I first heard Eve Of Mourning on their 1993 "Achronian Winter" demo. Another person listening to the music quite off-handly referred to it as "slit-you-wrist music". With "The Raven" that title still holds quite well.
Eve Of Mourning brings us the most depressing and sullen music that you could possibly find. From the music to the lyrics there is nothing remotely happy or glorious about the music. Outdoing My Dying Bride, EOM is a very dark band that represents what modern doom at one time was once defined as. A simple line-up of a guitar, bass, drums, and a keyboard drowns you in the sorrowing atmosphere without sounding in the slightest bit electronic. Every strum of the subdoed riffs takes your attention away form the simplicity of the music into the flowing mixture of emotions that really defines what EOM is: sad, depressing, sombre, sullen. There is no melancholic fear, the lyrics bring to the present the eminent disastorous future. Dwelling on demise, the lyrics tell stories of dying warriors and an individual being killed in his sleep (the latter of which has an excellent victim first person perspective). The lyrics are deserving of their close to spoken word slow and deep delivery which completes the content of the album.
Aside from what can be expected of a recording made on a 4-track mixer, there is nothing noticeably bad about the album. "The Raven" is a great release that will have you longing for more Eve Of Mourning.
Eve Of Mourning is: Scott McElheney - Vocals, Guitar, Programming Joel Leonard - Guitar David Holland - Bass Brian Whited - Keyboard Contact: Eve Of Mourning PO Box 297 Palos Heights, IL 60463 USA Email: mortarse@earthlink.net Web: http://home.earthlink.net/~mortarse/
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