There’s something about the unfathomable heaviness of funeral doom that will always allure me to its depths. Whether it’s simply the heaviness itself or the cavernous deeps with which is effortlessly carves out with every band that utilizes it, I’ll never know as I just find immense joy at falling into its reaches. Mesmur was one of the first bands that I heard of the style when I first started to foray into the unforgiving realm of funeral doom, and it’s with their follow-up that they stay very much in line with their last record but with a few tweaks here and there to show us that they have certainly improved as a unit.

I’ve always enjoyed seeing people who aren’t familiar with the style start to complain when they see an album of the style has “only” four tracks to call its own without even seeing the godly length of each of the songs that show where the style really shines when put together with everything else. Mesmur holds true to such a staple of funeral doom with only four songs that “Terrene” claims, and it’s with the same impressive stretches that each song takes over that we see this band work the magic that they’ve been honing for a good few years now. There isn’t much with the reaches of this album that can be considered wildly different from what we’ve seen in the style before, but where Mesmur doesn’t display a whole lot of change they, instead, display a grand understanding of the style such that it wouldn’t be far off to consider their grip over the style close to that of masters. Each of the tracks are as wide as they are deep, heavy as they are toxic in nature, monolithic as they are gripping, and as grand as they are punishing! Mesmur hit every nail right on the head when crafting “Terrene” as it hits all the vital notes that a funeral doom work should, and they provide the overall quality of this album is absolute heaps that just keep on giving until that final note!

I still hold true to the idea that I don’t listen to as much funeral doom as I would like, and it’s because of bands like Mesmur that I’ll always find myself crawling back to the style because of how truly exquisite the style can become when put in the right hands. Each moment of “Terrene” seems catered for every fan of the style, and I will definitely be returning to this work time and again because there’s some dark magic at work here that makes what’s on display nigh on irresistible.

“Terrene” releases on November 29th via Solitude Productions!

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