One of our patrons over at Patreon surprised us today with a fantastic release - featuring our samples. Listen to it here: https://doomchoir.bandcamp.com/album/a-beautiful-fire-scorch-our-hands
I'm quickly going off on a happy rant. I don't want this post to be about myself, but I have to write this. When I first started doing these sample packs and MIDI-grooves, I only had one goal in mind: "Make it useful". I don't do this for monetary gain, obviously since they are all for free if you want to. My passion is music, and I want to provide musicians with as much tools as possible. So when people send me stuff like this, where our shit clearly comes to use - it makes me so happy. So please people, keep sending stuff you create. I genuinely want to hear them, and shine some well deserved spotlight on them. Rant over.
So, The Choir is the brain child of music student Thaian Oliveira. The EP "A Beautiful Fire Scorch Our Hands" will be unleashed upon the world this friday.
I'm going to take the liberty to say that The Choir is a great mix between Doom and Black metal. The guitars in particular draw fond memories of Norwegian and Swedish black metal legends of the past.
1. It Crawls: A seven minute trip down the ladder. The production is absolutely stellar for this kind of music. It's deep, ambient and ominous. I listen to black metal to feel scared and creeped out, and this definately does the trick. Around the 3-minute mark the song drastically changes into a chaotic dissonance with evil undertones. It all ends in a blasting outro with genuinely creepy soundscapes.
2. Earthen Rot: The songs starts by tickeling your senses. Literally, it kicked off my fight or flight responses. I blasted this with full volume in my headset, but I could feel the bass in my chest. It proceeds to doom the living fuck out of me with a hard hitting groove and scary chord progressions. Again this song changes tonally and flows into a nightmarish crescendo.
3. The One Reborn: At 8:27, it's an epic journey through absolute insanity. The haunting intri flows into a verse, and the song changes structure and tone yet again. The latter half of the song is absolute chaos in the best way possible.
This is a very competent effort. I love everything about it, especially what I think makes black metal so great - the atmosphere. I felt genuinely scared at times. Thaian Oliveira, you have a new fan.
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