Metal as a whole musical style is like a furious storm over the oceans: always changing, always changing. One style that seems dead by now can come back to life in a new shape, ready for new times, and others in evidence can fall and become silent for many years. In the middle of the 90s, in the age when MY DYING BRIDE released "The Angel and the Dark River", ANATHEMA released "Eternity" and PARADISE LOST released "Icon", no one could think that Doom Death Metal could come out from its earlier grave again. But it came, but very different from before. And bands as the North American sextet FIN'AMOR (from Brooklyn, New York) are the ones carrying the torch to the future. And their first album, "Forbidding Mourning", marks them as one potential giant.

All the elements you could find in earlier Doom Death Metal bands you'll find in their work, but more elegant and with deep and introspective musical elements from post Doom Death Metal era from bands as MY DYING BRIDE. It's a heavy and very depressive way of music, elegant, but heavy and aggressive due the presence of guttural vocals (but not all the time; there are female and clean male voices as well), but the work done on keyboards keeps the dusty and funeral atmospheric feeling present.

The sound quality is a bit harsh and hollow sometimes. Ok, you'll ask me "but dear Big Daddy, isn't the right choice for a Death Metal band?", and I'll answer "yes, but not for a Doom Death Metal with this kind of musical work", so the quality could be better, but is not as bad as you could think. It's clear in a level that we really can understand what they are playing, and heavy as they need. But it could be better in some tunes on distorted guitars sometimes.

The album has seven song, five of them lasting more than six minutes ("Memories of Flesh" and "Porcelain Swan" have less than a five minute duration). But can tell you: songs like "Bleed the Ocean" (full of a deep oppressive atmosphere, beauty and full of good keyboards and a heavy rhythmic session), "Oasis" (with an experimental part on the beginning, having clean moments and normal tunes of male voices, and the a depressive and distored song arise) and "Natura" can be pointed as their finest moments by now. And with "by now", I mean that is clear to me that they have a great potential that is still hidden within their souls.

I really want to live and see what they are about in a near future.