Ether Coven - Everything is Temporary Except Suffering (2020)^{Release ID: 16087}

Intensely dark sludge metal from Floridians Ether Coven that, apart from a couple of quieter, more reflective tracks, is suitably aggressive. The riffs are huge and intimidating and the vocals are desperate and savage-sounding in the main. The drums sound quite busy, but are a bit too muted and their sound is dulled by the production. However, when it hits the mark, particularly with the two longer tracks, This House Is a Tomb of Memories and The Burden of Loss, it is very impressive, but that said, it is too long at almost an hour, for an album of this intensity.