DECORYAH - Wisdom Floats Digi-CD

Finland birthed us the concept of funeral doom and plunged metal into a category of apathy and melancholy never before approached by the genre as a whole. But somehow Thergothon has been granted the most praise for this achievement. From them the inspirations behind what defines depressive metal was crafted to whole. But they do not deserve that place I feel. For their music comes off as a juvenile absurdity, something tongue in cheek, and that it must surely be watching how the band immediately threw out metal altogether and went to seek real musical melancholy in depressive goth rock/postpunk. For its notable qualities as a good metal album, Stream from the Heavens still sorrowful in the way that being sat on by a bunch of fat Finns is a sorrowful prospect.

No… the real monster of a ghastly apathy and clutching weakness lies instead with this masterpiece. It may not have influenced any one scene but in no way could Stream from the Heavens compete with Wisdom Floats when it comes to the most sorrowful of human emotions. Metal heads become so obsessed with ‘heaviness’ they apparently ran for the band that produced the most ‘heavy’ doom possible, and ignored Decoryah’s album and others for being too graceful or too light. I cant even believe it but MA calls this band gothic metal even! When in fact Wisdom Floats is about as gothic as a late 80’s Swans album is gothic. If you have any insight or are well in touch with the full spectrum of human emotions, then you would know not at all to mistake either of these works for the flowery romanticism and theatrical pomp that the moniker gothic has come to be a byword for.