Ea Taesse (Solitude Productions)

 This probably the most mysterious band in today’s Doom Metal scene, there’s practically no information about it in the net, the band’s line up is completely unknown, no one know when Ea was born, and there’re only conjectures about its procedence (it supposedly comes from the United States Of America). Just to increase the mysterious halo that surrounds this album (that’s, as far as I know, its only release at the time) Ea uses a dead language, basing its lyrical content in sacred text from ancient civilizations, unfortunately I don’t have a fucking clue about the dead language used or the civilization where it was taken from, so I guess the lyrics on this album will remain under the veil of mystery… at least for a while. Well, the music this band delivers has been labelled by many as Funeral Doom, but I think “Ea Taesse” is more than just that, although there’re undisputable Funeral Doom traces, the emotive and, particularly, the atmospheric elements seems to define the whole album. The solemn, pompous and magnificent keyboard driven atmospheres are the foremost element, leaving in second place the quite dense and crawling guitars, the cadent drumming and the sporadic growling vocal work, resulting in a highly ethereal, oneiric and obscure opus. “Ea Taesse” is, apparently, a single piece divided in three movements, and clocked, as a whole, in 55 minutes. The entire album art is as enigmatic as the entire concept behind this work, containing sober, dark, oneiric and quite weird images. This album is absolutely recommendable for those who enjoy the grandiloquent and obscure atmospheres, but if you are expecting an extreme Funeral Doom Metal release you could be a little disappointed, so I strongly recommend you to listen to this work with open mind. (AP)