CIMINERO - Subterranean Awakening
Self Released
OK people it's time to break out the Spencer's Gifts' lava lamp, those plastic skulls you bought at the Halloween store and any arcane crap you picked up at Jinx Dawson's yard sale. It's time for some female fronted occult doom. I'm not making light of the genre. It's just that over the past decade I've run across many of these types of bands. The formula is simple so how you work with it makes it decent or boring.
This year's newest entry into the rites of darkness is CIMINERO a four piece act from Finland but their vocalist, Valentina Vigato, is Italian. I'll give props to their singer for not using that generic airy waif-like chanting vocal style. In fact Vigato is more monotone doomish in style. Vocally she reminds me, to a point, of Farida Lemouchi from the now defunct Dutch occult doom band The DEVIL'S BLOOD.
In fact musically this comes across more like in the vein of DEVIL'S BLOOD with some (once again) non generic package of previous paths to the letter. There's a total 70's vibe of rockin blues and that touch of psych which is not over done. Some cool riff playing as well as soloing that ends up being the dynamic of many songs.
This is a good late night listen with plenty of classic style doom and atmosphere which let's the vocals shine, actually echo out throughout this house. Welcome to occultism in Doom 2020 but in all honesty this is cool but lacks a personal standout approach by this band. Then again this is just a debut so who knows but hey great album cover art work.
https://ciminero.bandcamp.com/releases
https://www.facebook.com/cimineroband/
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