this thergothon record is so fucking sick. they were my portal into funeral doom. found it at a time right after my dad died and the mournful quality was really what i needed.
on the topic of "mournful," surely some folks in here are hip to mournful congregation? if not, check em out, some great melodic guitar leads. a cut above most funeral doom imo.
skepticism is another standout from the OG funeral doom world but they can get a little too symphonic and dorky for me at times.
and since thergothon is from finland, has anyone mentioned killer finnish death/doom band rippikoulu?
i think rippikoulu is where spectral voice got a lot of their original ideas from. interestingly enough i'm pretty sure a member of mournful congregation has done bass duties for spectral voice at some point or another. but yo, is everyone hip to their first ep/demo? SO MUCH better than the LP imo, just more focused and hard as nails. less clean guitar.
the spectral voice LP had a little bit of a dISEMBOWELMENT vibe to me, but disembowelment have like a whole ton of material that is arguable better, so its not like the SV demo where it expands on the rippikoulu sound that we tragically never got more of after their initial release
disembowelment are maybe more into the death side of doom so slightly outside the scope of this thread perhaps