One of two Ghasts floating around, this is the Welsh band on Todestrieb who released an excellent disc a while back called May The Curse Bind that's recommended listening for anyone into grim, blackened doom metal. That album was top-notch sludgy horror, the black riffs bathed in crushing syrupy tempos and utterly bleak atmosphere, hints of melody creeping through the crawling graveyard doom, not so much true doom as it was the sound of ugly, fly struck black metal being slowed down into gnarled, ghoulish treacle. And it's fucking great. We've been looking forward to hearing more from this band over the past two years, and now we finally have their latest slab of necrotic slime, the two song disc Terrible Cemetery.

The disc begins with "O Akhea Rheon", a super heavy bass beginning to drag the song into a pit of plodding blackened doom, the sound absolutely miserable and lumbering, screeching vocals echoing off of crumbling crypts, the voice high and psychotic, sort of Silencer-esque and twisted enough to make our blood run cold. Within this lurching sludgy blackness, we're also hearing a slight post punk influence in the grim guitar melody and that throbbing bass, then it suddenly bursts into chaotic speed, the drums flying between messy blast beats and a deformed black waltz. The song begins to change shape into a swarm of icy old school black metal, then everything drops out for moment leaving just the grinding bass, and the band suddenly veers off again, this time into ferocious blackened thrash, a hypnotic riff matched with a killer malevolent guitar lead, buzzing and swarming and exceedingly sinister.

The second song is the title track, and it takes up most of the disc with a twenty-plus minute sprawl of frantic morbid doom, opening with a morose creeping dirge of droning bass and slow, doom-laden drums that lumber beneath layers of miserable guitar melody and howling schizoid vocals, which now sound even weirder and more freaked out than before, as if that was possible; the music gets more melodic as it goes on, turning into a sorrowful blackened dirge, the feeling growing more desperate, finally blasting off into thrashing black metal a good twelve minutes into it, a single moving riff repeating over and over the blasting drums, building into a hypnotic, melancholic swarm, until finally the band begins to slows down over the course of the song from this blast of blackened fury, dropping further and further into a pounding cavernous groove formed from a majestic minor key riff, an emotionally overwrought melody sunken into the blackened, evil dirge, ending this in lachrymose, soul-crushing heaviness.