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NIGHT MUST FALL (Fin): "Dissonance of Thoughts" CD
(Rusty Crowbar Records)
I have fond memories of the debut album, which emerged in 2005 on the appropriately named Endless Desperation record label. "Dissonance of Thought" reaches us via an equally obscure label, who, under strict instructions from the band, have made sure to leave out any information about both band and label from the accompanying artwork. The music is classic Finnish misery: Funeral Doom of the deepest, darkest, rawest kind, with a pure underground feel and a sense of absolute misanthropic obscurity (NIGHT MUST FALL make it a point to maintain a MySpace page with zero friends). What makes this entity better than some other bands in this genre, even bigger ones on bigger labels and with bigger recording budgets, is the fact that NIGHT MUST FALL has a superior sense of melody, which enables them to keep the listener hypnotised and enveloped in an oppressive atmosphere, despite the glacial tempos and tenebrous rumble. Of particular interest here is what appears to be, yet is not really, a golden era BETHLEHEM cover (the mid-to-late 1990s), which sounds somewhat improvised and appears all of a sudden, in the middle of a song. If you collect Funeral Doom and enjoy owning albums by the most obscure, elusive, invisible, uncommercial, and yet brilliant and clinically depressed artists, released by one of the myriad of bedroom labels that appear and disappear in the blink of an eye, after only a few releases, never to be heard of again, you will find suitable material here to kill the joy of Christmas until next year. Reviewed by AK-47.
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