Review by ZeroSymbolic7188 for Winter - Into Darkness (1990)

Looks like I'm going to be that bad guy here, but maybe you can chalk it up to "he just doesn't get it". It's big atmosphere, and it's minimalistic. To me it sounds like a lesser, but prior foray into drone. I'm not a big drone head, and when I do listen to drone it's Sunn O))). This sounds like a Sunn O))) project to me. When I listen to funeral doom I want the pretty keyboards, and the violins, and the melancholy. This breed of Funeral doom is more about just crushing sinister atmosphere like Skepticisim and Thergothon. Those bands never did anything for my soul either. Maybe this is really knocking it out of the park for a select crowd, but suspect it's riding a bit on the concept of being novel for it's time, and "influential". I just hear big empty space.