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Tracks
Side 1:
1. Fleeting Are The Days Of Man (5:35)
2. Summer's Isle, Including Caravan (10:13)
3. Desertshore (7:01)
Tracks Side 2:
1. The Sleeper, Including Being Is More Than Life
(19:49)
A Finnish progressive doom trio, named after a King
Crimson song, signed to the mighty Svart records? These three factors fulfil
some of my key requirements for a great record and are enough to give me
sky-high expectations of Garden of Worm’s second album “Idle Stones”. Within a
couple of listens I felt that these expectations had been met, but in a way I
totally wasn’t expecting.
The whole retro occult doom vibe is incredibly
popular at the moment so I had some minor misgivings before listening to “Idle
Stones” that maybe Garden of Worm would be another hollow band jumping on the
bandwagon. Thankfully these doubts proved to be completely unfounded as the band
have crafted something very odd and captivating here.
Managing to be
heavy without relying on mountains of distortion, the entire album has a hazy,
nocturnal atmosphere evocative of the strangeness of the early hours when night
is turning into morning but darkness still prevails. Opener “Fleeting are the
Days of Man” begins proceedings in relatively brief and conventional fashion,
sounding like a drowsy, slightly less Sabbath-fixated Witchcraft. The band then
start to voyage into weirder more progressive territory with the ten minutes of
“Summer’s Isle”. Covering dark, folk-tinged rock, driving, up-tempo riffing and
passages of ecstatic, freeform psychedelic rock it makes for quite a ride.
Although the traditional progressive elements of long songs covering different
sections, moods and tempos are all present here, Garden of Worm’s execution
makes them sound worlds apart from what you would expect. There is no pomp here;
the overall sound is very lean and raw, favouring untamed improvisational
soloing that teeters on the edge of chaos over virtuoso
excess.
“Desertshore” follows and brings to mind the spaced-out, hard
rock of the massively underrated Virginia trio, Pontiak, setting the scene for
the massive 20 minute finale of “The Sleeper including Being Is More Than Life”
(Maximum prog points for that title too). Opening with the tried and tested doom
staple of a distant tolling bell, the band lurch into an eerie, funereal dirge
reminiscent of Pallbearer’s “Foreigner” stripped of its volume but with its
otherworldly atmosphere amplified.
“Idle Stones” is a highly impressive
release from Garden of Worm, managing to sound retro while bringing something
vital and modern to create something quite unique. This is something few bands
manage to pull off and should hopefully see them win an army of converts in
2015. ( ) (Words by Charlie Butler/thesludgelord.blogspot.de)
SJ. Harju -
Vocals, Bass
JM. Suvanto - Drums
EJ. Taipale - Guitars, Vocals
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