Rozamov - This Mortal Road (Battleground Records, Dullest Records)
Release date : March 3rd, 2017
After a
series of EPs and 7’’ releases, Rozamov
formed in Boston in 2011, are throwing Doom Metal lines and Neurosis like monolith songs. In fact,
the similarity with the legendary Oakland band even goes into the vocals that
are a shared between Tom Corino (also bass) and Matt Iacovelli (also guitars
and piano).
Those five
songs of Doom Metal are spanned over forty minutes and it lets the time to the
songs to develop and progress with melody laded and crushing Doom. In the
recent years Doom Metal has exploded and clones of clones have appeared and disappeared.
Rozamov is just a step away from being
Neurosis or Sleep clones and
their music is interesting and despite the flat vocals I believe that they can
eventually be like Isis (the band)
and grow away from their musical influences.
This Mortal Road shows signs of brilliant of detention
in their means and no one seems to be stepping on another one’s toes. There is
mixed information on the drums for the band and the album but I believe it was
performed by Will Hendrix on the album but since then the permanent player is
Jeff Landry. Whoever did the drums did an amazing job of simplicity in
complexity. Sometimes the hardest drum parts are the most simple and I think
that the music Rozamov has composed
for This Mortal Road isn’t that
simple as it seems. Playing in simplicity and in long songs needs a control and
a certain balance between performance and creativity.
Finally, of
all the Doom metal and Sludge bands that were created in the later years Rozamov is one to take seriously and
expect some quality releases à la Pallbearer
and Khemmis in the years to come.
7.0
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