The album's cover photo is fitting for this dark, gloomy, multi-spacial effort:
The demon-headed woman riding a ghostly pig-like creature predicts haunting gothic torment, while the beautiful female body under the mask admits some tender musical finesse. The tracks feel less like songs, and more like seperately dark atmospheres, each one a mysterious venture.
Grails does a good job setting the dismal scene on the first few tracks, where they churn out some hard-riffing doom metal jamming, but after a few tracks, the metal gives way to smarter, more thought out music. "Reincarnation Blues" is the album's most evolved track, with fragile middle-eastern twang drowning in nasty guitar grind that pounds enough to paralyze the victim, only to relent at the point of suffocation.
Overall, the record is worth listening to. At times, you want to watch whatever movie they seem to be soundtracking, but no such movie exists. The music is unique, interesting, and perfectly melancholy, although smoewhat boring at times.
Out of 10 Huzaah's, I give Grails' "Doomsdayer's Holiday"
6.5 Huzaah's!
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