Despite Fall Babylon Falls legendary status in the doom metal scene, I tend to prefer this version of one of its signature songs to the original. In the place of towering walls of riffs and searing vocals that seem to rain down fire from heaven, is a post-apocalyptic look at the same event, the destruction of Babylon from Revelation 18. No electric guitars or soaring vocals, and indeed no metal whatsoever, just a mushroom cloud of despondent atmosphere. The tempo is a constant funereal trudge for almost ten minutes. The melodies drift slowly and echo ghastly into the distance, particularly a Middle Eastern main theme echoed by wordless vocal laments that sound like the tortured souls of the sinners left behind in Babylon. Their souls going up in smoke and fire forever, just like the smoke rising up forever from the ruined city of sin that they called their home. Although Veni Domine officially disbanded after the release of Light, it is suitable for them to end their career telling the same story they have always told in every album: Gods vengeance will someday strike, and evil will someday be destroyed forever. The ultimate inversion of the archetypal doom metal theme. And the reason their mark on the genre will last forever.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 00:31:42 +0000
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