The biography I received from this band ends with ‘review it or burn in Hell’. I’ve faced Hell a couple of times, figuratively, but since I am not that eager to burn out there (it’s way too hot for my sensitive skin…), please find the review right here…
Doomentor are a somewhat mysterious band (I have no idea who the members behind this act are), performing exclusively, as they call it themselves, Black Occult Imperial Doom Metal. …Sounds good, but what does it mean? And is it a correct description anyway?
Well, actually I guess it does fit. There are six tracks, clocking almost thirty eight minutes, bring that kind of material that must interest those who like their meat still bleeding. The opening song Doomentor starts with a sober piece of Ambient, performed on (church) organ, and after about one minute and a half, it turns towards the band’s core business. Their Black Metal indeed is very slow, but it’s oh so heavy! Besides, and that seems to be a new trend (but being one which I do not dislike at all), Doomentor are heavily inspired by the First Wave (I do appreciate the so-called Second Wave a lot, yet since about 99% of the ‘old styled’ acts perform Nineties-inspired stuff…). Despite the mainly slow tempo, there is quite some thrashiness within this material, as well as elements from the (Traditional) Doom-genre. A band like Necromantia certainly comes to mind. But Doomentor go further, with the limited yet highly appropriate injection of synths and acoustics (listen to that great introduction on Funeral Dance, for example), bells, etc.; there’s even a fabulous, mystic introduction for Sea Of Blood that somewhat reminds me to the instrumental projects of Mortiis.
Besides the description ‘Black Imperial Occult Doom Metal’, the band makes notice of ‘a dark mix of Old Greek Black Metal / early Samael & noble Italian Traditional Doom’. It says it all, I think!
Finally this: this demo is available at Bandcamp, but it has been released on cassette too as first release on the new German label Messe Noire Productions (‘black mass’). It’s limited to 150 copies only, so hurry up to this label’s homepage to order this creation of Black Beauty!