Stone Cadaver – Memento Mori, Motherfucker

 

Stone Cadaver – Memento Mori, Motherfucker
Gateway Music / Yog-Sothoth Records – 2021
Rock, Stoner, Doom, Metal, Proto, Sludge
Rated: *****

We’re so glad we missed the premiere of lead single Realm Of Darkness from the new album Memento Mori, Motherfucker by Danish trio Stone Cadaver. Why you ask? Cause the video accompanying that awesome track is pretty fucking cool, no, really fucking cool! But, I’ve always been of the mind that you should never put out the opening track of an album as a single. It can spoil some of the surprise, awe and astonishment. And you best be sure that you will be astonished and amazed once Stone Cadaver starts rolling on Memento Mori, Motherfucker. The ten ton heavy intro tones from opening The Reckoning sets the theme and gets you all riled up for the momentous chugging that leads you into the Realm Of Darkness. With those echoed lyrics, dragging you ever further and that pounding drum preparing to turn the stoner and proto doom into something even more twisted by the time the next track Doom Christ arrives. Imploring sludge and seventies metal, to build a cathedral of sound, an icy atmosphere permeates the track and this continues on into Whip The Sinners. We said it before, a church bell opening, can only herald evil and dangerous tidings; and so is the case with the faster paced Whip The Sinners. Instrumental Paean gives you a small moment of respite, a wonderful moment of natural contemplation ensues and when you almost arrive at a state of bliss Diseased Deceased starts it’s gritty slow groove; before galloping towards a brilliant (guitar solo) light at the end of the tunnel. Another instant of reprieve and redemption is offered with Fare The Well before nine minute long battleship closing track Murder Mountain begins its stormy reign of doom, unholy doom, doom of dread and proto metal! Memento Mori, Motherfucker is sheer perfection, with so much to discover, it’s a rich and almost unfathomable universe of heavy rock!

(Written by JK)

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