{"id":99810,"date":"2020-02-17T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T17:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/?p=99810"},"modified":"2020-02-17T10:51:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T16:51:06","slug":"review-drown-subaqueous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/review-drown-subaqueous\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Drown – Subaqueous<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Man, no one has sounded the depths of your being;
\nO Sea, no person knows your most hidden riches,
\nSo zealously do you keep your secrets!”<\/p>\n

Subaqueous<\/em>, the second album from Markov Soroka’s one-man funeral doom project Drown<\/strong>, finds our Ukrainian hero delving further into the deep in search of sorrowful, crushing oceanic pressure. Like the genre as a whole, it won’t hold everyone’s attention. But for those willing to plumb its depths, the rewards are great. The album is a step up in every way from his 2014 debut, Unsleep<\/em>. In musicianship, songwriting, and production, Soroka has improved significantly in the last six years, and Subaqueous\u00a0<\/em>beautifully strides funeral doom’s line between moments of gliding, mournful melody and pounding despair. Lacking traditional verse-chorus structure, Soroka’s songs for\u00a0Subaqueous<\/em> ebb and flow, themes emerging from the murk at a snail’s pace. Where Unsleep<\/em>‘s clean melodic guitars and downtuned riffs clashed uncomfortably with each other, on this outing Soroka has increased his mastery over these elements, combining them precisely to maximize the impact of both. Consisting solely of two lengthy songs (20+ minutes each), Subaqueous<\/em> is an extended suite that doesn’t wander far from the funeral doom formula while still remaining a fresh, engaging listen.<\/p>\n