Lista de Bandas Doom Metal Wolvserpent Blood Seed

Comprised of Brittany McConnell and Blake Green, Wolvserpent, formerly known as Pussygutt, release their second record to date in 2010. The duet comes from Boise, Idaho which is more renowned for being the capital city of the American highest potato population than for its active Metal scene. Having traveled the roads of Idaho you’re either confronted with limitless fields of potatoes or graphic and yet melancholy and desolate scenery.

That melancholy and this despair would be a good enough reason for playing Doom Metal and Wolvserpent does use and abuse this doomy trademark. Now Blood Seed isn’t strictly speaking a Doom Metal record.

Made of only two lengthy tracks, the album is built into two distinct parts very different from one another. The first song, “Wolv”, offers fantastic sonic landscapes of grim beauty with the picturesque use of a languid violin. Idaho being quite close to Canada, maybe this will explain the striking similarity to Constellations figureheads’ A Silver Mt. Zion and their gloomy debut “He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms…”. If you know the band or if the name Godspeed You! Black Emperor rings a bell, you'd also know that we're quite far from anything sounding Metal at all. Sure, the end of the song does bring some guitars and vocals but there isn’t much here that would really be qualified as Metal.

The second track, “Serpent”, actually picks up where “Wolv” ended but it goes much faster in less unknown territories with a good dose of Drone Doom with Funeral Doom elements reminiscent of bands like Bosque or Negative Reaction with a few “nature” touches (is that a wolf howling in the back?) that give it either a pagan or hippie feeling.

The only real issue with “drone-like” productions is the evident lack of variation within the songs and unless you’re built for that kind of things (because it is acquired taste), you’d soon lose focus and discard the record altogether. It’s common practice with such records to either call them pure awesome genius or simply trash them in the artsy gibberish pile of junk. I'd be more reserved finding good ideas in both tracks but maybe too great a disparity to really fall in love with the album as a piece of musical art.