Déhà - Nethermost & Absolute Comfort (2025)

Just when you think that Déhà’s music can’t get any darker and gloomier, he drops a release like “Nethermost & Absolute Comfort”. Creating a very intense and enveloping atmosphere, this release is sorrowful and demoralizing to almost a whole new level. For over 72 minutes, we get a master class in excruciatingly slow and painful Atmospheric/Funeral Doom, that elevates the genre to whole new levels.

Opening with the 44-minute behemoth “Nethermost”, a track that makes all of Mournful Congregation’s 10+ or 20+ minute tracks seem like radio jingles, Déhà levels the human psyche with a mournful composition. This track delivers thunderous riffs, crafty tempo changes, alongside powerful atmospherics and haunting vocals, creating one of the most crushing songs we have heard in quite a while.

The second track in this release, “Absolute Comfort”, features a slightly faster pace with crushing growls that masterfully blend with harrowing clean vocals. This track seems a bit more punishing and powerful than the first one, while still creating that cavernous feeling of desperation that we have loved from Déhà’s previous releases. We can only wonder if such pieces could be ever played live while delivering their full effect.

As a whole, “Nethermost & Absolute Comfort” is definitely one of the most demoralizing and yet savagely beautiful releases we have heard over the years. If you are looking for a punishing release that creates a very tense and harrowing vibe, Déhà is your man to craft those types of releases and with his new album, the bar is pushed even further.

Label: Naturmacht Productions

Release: March 14th, 2025

Genre: Atmospheric/Funeral Doom Metal

Country: Belgium