Smoke Mountain - Queen of Sin (2020)^{Release ID: 20221}

Another album of orthodox doom metal that eschews all the trappings of modern metal music and returns to a stripped-down, lo-fi approach. On Queen of Sin the riff is king as they completely overpower every other aspect of the sound. The vocals and drums are distant-sounding and echoing and seem to be heard through the plodding, stentorian riffs rather than over them. The Floridian trio have truly taken their sound back to doom metal basics with an album that may only appeal to genuine doom devotees. Weirdly, the promo track is for the song Deathproof which isn't really representative of the rest of the album and sounds like an L7 track.