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Dream Unending, the duo of Boston's vocalist-drummer Justin DeTore (Innumerable Forms), who was also the brain behind Innumerable Forms of Punishment in Flesh (2018), and guitarist Derrick Vella (Tomb Mold),
debuted with Tide Turns Eternal (20 Buck Spin, 2021),
ostensibly
a doom-metal tribute to the "Peaceville Three" sound of
Paradise Lost,
My Dying Bride and
Anathema.
The eight-minute In Cipher I Weep is perhaps the most intriguing revision
of that sound (zombie growl, pastoral intermezzo, lyrical guitar solo, hysterical ending); even better the fact that it is preceded by
the two-minute dreamy acoustic overture Entrance.
The two longer gothic fantasias have ups and downs.
The eleven-minute Dream Unending peaks with the somnolent instrumental intermezzo but is dragged down by the spoken-word section that comes after it,
although redeemed by a cosmic crescendo.
The ten-minute Tide Turns Eternal injects in the doom model foreign
sounds like blastbeats, female chanting and stoner-rock riffs with mixed results.
The long format doesn't seem to be Dream Unending's forte.
On the other hand,
the lugubrious The Needful outdoes the masters in terms of doom and gloom: rarely has doom-metal felt like it was coming from such abysses.
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