Once again, back in print after being unavailable for more than a year...
Monstrous, heavy-as-lead death/doom debut full length from members of Weakling, Dystopia, and Skaven! A Clarion Call is ridiculously epic, with 3 songs that range from 12 to 15 minutes each. This stuff is really atmospheric, but even with the cello and droning chant-like singing that mingles with demonic growls, this is some of the heaviest doom you could want. Asunder also has a great melodic element with vast,catchy dirge-riffs and leads, but never falls into "cheesy" territory like so many epic doom bands do...it's all class, albeit brutally slow and crushing. The whole album sounds appropriately gigantic thanks to the production of the always-reliable Billy Anderson (Weedeater, Swans). A Clarion Call is a terrific debut, and perfectly combines early UK melodic death/doom, Thergothen / Skepticism style funeral dirge, Disembowelment -esque blackness, and the classic doom of Pentagram and Saint Vitus. Dismal, mournful, menacing, and catchy as hell!