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Genres: Death Metal, Doom
Label: Candlelight Records

Fuck I love doom, as anyone who’s read this site for awhile can tell you. My favorite album of all time is doom, and it spawned half of the name of the label that Typhon and I run together (Deathless Reality Records). My fourth favorite album of all time is doom too, and now, a new favorite is discovered.
October Tide is a band with tons of history, and only three albums. They formed during a short break-up of Katatonia, founded by Frederik Norrman and Jonas Renske, and they’ve barely done interviews or played live, only keeping a low profile and achieving a real cult status in the underground. And now they’ve released a new album with Candlelight, and it’s awesome.
Musically, it’s very doomy, melancholic and a little bit just plain depressing. But it’s the vocals that really take the front for me. Deep, throaty death/doom vocals, courtesy of Tobias Netzell. It’s perfect for fans of Griftegård, Draconian, and Paradise Lost.
9.5 out of 10.

October Tide on MySpace.

Genre: Progressive Death Metal
Label: Independent

Dethrone the Sovereign sent me this EP forever ago, and it sat on my desk for a couple days, then moved into my CD player for a couple days more. I couldn’t get enough of this disc when I first heard it. It was something I had not heard before, a nice mix of death metal with tons of proggy elements and some black metal touches gracing the edges of it all.
These young Utah dudes are playing tons of shows lately too, getting their names out there, getting some
recognition, and because of that and this EP, hopefully you’ll see them on Deathless Reality Records in the very near future.
10 out of 10.

Dethrone the Sovereign on MySpace.