It’s the weekend! What better way to get it started than with the latest installment of “Funeral Doom Friday”. This weekly column looks to shed some light onto some of the darkest, most depressing, and discordant metal out there. Funeral Doom stems from the deepest depths of Death-Doom and Dirge music. Each week, the goal is to highlight some of the newest music or rediscover classic works from some of the earliest bands and originators such as Australia’s Mournful Congregation, United States’s Evoken, UK’s Esoteric and the Finnish Thergothon. Feel free to share your opinions and suggestions in the comments!
Typically, when Metal in the state of Georgia is discussed it is usually about the state's prolific sludge scene. Athens' Harvey Milk, Atlanta's Mastodon, Savannah's Baroness, Kylesa, and Black Tusk are all famous bands for the amount of quality albums they have put out over the years. Yet, an unfortunate side effect is that the Peach State gets pigeonholed into a murky stereotype. Much more Metal exists in the state, as one would expect. Some bands take that sludge ideology and fuse it into their music. Today's feature hails from Atlanta and plays a crippling blend of Funeral Doom and sludgy Drone. The trio that comprises Lost Hours roars with malice and nihilism, and it has never been more clear than on their newest EP, III.
The latest, two-song effort from Lost Hours is, as construed from its name, the group's third release since their formation in 2013. Former track, "Gently Before She Dies" runs roughly 11 minutes while the latter track, "Your Vice is A Locked Room" nears 17 minutes. The two combined build walls of insurmountable, droning guitar and noise played by H. that crumble into waves of sludgy riffs and torrential drums, orchestrated by F. Vocalist, E, delivers an almost deadly or blackened array of shouts and screams (with some assistance from H.) Digesting all of these motifs, III packs a lot into its short runtime. It sort of makes me wish Lost Hours turned this into a full-length LP!
III was independently released back on the 18th, but if you like what you are hearing you can purchase a digital copy or preorder a cassette through their Bandcamp page. Lost Hours' other albums are also available to listen to, which is well worth the time.
