ASSUMPTION - The Three Appearances CD
Assumption

ASSUMPTION - The Three Appearances CD

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Conceived in the interim between Undead Creep‘s dissolution and the formulation of Morbo‘s first full-length, this Italian death/doom metal project began with the duo of multi-instrumentalist Giorgio Trombino and drummer David collaborating with shared interest in classic death metal and extreme doom metal groups in mind. Not intending to be ‘retro’ but rather to put their spin on the psychedelic experimentation of groups like Esoteric and Disembowelment. I stumbled upon Assumption around 2014 as I was writing a feature on death metal that featured psychedelic instrumentation and/or hallucinatory themes. After seeing the band’s Disembowelment styled logo I had certain expectations for their sound and dove into their 2012 demo ‘Mosaic of the Distant Dominion’. That demo was perhaps closer to Ceremonium in style than I’d expected, and impressed me enough to get their 2014 EP ‘The Three Appearances’ a few months later.

‘The Three Appearances’ kicked off with mid-paced death metal immediately and won me over easy by firing at full speed out of the gate. It was a fantastic EP and it’s Eternal Darkness, Winter and Evoken influenced atmospheric death/doom style is exactly the type of death metal I am drawn to most. I’d really liked the demo but, ‘The Three Appearances’ is a release I still return to fairly often. It set a good high bar for death/doom in general. I lean towards the pure death metal side of things, though, and the funeral doom influenced psychedelia of their demo filled about 4-5 minutes of the 30 minute EP.