HELLISH FORM - Deathless (2023) Cassette

Funeral doom is a genre that takes its name seriously, and Hellish Form takes funeral doom seriously. Deathless is the kind of record that makes an hour feel like a geological era, which is exactly the point.

Philadelphia's Hellish Form sit at the intersection of sludge and funeral doom where songs stretch past the point of comfort and riffs arrive like weather systems rather than musical phrases. This is dark aesthetic music in its most literal sense, the sort of thing that gets filed next to Mizmor and Slow and listened to alone, at volume, in the dark. The full-length format suits them, there is no rushing this, no skipping ahead.

Cassette full-length, 2023 pressing. US origin.

Fans of: Mizmor, Slow, Primitive Man