{"title":"Riff Merchant Records  @ct@if@label-24092@","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"weeping-sores-false-confession-double-lp-gatefold","title":"Weeping Sores - False Confession - DOUBLE LP Gatefold","description":"\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=377557698\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/weepingsores.bandcamp.com\/album\/false-confession\"\u003eFalse Confession by Weeping Sores\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecorded by Chris Grigg of WOE and mastered by Greg Chandler of ESOTERIC, “False Confession” is the debut album of WEEPING SORES, a doom\/death project featuring the talents of Doug Moore (guitars, bass, vocals) and Steve Schwegler (drums) of PYRRHON and SEPUTUS, with Gina Eygenhuysen on violins, a role she has filled for the Oregon sludge band HELL before joining TCHORNOBOG on bass.\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nAfter a promising EP released in 2017, “False Confession” confirms WEEPING SORES' inspiration, at the same time outdistancing them from easy comparisons with Peaceville's Trimurti of death\/doom. “The whole concept of doom\/death with a violin can sound pretty cheesy coming from most bands that aren't My Dying Bride,” Doug Moore comments, “but it's a bit of an accident of fate that WEEPING SORES ended up with that combination of sounds. The original concept of the band was pretty different and didn't have a violin, but I happened to meet Gina around when I was starting to write for the project, and she was so gifted on the instrument that I felt compelled to ask if she was interested in collaborating.”\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nWEEPING SORES' approach to doom\/death is very personal, mediated by their admiration for bands like EVOKEN, WARNING and MORBID ANGEL, among the others. The music is highly atmospheric, and yet never allowed to slide into melodrama and complacency. Always intense and densely layered with riffs and hooks, “False Confession” is as melancholic and soul-wrenching during its most gloomy passages as it is twisted and suffocating during the impressive bursts of pure death metal. 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Slow and dirging, yet righteous and vigilant in its delivery. With every release, the evolution of Cowardice has never understated its ability to grow and branch into sensibilities that do not conform to the stalwart pillars of doom metal.\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n\"Atavist\" sees the band at their most daring of limits. Capitalizing on the dichotomy of melancholia and agonizing, churning, sludgy guitar work from the \"Fealty\" EP, \"Atavist\" pushes the basis further. A double-album in its entirety, \"Atavist\" challenges the listener to a one-and-a-half hour listen in its totality. In \"Atavist's\" first half, titled 'Suzerain,' Cowardice seeks a triumphant and glistening sonic bout of down-tuned metal. Through passages of gleaming slide guitar leads and hopeful clean vocalization dotted therein, 'Suzerain' slowly gives way to the darker latter half of the journey that is \"Atavist.\" Transitioning out of 'Suzerain,' enters the second album comprised within \"Atavist;\" 'Sentinel.\" In its reigns of ultra-low tuned guitars, 'Sentinel' breaks the mold of 'Suzerain' and submerges the listener into the brutalizing woes of glacially slow paces of doom metal, intermingled with funereal harmonies meant only to deliver the listener deeper into the mire that is \"Atavist.\" In cataclysmic fashion, 'Sentinel' finalizes the \"Atavist\" experience with its 17-minute closer, \"Hall of Mages,\" which serves only to mangle those who take it on into despondency.\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nA challenge in itself, \"Atavist\" demands the willpower of its listener. It demands a sharpened attentiveness of those who refuse to tire. 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