Published: March 15, 2016

Sometimes a bit of gothic/doom can be just what’s needed to lift the spirits. Delving headlong into some more melancholic material and hearing the gorgeous melodies and atmosphere gives the best in the genre their ability to strike a chord with followers. Greece’s own Immensity has both the sound (and the fitting name) seemingly mastered on their debut, The Isolation Splendour.

While Immensity’s influences run through the usual sus...

Published: March 11, 2016

When I’m about to review an album, regardless what I already know about the band, what catches my attention in the first place and drives me to a cautious listening, is the album’s name. Usually that comes with the visual suggestion given by the cover art; matching together they are supposed to hand you a scenery beyond words and before the music. In the digital era this might seem an oddity, but the way a band represents a...

Published: March 9, 2016

All one has to do is take a peek at the track listing before playing this to get an understanding of the enormity and scope they are about to undertake.

Epic is a very simple way to express only a small portion of what Immensity offer. Much like an eager to please pizza delivery guy they bring so much more to the doorstep, in this case our ears.

It would be very easy for me to merely mention Immensity’s similarity to other act...

Published: March 7, 2016

Immensity  are  a  band  from  Greece  that  plays  an  atmospheric  form  of  doom/death  metal  with  some  funeral  and  progressive  touches  and  this  is  a  review  of  their  2016 album  "The  Isolation  Splendour"  which  was  released  as  a  joitn  effort  between  Hypnotic  Dirge  Records  and  Solitude  Productions.

 Acoustic  guitar  playing  starts  off  the  album  along  with  some  symphonic  keyboards  a  ...

Published: March 8, 2016

2009 erblickten IMMENSITY im griechischen Athen das Licht der Welt, um sich voll und ganz dem deathigen Doom Metal hinzugeben. Jetzt, fast sechs Jahre, eine EP und ein Line-up-Wechsel später erscheint nun der erste Longplayer unter dem Titel „The Isolation Splendour“. Dabei ist der Titel durchaus Programm, denn der düsteren Isolation wird in ihrer ganzen Herrlichkeit ein eindrucksvolles Denkmal gesetzt.

Düstere, riffige Härte ...