3RD AND THE MORTAL, (The) In This Room (1997) CD

Norwegian doom gone somewhere stranger.

The 3rd and the Mortal started out in the Trondheim doom scene, then spent the nineties dismantling it. In This Room, their third album, pushes furthest from metal of anything from their early run, trading crushing riffs for loops, treated guitars, Wurlitzer and Ann-Mari Edvardsen's otherworldly voice. It was her last album with the band, and it sounds like a farewell: hushed, experimental and deeply melancholy. For anyone who loves the moment gothic doom started bleeding into trip-hop and art rock. Recorded in Trondheim and released through Voices of Wonder, it sits between the band's acclaimed Painting on Glass and the later Memoirs, and rewards patient, late-night listening with headphones and the lights off.

Format: CD
Genre: Experimental rock, gothic doom
Original release: 1997
Country: Norway

Tracklist:
01. Stream
02. Monody
03. So Pure
04. The Wooden Lodge
05. Sophisticated Vampires
06. Harvest
07. Did You
08. Myriad of Peep-Holes
09. Sort of Invisible
10. A Touch of...
11. Hollow
12. The Barge
13. Sleep

Fans of: The Gathering, Anathema, Theatre of Tragedy, Ulver, Madder Mortem.