Totengott - The Abyss (2019)^{Release ID: 14880}

Beginning gently with a lengthy intro track that lulls the listener before launching into a blistering death assault, the opening salvo is a one-two body blow followed up by the slower, doomier The Spell which rumbles ominously for it's 13 minutes. Only then do we get to the infernal heart of the album and the dark majesty of the epic Doppelgänger II: The Abyss, a journey into the underworld that takes the listener, like Dante being led by a death metal Virgil, down into a Doom Inferno. A brilliantly dark and menacing, heavily atmospheric, yet still crushing, album that feels almost like classic literature fed through a Marshall stack.