Invisible Radiance: Stagwounder’s first release available for streaming here.
This band is advertised as blackened doom metal and it
manages to be the worst of both worlds. Turning this on is like paying to sleep
with a woman who is promised to be an exotic beauty and amazing lover, only to
find that she has a weird face and her “pleasure”, while inventive, makes you
fall asleep. When it’s all said and done you did get to sleep with her. But what
was the point?
Stagwounder sound like a generic black metal band that
occasionally play a slow part. Unfortunately they aren’t even good as far as
generic black metal bands go. The pace they set due to their doom tag means
they never quite hit a speed that would satisfy a black metal fan. If you treat
them as a doom metal band they fare even worse. They lack the heaviness that
defines the genre. Doom metal without a punch is not Doom Metal worth listening
to.
At their best Stagwounder sounds like they are imitating
Skeletonwitch. Albeit a Skeletonwitch that does not seem to be capable of
technical riffing and are extremely boring, though they don’t seem to be able
to sound like that for more than a few seconds before they descend back
into what may be the most lackluster
metal I’ve ever been subjected to without being outright bad. Worse still they
can’t even manage to do it on every song. Literally. If I hadn’t been walking
the entirety of this album, I would have fallen asleep.
Hopefully if this band sticks around they can manage to
either focus on one of their genres or, as unlikely as it may be, find a
balance between them that is worth listening to. Until then, I wouldn’t say
it’s bad. It’s just not worth the time.
Sagecutioner
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