With a genre like Funeral Death Doom, It's very easy for a band to be predictable and go unnoticed without even a whisper. And with a band named SCATTERED HOPE, the music is a tad predictable even before starting the album. The album goes with the tried and tested waters of long songs, with the shortest of the 5 songs clocking 10:36 and the longest almost reaching 18 minutes, the album as a whole nearly clocks one hour and twenty minutes testing your patience!

The growling vocals are good and not completely predictable and shifts to whispering gasping vocals especially during slow thick riffs .the music gives a feeling of a crawling snake on your legs when you are listening to these never ending lethargic songs with slow riffs. Synthetic guitars are used beautifully to create a wave of melody. The guitars create different shades of drone which makes the album bearable. The crying guitars are used to optimize the doom feel of the music and works well for the band. Surprisingly for a Doom album, the drums stand out too, considering the slow nature of music and it has some unusually notable parts in the whole music.

"My Cure Is Your Disease" has a little faster pace, allowing the music to chug along and helping you to slowly head bang to it and in my opinion is the most notable song in the album ,as even the vocals find its real identity in the song. "Obsessive Dilemma" has a notable atmospheric axe work and makes me realize the range of possibilities in this niche genre and throws some great riffs within its 10 and half minutes.

As is the norm with this genre, the bass plays an important role in the whole package and does the expected job. Last track "Here's To Death" packs lots of atmospheric Doom laden guitar work with minimum drums and has a lazy growling vocals. With a song clocking nearly 18 minutes one may wonder if the band may be accused of over doing it and has tested the patience of the listener, but the band fills in enough variety and flavor to keep you hooked and bear with the whole album.

While the lyrics deal with sadness and depression, the music does get predictable, though does throw a surprise or two once in a while and production is heavy and echoing as well as it did with the bands previous works. Frankly I'm not sure why the album is titled "Waters Of Lethe" as the album doesn't really flow as smoothly as I expected it to.

With this being a second album from this Greek Doomers, they have made their path and ideas clear to their audience and should be a force to reckon in the future for this niche music.