![]() ![]() While FS’ bass continues to thunder away and IM’s deep, guttural roar blazes forth just as it did before, it feels like the Karnstein samples have pulled one of Tumulation’s fangs. Curiously, there are then fairly lengthy samples from Hammer Films’ vampire series The Karnstein Trilogy across “Sterilizing Wounds” and “Bound to the Rakasha,” which subtly change the mood of the record. As fourth track “Rorschach” opens with delicately eerie synth sounds, a series of sampled vocals intoning “your blood will be ours,” and variations on that, is introduced. This is the story of the first third of Haunted Funeral Creations but then, something weird happens. At other moments, it feels like the whole album is teetering faster toward its own implosion, as a more death metal edge enters the fray (“Rites of Forgotten Misery”). Saturated with hulking, swampy menace, Haunted Funeral Creations sounds like it’s actually crumbling under the weight of its owns crushing riffs, just about held together by occasional moments of melody in the guitar leads of FS (see the back third of “Shattered under the Eclipse,” for example). And that is very, very clear from the first rumbling notes of opener “Emergent Chaos Spirals.” Think early Paradise Lost, with a healthy dose of both Hooded Menace and Of Terror and the Supernatural-era Temple of Void. ![]() There’s nothing overly complex or flashy about it. Tumulation’s offering is quite simple: they play down-tuned, sludgy death doom. What then have they conjured on their debut, Haunted Funeral Creations? Perhaps that explains the change in styles or maybe the change in styles necessitated the line-up swaps because Tumulation has largely abandoned the OSDM stable. In their guise as Tumulation, however, the guys have all swapped roles, so WS, for example, handles drums here but is on vox, guitar and bass for Conjureth. Both Conjureth albums to date have secured solid reviews from our own Kenstrosity and indeed their most recent effort, The Parasitic Chambers, only came out in January. San Diego, California’s Tumulation is a trio featuring three-quarters of Conjureth, all of whom have also played in Ghoulgotha and others, or, in the case of drummer WS, about two dozen others. ![]()
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