Mourners Lament - A Grey Farewell (2024)

Punishing the listener with a gargantuan slab of Doom, today we have Death/Doom outfit Mourners Lament, all the way from Chile, with their latest full-length release “A Grey Farewell”. With over 64 minutes of soul crushing music, this release delivers six tracks filled with ravaging riffs, inhuman growls, and a very mournful pace. For fans of Mourning Beloveth, Shape of Despair, Skepticism, My Dying Bride, this release is packed with sorrow and melody from start to finish.

Opening with the moody “Towards Abandonment”, we get mournful guitars alongside solemn keyboards building up a very fragile and engaging momentum. With some solid slower interludes, weeping guitar leads, and excellent clean vocals, we got a nice vibe of early Lacrimas Profundere. Next up, we have a 13-minute onslaught of even more melancholy and elegant atmospheric arrangements, perfectly paired with pummeling harsh vocals and masterful tempo changes.

As “Ocaso” and “The Clear Distance” establish the band’s knack for creating very cathartic songs with excellent build ups, it is “In A White Room”, where we get a very distinctive Clouds vibe thanks to masterful melodic passages and some woeful moments. The closer “Mass Eulogy” perfectly closes this release with its dramatic Cello arrangements and powerful riffs, piecing together one of the best songs of this release.

Overall, “A Grey Farewell” is one hell of a Death/Doom Metal release and Personal Records has a great find with Mourners Lament. This album is masterfully crafted to deliver waves of melancholy and pain, and excels at doing so with its crystal clear production and very well arranged elements. If you are looking for a crushing release filled with your favorite staples of the genre, look no further and get a copy of this excellent release.

Label: Personal Records

Release: August 3rd, 2024

Genre: Death/Doom Metal

Country: Chile