The glory of doom is something that truly doesn’t have any bounds, does it? It’s one of the most diverse styles in all of metal with it holding an essential place amongst other contemporary styles that we also find ourselves steeped in constantly, but when I come around to a new tag that’s not like anything I’ve seen before I truly wonder what the scene had created next. “Rural” is far from a word that I expected to ever see paired alongside doom, but it’s on their eponymous debut that Tomorr makes it feel like a very well fleshed out concept.

This is not some grand work of doom coming together yet again with sludge metal in order to bring us something that cannot be considered anything other than monolithic nor is it an album that shows tremendously unforgiving power in a way that leaves the mind wondering what comes next. Rather, what Tomorr presents us with is something that is rugged in its more purposely attractive moments and downright dirty in basically every other instance throughout these 48 minutes, and it’s fucking awesome! While the riffs may not be the sort of thing that people are always looking for out of the next need-to-know doom album of the week or whatever, there’s no way to deny that all of that which Tomorr brings forth when it comes to the riffage factor is nothing something that should be overlooked about this album whether you’re more into the instrumental introduction, 16-minute finale, or the hypnotism of “Vargmal” which all immediately allow this debut to become something overflowing with flavor. It’s a special flavor of down to Earth nastiness that there are plenty of albums that attempt to bring forth such a sound, but it often comes across too polished or feeling far too intentional (think along the lines of a movie trying to be so bad that it’s good, but you can see the effort and the gloss behind it all), but it’s here that Tomorr does it so naturally that it’s downright bewildering to experience just once with every subsequent listen showing us more and more how well they do it on the very first go around. If that isn’t a sign of a band worthy of at least a mention, then I don’t know what is.

With their first step forward and their first body of work out in the world for all of us to experience, I find it hard to sit here and contemplate about calling this self-titled effort anything other than beard-strokingly interesting at the very least. Tomorr may not be as bombastic or monolithic as other contemporary acts, but they do not let that stop them for even a second as it’s here that we see the act put their best effort forward that they could muster at this time, and I cannot wait to see what they can dish out on the second go for it’s sure to be something more than worth diving into over and over again.

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