Now availble on vinyl, and the only version available since the CD went out of print.

Second full length album from Oakland's doomcrust veterans (featuring members of Weakling, Dystopia, Skaven, and Amber ASylum) contains only two tracks: the first, 'A Famine', trudges on a funeral march for 22 minutes; the second, 'Rite Of Finality', weighs in at an oppressive 50 minutes in length. You just can't rush the sort of glacial, scorched-earth lamentations that these guys throw down. Total trance inducing doom, combining the gloomiest Finnish funeral doom metal (a la Skepticism, Swallow The Sun, Thergothon) with a similiar brand of tectonic deathcrust peddled by Asunder's Japanese tour buddies Corrupted, and an ability to construct amazingly expressive heartrending melodies. 'A Famine' balances the crushingly slow riffage, gutteral deathmetal vocals and Gregorian like chanting with majestic, sorrowful twin guitar harmonies, elegant cello strains performed by Jackie Perez-Gratz (whom you might also know from Amber ASylum) and heavy armageddon poetry ("calming storms still incessant void looms on/vibrant stream without origin without end"); 'Rite' begins as a beautifully gloomy instrumental played on acoustic guitars, cello, almost jazzy in a way, until the heavy cathedral tones of the guitars appear in the distance and the song slows to a saurian crawl, winding through rusted corridors of funereal deathdoom, bottoming out into a low, sublime drone that reaches nearly inaudible levels of ambience for over half an hour as the song creeps to a shadowy, ghoulish close. Awesome atmospheric doom! In a full color jacket with rad artwork from David D'Andrea.