Old Horn Tooth are a doom metal band from the UK and this is their second album.
Mourning Light is massive, in more ways than one. There are four tracks, but each one is a doom monster, and the record’s total duration is 68 minutes. Old Horn Tooth aren’t messing around here, so strap in and prepare yourself for an avalanche of crushing doom.
For a rough starting point of the Old Horn Tooth experience, think of a mix of bands such as Conan, Electric Wizard, Monolord, Pallbearer, Slomatics, and Yob. It’s heavy, doomy, and drenched in fuzzy guitars and mood-rich darkness.
The songs are hypnotic and absorbing, drawing you into their orbit with irresistible gravitational force. They’re emotive and layered with feeling, driven by the warmly heavy riffs and the singer’s charismatic voice. The album is moreish, and the material grows in potency over time. Old Horn Tooth’s epic doom soundscapes are so easy to sink into you’ll never want to leave. The music has abyssal depths that call to you louder and louder the more that you fall into it, drowning in the atmospheric waters of the band’s creation.
The songwriting is straightforward, yet effective, building atmosphere and power through repetition, authentic emotion, and the skilled application of drums, bass, guitars, and vocals. From these simple ingredients spring four immense songs that span worlds of doom that are worth spending the time in to thoroughly explore.
If you’re a fan of the bands mentioned above and of the style in general, then Old Horn Tooth offer an immersive journey into long-form doom. They’re good at what they do, and Mourning Light has much to recommend itself for adherents of the style.
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