Review by Sonny for Ataraxy - The Last Mirror (2022)

The Spanish death doom four-piece return with their third album, four years on from Where All Hope Fades. They very quickly drop back into the same groove and produce another very accomplished album of doomed-out death metal dirges. If you are here to find something new and original then you are most definitely barking up the wrong tree with these guys, but if you need to feed your downtuned death metal urge then you could do far worse. 

The Last Mirror isn't the most brutally heavy iteration of death doom you will ever hear, but there are some pretty good riffs here and the combination of those distorted riffs and cleaner, bell-like lead work is very effective indeed. Vocalist Javi doesn't possess the deepest of death growls, but his vocals have a certain desperate earnestness to them that, along with the cleaner guitar work adds an effective melancholy air to proceedings that works in contrast to the more lethal crunchiness of the riffing. 

Overall, if you are want originality look elsewhere, if you are happy to give time to a well-done reworking of firmly established genre tropes then I would definitely say go for it with this.