Chalice of Suffering - Lost Eternally - CD

The opening track, ‘In The Mist of Once Was’, stands out particularly through the use of bagpipes. That might be commonplace with your run of the mill pagan folk metal band, but it is quite rare on death doom. Luckily, it won’t exactly have you frolicking about the campfire in your kilt, but rather enhances the funereal atmosphere.

It is a record that has clearly been made with a great love for the genre. It doesn’t try to go where no one has gone before like Bell Witch or drench itself in the bleakest of desperation like Ataraxie or Evoken, but instead choose a path of exquisitely crafted, lovelorn litanies.