Review by Sonny for Obed Marsh - Innsmouth (2016)

This is a concept album based on the Shadow Over Innsmouth story by H.P.Lovecraft, a tale of the deformed and altered adherents of an ancient demon cult who inhabit a mouldering New England fishing town. The music is slow and brooding funeral doom with titanic riffs and shrieked vocals, that is a style I've been finding myself drawn to ever more in recent times. As far as the concept goes, I personally don't think the music particularly fits the story. The massive, glacial riffs and echoing vocals sound more suited to a story like Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, a tale of an ancient city of huge, cyclopean halls that echo to the long forgotten nightmares of some inconceivably aged alien precursor race. Saying that, though, the album does convey an unsettling feeling of unease and an inexplicable notion that there is something very sinister going on, just under the surface of our reality. I would say that, as a Lovecraft concept album, a worthy attempt and as a slab of funeral doom, a great success.