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Pantheïst - Amartia
Reviewed by AJ Blisten in 5/18/2005
Some doom projects starts out as one-man projects. Some of them turn into bands and PANTHEÏST from UK is one of them.
PANTHEÏST was originally a one-man project from the start in 2000, but it didn’t take long before Kostas filled up the vacant positions with three more musicians and the band PANTHEÏST was born.
Finnish label Firefox saw the potential in this band and signed a deal with them and “Amartia” is the band’s second offering. And this is an album I have enjoyed listening to more and more recently. The reason is plain and simple; PANTHEÏST represents the sort of doom metal I can’t get enough of, and the fact that that the sound and production is top notch is definitely not a drawback either.
This band delivers some of the best funeral doom songs I’ve heard in quite a while and they really puts me in the right mood and make me shut the door to the real world.
The songs goes slow as expected from a band like this, but there are a lot more to the music from this brilliant quartet that I would dare to expect. What you get here is lots of dynamic creativity within a true and genuine funeral doom frame. PANTHEÏST doesn’t compromise their commitment and obvious love for the genre simultaneously as they expand the frames in a delicate murky and very atmospheric way.
PANTEHEÏST is less claustrophobic than for instance Finnish veterans Skeptism, even though the atmosphere and use of keys doesn’t differ much. But the sound on “Amartia” is a lot better and a number of surprising moments and elements in their songs make PANTHEÏST more interesting to listen to than the most recent Skreptism releases.
I haven’t read and analyzed the lyrics thoroughly, but the songs titles seems to deal with the seven deadly sins, which reminds me of one of my all time favorite movies, “Seven”, by the way…
It’s not a deadly sin to check out this CD. If you don’t… well, don’t blame me…
As for me, I really like this record a lot and I recommend it without reservation to all doom fans out there.
If you don’t like it, you’re definitely not into doom metal at all!
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