Monday, September 8, 2025

Noctis - For Future's Past (2007)

 
Cost: $1.00

Quite morose and doomy progressive metal that primarily uses death metal style vox (as well as some black metal ones in "Eternity's Worth). The extremity of the vocals makes a world of difference to the sound, and beefs up the music considerably. They're certainly a doomy band, but I wouldn't say they have a particularly crushing guitar tone, and there's even a certain airiness to many of the riffs. But whenever those vocals kick in, everything seems way more doomdeath-like. There are also a fair amount of clean vocals, usually during the mellower, more progressive-forward parts. At these points, the music takes on somewhat of a (doom-adjacent) gothic metal character. Also really liked the "Nostalgia" instrumental, which is a great mix of ethereal and melancholic.

Nice little EP, glad I found it. 

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