This is 1993, right? Black metal was on high order. Debut album, World of Myths, had everything most bands of the day didn’t. Sweden’s Crypt of Kerberos were a one and done miracle. Plus, the transitions, where smooth, are sublime.ģ. Production-wise, it’s rough, but Sergey Kalachyov and Sergey Dmitriev know their way around a blue melody or two. As for “Southern Calm Waters”, this little gem is off Mental Home’s hard-to-find debut, Vale. They signed to Century Media, got all Angel Rat, and the world suddenly said, “Mental Home?!…We’re not interested!” The group are still active, having released the Ugra album in 2012. Russian atmospheric death metallers Mental Home had a brief rise to fame in the late ’90s with their Black Art album. Certainly, Atten Ash are for fans of Slumber, Woccon, October Tide, and Daylight Dies, where guitarist Barre Gambling has moonlighted over four great releases. Now signed to Canada’s Hypnotic Dirge, Atten Ash are likely to see more earballs on the reissue. The group unleashed debut album, The Hourglass, independently in 2012. North Carolina’s Atten Ash aren’t the most visible of the picks today, but don’t let their obscurity stop you from imbibing in some of the finest atmospheric death to ever come out of the states. We’re more interesting in the journey itself, the way these songs transport back to times that probably never happened, but they’re as real as today. Now, there’s a fine line between atmospheric death and atmospheric doom/death (or death/doom), but we’re not terribly interested in delineating such a line today. To start the quest to spaces unknown, Decibel has compiled five killer atmospheric death metal songs to take you right into the weekend. We need to feel as if we’re on another planet, in another world, some place not where we are now. Our days can’t always be filled with blastbeats, dirty riffs, and socio-politico lyrics.
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