Suffer the Silence - Good Mourning
One look at the album cover tells you that Good Mourning is going to be influenced by Goth music. Whether that is good or bad depends on whether the band is influenced by whiny Emo Goth, or the dark, atmospheric Goth music that is heavy on the ambience and eschews the eyeliner and the frilly clothes. Thankfully, these guys have kept their music free of the whiny shit. Suffer the Silence is definitely heavy on the bleak and somber atmosphere. If Katatonia was a Death Metal band instead of a Black Metal band at their inception, they would have probably sounded a lot like this at some point during their transition. Suffer the Silence may have started out as a Death Metal band, but the only remaining Death Metal element that they’ve retained in their sound is the vocals. Otherwise, this wasn’t brutal or aggressive at all. In fact, it is very passive in the same way that the post-Thergothon entity, This Empty Flow, was. The main failing that Good Mourning has is that it isn’t heavy enough. The atmosphere is there, but what this album really needed was a stronger Doom element. If a band is going to be playing in the speed range for Doom, the music really should be heavy. This wasn’t and it was glaringly obvious what was missing. I kept waiting for this album to get crushingly heavy a-la Asunder or My Dying Bride, but it never happened. Suffer the Silence has the atmospheric part down pretty well. You definitely get the emotional aspect, but what’s lacking is some real heaviness. If this band can get heavier, their next album will kick ass.
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