Who Dies In Siberian Slush - Уроки Смирения (CD)

Who Dies In Siberian Slush – 2023 - "Уроки Смирения" - Solitude Productions

This is already the fifth full-length album from the Moscow band since 2003, which, as is easy to notice, applying analytics and mathematics, has chosen music that is slow, cold, gloomy, and at times—like on the 2023 album—simply terrifying. They are called Funeral Doom/Death Metal, but I am quite seriously planning to fine-tune this understanding and achieve at least some positive, even if not necessarily optimistic, result.
Well, we need to see at what stage we parted ways with the band to understand more clearly what the musicians have achieved now. The album Intimate Death Experience came out in 2018. And about it:
"Intimate Death Experience is not only a special stage in the band’s development, but also an attempt to reformat the boundaries of the style. The feeling it evokes when listened to is astonishing. It's clear that the band might deny it—claims of violating traditions and such."
Simply put, Who Dies In Siberian Slush has long been creating their own substyle of Funeral Doom/Death Metal, with an amazing neoclassical touch and brass section among the instruments.
I’ll admit right away that I’m listening to it in the highest quality, and in a vinyl mix. Last time, Who Dies In Siberian Slush seemed to start with art rock. But now the soul couldn’t bear it, and they started with Funeral Art Rock, which unfortunately was pushed deeper into the composition as soon as the funeral growls of the guitar appeared, and especially the dramatic vocals—impressive growling.
The guitar sounds create the impression that huge, wide, and high heavy slopes are constantly opening before you. And a low-frequency breeze blows from the speakers. This sensation is reinforced by the keyboards, which lamentingly sigh over their score. But when we passed the epicenter of "Together Invisibly" and crossed the bridge—a gigantic concrete bridge—everything extraneous was swept away.
The composition Omsk—yes, the reviewers and listeners already responding in the comments have had good things to say. I don't know if it’s a good thing for Omsk that a Funeral Doom/Death Metal band is writing songs about it. Time will tell.
We should look up an old interview with Who Dies In Siberian Slush; I think one of the guys talked about Omsk. Ah, here’s a quote: "At that time, my colleague and I drove from Omsk to Tyumen." They remembered driving through locusts, which made an awful creaking sound under the wheels. Perhaps this is when the musicians started playing Funeral Doom?
The band often features brass sections, and because of that, the light goes out for you, and the candles fade. Who Dies In Siberian Slush musicians have keenly sensed a kind of tremor in the earth that happens when, for example, a trombone plays. And this is a sign of an impending earthquake…
#Neoclassical_Funeral_Doom/Death_Metal – here’s your final tag for Lessons of Humility.
Recommendations? – Beyond the Edge. It begins with a tearful, hysterical guitar and mid-tempo pounding (don’t forget – Funeral Doom/Death Metal), which together grind everything around into fine flour, relentlessly destroying the gears of our time alarm clock—because the "mid-tempo" here tries to twist the head off attempts to slow the pace. This subtle struggle between “slow” and “faster” over six minutes finalizes this monstrous album.
P. S. One thing I would still like to point out to the authors of this album. The narration in the track "Where There is No Death" should have been spoken in Italian.