Cavern Deep – Breach

 

 

Cavern Deep – Breach
Bonebag Records – 2023
Metal, Doom, Stoner, Psych
Rated: ****

They have the art of concept art down to an art and tattooed across their heart! Their debut album took you down with them towards the heart of darkness in a deep and perilous mountain, to search out the remnants of a lost civilization. They provided an album long psychedelic video for it a little while after, yes sir, a video 42 minutes long, covering the entire album, journey, and adventure. And now, Cavern Deep is back with the follow-up to that dangerous spelunker adventure. And not just a follow-up, a continuation, the sequel, part two, and it’s called Breach! So, once more… The cavernous doom provided by the three Swedes comes in six tracks and a seventh bonus track. The Attuning single featuring Thomas V Jäger from Monolord was released in December 2022 and actually serves as a bridge between the first album and the new one, acts as the bonus track and serves as a hairpin to start the journey all over again. Which you will undoubtedly do, for the damp and dripping doom, not only paints you a story, and provides the hollowed atmosphere, it also sets the mood and sends the right kind of shivers up your spine. The theatrics involved serve to lift the music up beyond all that’s doom and brings it into the light of something almost symphonic or operatic. Seeing something like this performed in places like Minack Theatre, in Penzance, England would be the dream. A dream with little hope of coming to fruition, I fear. So, for now, you will have to be contend with dreaming the story, which will remain mournful and without much hope as well. And even though through the ending track of The Pulse, with guitar work and keys that seem to let in some light, you will feel some peace come over you. There seems to be nothing left. Music that seems to perfectly translate dissolution. And Breach does that over and over again. The other track featuring Susie McMullan from Brume, Primordial Basin for instance, starts with a definite view over the underground basin, before the terror breaks loose, and rage commences. Both aspects of the story, effortlessly interpreted. Brilliant story, strong compositions, beautiful production, stunning vocals and instrumentation, the band delivered an amazing debut, but grows immeasurably on their second album. Hats off!

(Written by JK)

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