Summoning - With Doom We Come

Artist: Summoning
Album: With Doom We Come
Year: 2018
Rating: 74/100

Austrian black metallers Summoning are one of those bands that seem to slip quietly under everybody's radar despite countless albums and a solid reputation. Like their fellow countrymen Abigor, Summoning deal in atmospheric black metal, and With Doom We Come is their 8th studio album.

The sonic clarity of With Doom We Come is the most striking thing about it on first listen. While the lack of a drummer results in these horrendous sounding programmed drums, the buzzsaw guitars have a warm tone to them and the keyboards provide a sufficient atmosphere. On the flip side, however, the songs just aren't that memorable. They don't do anywhere near enough to grab the attention of the listener, with the exception of "Herumor".

With Doom We Come is not a bad album by any stretch of the imagination, but it's also not an album that will sustain the listener's interest throughout, especially not with seven out of eight tracks being longer than seven minutes in length. Ideal for completists, but there's little to recommend it otherwise.

Track listing

1. Tar-Calion
2. Silvertine
3. Carcharoth
4. Herumor
5. Barrow-Downs
6. Night Fell Behind
7. Mirklands
8. With Doom I Come