Album Reviews

Selfless Within Review 

Mourning Hours is a Bangladeshi atmospheric black metal project, which is led by multi-instrumentalist, Rubayet. OnSelfless Within, raw vocals and guitars pepper grim, ambient musical zone.

The gristly introduction,”Life,” does everything a strong album opener should do–it’s alarming and snatches attention. ”Hatefornication” is solidly upbeat, but “Withdrawal of God’s Seed” is rather experimental.

A strongly composed track, “Illumine,” increasingly funnels into raggedness; as the melancholy melody gels with the percussion, “Selfless Within” is a bit tougher. Making “To My Nothingness” unique, a tambourine can be heard along with a spoken part.

Selfless Within is on the cusp of being a thoroughly enjoyable work; during select moments, the record seems to toy around with concept instead of latching on to consistency, as heard on “To My Nothingness.” A few tracks follow successful approaches of this black metal style; “Illumine” and “Selfless Within” have familiar solemn atmospheres, directed by scratchy yet effective riffs. One fact remains significant: Selfless Within is captivating until the end.

Reviewed by  Metal Mellowdee

A Journey From Here To Nothingness/2012 CD Review

Mourning  Hours  is  a  1  man  band  from  Bangladesh  that  mixes  depressive  black  metal  with  atmospheric  doom  metal  and  this  is  a  review  of  their  2012  album  "From  Here  To  Nothingness"  which  was  released  by  III  Rooks  Records.
  Drums  programming  ranges  from  slow,  mid  paced  to  fast  beats,  while  the  synths  bring  a  very  dark  and  atmospheric  ambient  sound  to  the  music,  as  for  the  bass  playing  it  has  a  very  dark  tone  with  riffs  that  follow  the  riffing  that  is  coming  out  of  the  guitars.
  Rhythm  guitars  range  from  slow,  mid  paced  to  depressive  black  metal  riffs  that  are  very dark,  raw  and  primitive  sounding  with  a  good  amount  of  atmospheric  doom  metal  influences  being  thrown  into the  riffing  as  well  as  a  great  amount  of  melody  and  there  are  little  to  no  guitar  solos  or  leads  present  on  this  recording,  as  for  the  acoustic  guitars  when  they  are  utilized  they  bring  an  ethnic  and  old  music  sound  to  the  recording.  with  a  good  amount  of  finger  picking  and  full  chords.
  Vocals  are  mostly  high  pitched  and  distorted  sounding  black metal screams  along  with  a  brief  use  of  choirs,  clean  singing  and  whispered  vocals  as  well  as  some  spoken  word  parts,  while  the  lyrics  cover  dark  and  depressive  themes,  as  for  the  production  it  has  a  very  dark,  raw  and  primitive  sound  with  one  of  the  songs  being  long  and  epic  in  length.
  In  my  opinion  Mourning  Hours  are  a  very  great  sounding  hybrid  of  depressive  black  metal,  atmospheric  rock  and  doom  metal  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  this  musical  genre,  you  should  check  out  this  band.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "To  My  Nothingness"  and  "Vague  Visions  That  I'm  Having  Since  The  Day  I  Came  Here".  RECOMMENDED  BUY.  

Reviewed by OCCULTBLACKMETAL