MISERY'S OMEN Hope Dies (2008) CD

Melbourne has quietly produced some of the most punishing black and doom metal on the planet, and MISERY'S OMEN sit at that intersection with a kind of grim authority that most bands spend careers chasing. Hope Dies is not a comfortable record. It is not meant to be.

Released in 2008, this is Australian black/doom metal at its most suffocating, drawing from the slow-death weight of traditional doom and the corrosive atmosphere of second-wave black metal in equal measure. The company it keeps says everything: ST VITUS's funeral drag, the war metal savagery of ABOMINATOR, the cavernous brutality of CEMETERY URN. MISERY'S OMEN belong in that conversation without apology. A significant record in the Australian underground, and one that doesn't show up on shelves often.

CD format. Australian release, 2008.

Fans of: ST VITUS, ABOMINATOR, ESKHATON, CEMETERY URN