Roman doomers Suum made their debut last year with Buried into the Grave, and they’re getting ready to follow that seven-track outing — which was issued on CD through Endless Winter and tape through Hellas Records — with the new album, Cryptomass. “The Silence of Agony” is the second cut they’ve unveiled from their sophomore long-player, behind the song “Cryptomass” itself, which they made live on Bandcamp back in March. Not much about the full-length is actually known at this point in terms of the timing for the release, what other songs are included, or even who is putting it out, but all of that is reportedly in progress, and if the band are eager to get the material out there, the fact that March was seven months ago already means they’ve been sitting on at least some amount of a finished LP for the last seven months. If you’ve never been in that kind of situation before, take my word for it — you’d be eager too.

In “The Silence of Agony” and “Cryptomass” alike, one finds the four-piece dug deep into an atmosphere of classic doom. Echo-laden vocals cry out alongside burly but not chestbeating riffs, and both pieces give a sense of atmosphere that the rest of Cryptomass according to vocalist Mark Wolf — also of Bretus, whose new record, Aion Tetra (review here), came out in August on Ordo MCM — will work to likewise reinforce. Dark, cryptic trad doom with the occasional bit of claws-up screaming and choice heavy roll pushing it along? No pretense? A willful lack of bullshit? I’ll take that almost any day of the week. Happily.

Or, you know, at least as happy as one should be with all the fog-filled cemeteries and whatnot around.

I’ll hope to have more on Cryptomass to come as we get nearer to the release. Wolf‘s comments on the track follow the clip below.

Please enjoy:

Suum, “The Silence of Agony” official video

Mark Wolf on “The Silence of Agony”:

This is the first extract of Cryptomass, our second album. This is an old school doom metal song with occult and Mystic lyrics. Of course all songs are pretty darker and obsessive like this. With the use of the metaphors I describe the horror that surrounds us every day. I have always been interested in the dark side of the things. Is an introspective theme and have been influenced by some things happening in my life during the last year.

With the video we wanted to create a scenario representative of the music we express. We are proud to share with you the first extract of our new album.
Soon the details about “Cryptomass” release.

Suum are:
Mark Wolf – Vocals
Painkiller – Guitars
Jos Grave – Bass
Fed Kemper – Drums

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