It's been a long wait since the release of A Time To Mourn, the third album from Paramæcium. Finally you can get Echoes From The Ground, a seven song album with sorrowful, depressive doom metal. This disc is a concept album based on Henry Barclay, a young Englishman who sought evidence of the historic accuracy of his faith in 1864. In the opening track, Night Fears Morning, Barclay travels to Palestine. In this song you can hear singer Andrew Tompkins using clean vocals. In more songs you can hear clean vocals, besides grunts. But in some of the songs there's also a soprano (Tracy Bourne). Violin was added to give the music even a more plaintive sound. Paramæcium delivers with Echoes From The Ground another interesting doom metal piece. The depressive atmosphere probably won't appeal to many people, nor the slow tempo and the monotonous riffs. Yet these elements make the record likable to me. Great music when you're in a depressive mood.
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