Behind the Dissolution of Consciousness - Interview with FUNELORE - 6/30/2026
Behind the Dissolution of Consciousness - Interview with Funelore - 6/30/2026
Although the interviews this summer are going slower due to me just being busy with family and other stuff, I am very happy to hear from and publish this interview by Funelore, a Funeral Doom band that greatly caught my attention when they released their debut EP album. I'm impressed with their direction and I'm eager for what they have coming next, and I encourage anyone reading to support this project! - Rusty
Welcome to Crypt’s Burden, it’s a pleasure to be able to interview you, especially as a fresh band. With this I’ll ask some questions about who you are and all that but I’ll try to keep things interesting as you go along.
Some oddball questions to end:
1. What are your interests outside of music? Any other hobbies?
[M.B] Outside of music, I like to spend my time reading things or going on bike rides when the weather is nice, which doesn’t happen too often because it seems to always be blistering cold for 80% of the year over here. Sometimes I’ll do a bit of gaming or watch movies and shows, but yeah, listening to and writing music has taken up almost all of my free time for years now.
[A.E] I do like gaming, maybe a bit too much, even if I don’t game that much compared to some die hard gamers, I should play guitar more. I’m a huge fromsoft fan and that’s pretty much all I play generally. Other than that, I like to go on bike rides and I also do chainmail in my free time, mostly jewelry. Taking cemetery pictures is also fun. I should go actually right now, in the summer people put up flowers.
2. Have you ever had a paranormal experience?
[M.B] I personally haven’t experienced anything, but I’ve heard stories from many other people in my life about such. I’ve always been a skeptic regarding these things, so I’m not totally convinced, but it is hard to deny the fact that we truly know so little about this world, so who knows.
3. Favorite season?
[M.B] My favourite season is definitely autumn. I’ve never been a fan of extremely cold weather, and I kind of dread the summer time, so autumn is the perfect balance of both.
[A.E] I like spring.
4. What are some peeves you have about other modern Funeral Doom/Metal in general?
[M.B] I personally don’t have too many peeves with funeral doom, maybe besides the fact that some bands sound way too similar, but that goes for a good chunk of metal bands, and I guess sometimes excessively “cavernous” sounding stuff can be annoying for me to listen to. For metal as a whole, obviously I don’t like djent or other genres of that kind at all.
[A.E] When something sounds ‘’too good’, I need dirt & crudeness. There are not a lot of these overly produced sounds in funeral doom fortunately.
5. Favorite albums, Metal or non-Metal?
[M.B] For metal, I would say my favourite albums would have to be the classics such as Quietus by Evoken, Onward to Golgotha by Incantation, Here in After by Immolation, Brave Murder Day / Sounds of Decay from Katatonia, The Angel & The Dark River from My Dying Bride, Adramelech - Psychostasia, Eucharist - A Velvet Creation, Funebrarum - Beneath The Columns of Abandoned Gods, Darkthrone - Under a Funeral Moon and so so many more. I could really go on about metal forever. For non-metal, I really enjoy King Crimson’s - Red, The Doors’ debut, Joy Division’s debut, Spiderland from Slint, Harmony in Ultraviolet by Tim Hecker, and the first few albums from Fugazi.
[A.E] Aside from our most obvious influences like Evoken & diSEMBOWELMENT, and from the top of my head, my favourite metal albums would include Tyranny’s Tides Of Awakening, most of Mournful Congregation’s material, Saturnine by Profetus and Netherwards by Anhedonist for the much slower side of things… Grisly Aftermath by Mortal Decay, Musta Sermonia from Rippikoulu, The Sad Realm of the Stars by Odium, Sigil of Baphomet by Imprecation or Angelcunt by Archgoat for the more classic metal sound. I do enjoy a lot of non metal music as well, mostly dungeon synth like Castle of Sand from Jim Kirkwood, Enchantment Of The Ring by Secret Stairways, anything by Ghoëst and much more. Also stuff like Oath Of The Paladins by Gloomy Reflections, which has been on repeat since its release. Dio’s Holy Diver, the very controversial Turbo by Judas Priest, or even post punk, mostly newer bands like Second Still.
Thanks for taking the time in this interview, I love being able to get thoughts from newer bands. Especially in the Fundoom scene. If there is anything else you wish to add, you may do so below:
[M.B] I don’t have too much else to add besides thanks to you for writing to us, and everyone else for taking the time to listen to our music and support Funelore. A.E and I are both very excited to finish up our first album and show everyone what else we have been working hard on.
[A.E] Thanks for reaching out and spreading the word. We are here to stay and already have an album and much more written. Stay cool and ignore bad folks.
1. First of all, how are you doing? What does your setting look like at the moment?
[M.B] I am not doing too bad right now. Nothing too exciting about my setting right now, just writing out these responses in my room.
[A.E] Pretty boring setting. I’m at work killing time, ignoring emails while spinning Abysmal Lord’s Storms Of Unholy Black Mass, thinking about my kitties and the gf wishing I was with them right now.
2. How has the response to The Dissolution of Consciousness been so far? I certainly loved it.
[M.B] I’m glad you enjoyed it. For me, the response has been overwhelming in all the best ways possible. Since this is my first ever release and project, there was a bit of nervousness looming over me in regards to the critical reception we would receive, if any. I also believe funeral/death doom can be a hit or miss genre. It’s hard to create something that stands out among the rest, so releasing a very niche type of sound like we do inevitably comes with the risk of being overlooked and forgotten. It’s not like the MAIN goal was to try to please anyone and everyone, though. So yeah, it couldn’t have gone any better for us.
[M.B] I am not doing too bad right now. Nothing too exciting about my setting right now, just writing out these responses in my room.
[A.E] Pretty boring setting. I’m at work killing time, ignoring emails while spinning Abysmal Lord’s Storms Of Unholy Black Mass, thinking about my kitties and the gf wishing I was with them right now.
2. How has the response to The Dissolution of Consciousness been so far? I certainly loved it.
[M.B] I’m glad you enjoyed it. For me, the response has been overwhelming in all the best ways possible. Since this is my first ever release and project, there was a bit of nervousness looming over me in regards to the critical reception we would receive, if any. I also believe funeral/death doom can be a hit or miss genre. It’s hard to create something that stands out among the rest, so releasing a very niche type of sound like we do inevitably comes with the risk of being overlooked and forgotten. It’s not like the MAIN goal was to try to please anyone and everyone, though. So yeah, it couldn’t have gone any better for us.
I’ve been making music for years now, but I wanted to wait until I was fully ready to put out something I truly believed in, and that just happened to be Funelore with my great friend A.E. I will say, it is a very surreal feeling knowing there are lots of people out there writing great things about us, or enjoying our music on physical formats, etc. I totally did not anticipate any of this when I first began writing these songs and talking to A.E.
3. As far as I’m aware Canada doesn’t have a very extensive Funeral Doom scene. There are some notable names like Krief de Soli, Atramentus, and now a newer band Obseqk who released an EP just less than a week after yours. Perhaps there is a rise of Canadian Funeral Doom coming. How did you two meet for this project, and what inspired you to take on this sound?
[M.B] A rise of Canadian funeral doom would be great as this sound rarely gets explored up here. Of course, Atramentus is amazing, and that Obseqk EP was good too. It really reminded me of Warning’s Watching From a Distance. Never heard of Krief de Soli though, I will have to check it out. A.E and I’s friendship began online when I was in need of a vocalist and a bass player. I had some other people message me, but no one else understood this type of music as well as he does. We clicked very fast talking to each other as we are both highly passionate about death/doom metal, love the same aesthetics, and share the same values in life. Much of the inspiration behind Funelore stemmed from my deep admiration of the emotive weight embedded in the classics of this genre. Funeral doom, in my opinion, is one of the most honest sounding forms of metal. Its overwhelming sense of despair and introspection has always resonated with me profoundly. There is just something about it that I can never put to words… It's painfully sincere, and that is the type of feeling I’ve wanted to convey through Funelore from the beginning.
3. As far as I’m aware Canada doesn’t have a very extensive Funeral Doom scene. There are some notable names like Krief de Soli, Atramentus, and now a newer band Obseqk who released an EP just less than a week after yours. Perhaps there is a rise of Canadian Funeral Doom coming. How did you two meet for this project, and what inspired you to take on this sound?
[M.B] A rise of Canadian funeral doom would be great as this sound rarely gets explored up here. Of course, Atramentus is amazing, and that Obseqk EP was good too. It really reminded me of Warning’s Watching From a Distance. Never heard of Krief de Soli though, I will have to check it out. A.E and I’s friendship began online when I was in need of a vocalist and a bass player. I had some other people message me, but no one else understood this type of music as well as he does. We clicked very fast talking to each other as we are both highly passionate about death/doom metal, love the same aesthetics, and share the same values in life. Much of the inspiration behind Funelore stemmed from my deep admiration of the emotive weight embedded in the classics of this genre. Funeral doom, in my opinion, is one of the most honest sounding forms of metal. Its overwhelming sense of despair and introspection has always resonated with me profoundly. There is just something about it that I can never put to words… It's painfully sincere, and that is the type of feeling I’ve wanted to convey through Funelore from the beginning.
(We couldn't agree more! - Rusty)
[A.E] Indeed, not a lot of funeral doom coming from Canada. According to metal archives, Funelore is only 1 of the 34 funeral doom bands from here, and we’re not even pure funeral doom, we do have a lot of death doom influences as well I would say. Atramentus is a favorite of mine, and so are most of Tougas’ bands actually, this guy just knows how to get it done. I also quite like Temple of Abandonment a lot, which features my dear friend Anju on drums… Anyways, like M.B mentioned, we met online. This was a genuine stroke of luck for me. I’ve been in a couple of bands since I started playing music, but never in a funeral doom band. It is a genre I adore and listen to a lot, but it is also a style where its fanbase is quite sparse, sadly… Albeit, understandably. As soon as M.B sent me some demo tracks for me to try some vocals on, I was hooked and knew I had to be the guy for the job. Pretty glad it all worked out since we both have the same vision for what this band should be.
4. Your band name seems to take on a combination of “Funeral” and “Lore”, very fitting for the music you play. Is there a deeper meaning behind the name you chose?
[A.E] We both made a list for potential names, but nothing unveiled what our music is about as easily as Funelore. It is a band name I had on my mind for a long time for a funeral doom band, but never got to it before meeting M.B. Of course, we are aware it sounds like a ton of other bands that already exist, but when you look at our aesthetics, our lyrics and our atmosphere, it's all about death and the studies of its inscrutable process, so nothing else was as fitting as the name we chose for this project. Funelore is also really simple, to the point and easily describes our sound.
5. In The Dissolution of Consciousness I hear influences from early Evoken, and your logo has some similarity as well. But I’ll confirm here- what are your biggest influences going into this project?
[M.B] Sonically, I’d say the bands that influenced me the most were Evoken, diSEMBOWELMENT, Shape of Despair, early Katatonia and Morgion. A lot of gothic atmospherics come into play as well. It’s hard not to stray from the Evoken comparisons, I really admire their use of synths and overall song structuring. While it isn’t too present in our music, the song writing style of bands such as Incantation, Immolation, or other OSDM greats have always been a huge inspiration to me.
[A.E] Vocally speaking, I took a lot of influence from diSEMBOWELMENT like M.B mentioned, especially in the higher range, but also a lot from Paradise Lost as well. I found my usual type of vocals to sound quite off for this project, I usually scream much lower and deeper ala Craig Pillard or Will Rhamer, but it just didn’t work for Funelore in my opinion. After a couple hours and beers, I finally found the right type of vocals and pulled off the whole session in a couple of takes shortly afterwards through the night.
6. What does the title The Dissolution of Consciousness mean to you?
[A.E] The Dissolution of Consciousness was a way for me to express my fears and thoughts about passing through to the other side. Of course, I do use these themes in other bands, but Funelore is my first time writing and screaming in English, so it naturally brings me to other places. Being a very anxious person can be pretty stressful and heavy in the day to day, so The Dissolution of Consciousness for me basically is the time where all those dark thoughts and emotions will finally be put to rest…
7. Funelore does a great job at balancing both atmosphere and heaviness. Do both of these aspects come naturally when writing a song, or is one of them at the forefront?
[M.B] Thank you. When I write for Funelore, I don’t ever really think about accomplishing any sort of level of heaviness or atmosphere. I don’t like to set goals for myself while writing, it just makes the whole process feel like an obligation, and having that pressure on my back always strips the music of its authenticity. I believe our sound is pure because it is derived strictly from our intuition. Even though we often are compared to bands like Evoken or diSEMBOWELMENT, they’re merely a source of inspiration. Wanting to sound entirely like someone or something else goes against my artistic
integrity. The strongest songs in our catalog have always been the ones where I would just zone out and let ideas rip and fall into their places as they’re meant to be.
8. What does the songwriting process look like for you? Does M.B. do most of the composition or is it more collaborative? How long does a song usually take before it’s finished?
[M.B] Due to the nature of our music, the songwriting process for Funelore is one that demands a lot of my patience. Death / funeral doom is one of those genres where every riff has to count, since the music is so vast and controlled. Some songs are easier to write than others, but for the most part, a lot of the riffs and atmospheres shown were ones that I wrote a very long time ago, they just so happened to work in a musical context now. I don’t ever recall a point in time where I sat down and wrote a whole song in a short time span. Then, of course, I spend countless hours relistening to a song before deciding it sounds okay enough, or sometimes I’ll take a break for months before returning to something.
[A.E] Indeed, not a lot of funeral doom coming from Canada. According to metal archives, Funelore is only 1 of the 34 funeral doom bands from here, and we’re not even pure funeral doom, we do have a lot of death doom influences as well I would say. Atramentus is a favorite of mine, and so are most of Tougas’ bands actually, this guy just knows how to get it done. I also quite like Temple of Abandonment a lot, which features my dear friend Anju on drums… Anyways, like M.B mentioned, we met online. This was a genuine stroke of luck for me. I’ve been in a couple of bands since I started playing music, but never in a funeral doom band. It is a genre I adore and listen to a lot, but it is also a style where its fanbase is quite sparse, sadly… Albeit, understandably. As soon as M.B sent me some demo tracks for me to try some vocals on, I was hooked and knew I had to be the guy for the job. Pretty glad it all worked out since we both have the same vision for what this band should be.
4. Your band name seems to take on a combination of “Funeral” and “Lore”, very fitting for the music you play. Is there a deeper meaning behind the name you chose?
[A.E] We both made a list for potential names, but nothing unveiled what our music is about as easily as Funelore. It is a band name I had on my mind for a long time for a funeral doom band, but never got to it before meeting M.B. Of course, we are aware it sounds like a ton of other bands that already exist, but when you look at our aesthetics, our lyrics and our atmosphere, it's all about death and the studies of its inscrutable process, so nothing else was as fitting as the name we chose for this project. Funelore is also really simple, to the point and easily describes our sound.
5. In The Dissolution of Consciousness I hear influences from early Evoken, and your logo has some similarity as well. But I’ll confirm here- what are your biggest influences going into this project?
[M.B] Sonically, I’d say the bands that influenced me the most were Evoken, diSEMBOWELMENT, Shape of Despair, early Katatonia and Morgion. A lot of gothic atmospherics come into play as well. It’s hard not to stray from the Evoken comparisons, I really admire their use of synths and overall song structuring. While it isn’t too present in our music, the song writing style of bands such as Incantation, Immolation, or other OSDM greats have always been a huge inspiration to me.
[A.E] Vocally speaking, I took a lot of influence from diSEMBOWELMENT like M.B mentioned, especially in the higher range, but also a lot from Paradise Lost as well. I found my usual type of vocals to sound quite off for this project, I usually scream much lower and deeper ala Craig Pillard or Will Rhamer, but it just didn’t work for Funelore in my opinion. After a couple hours and beers, I finally found the right type of vocals and pulled off the whole session in a couple of takes shortly afterwards through the night.
6. What does the title The Dissolution of Consciousness mean to you?
[A.E] The Dissolution of Consciousness was a way for me to express my fears and thoughts about passing through to the other side. Of course, I do use these themes in other bands, but Funelore is my first time writing and screaming in English, so it naturally brings me to other places. Being a very anxious person can be pretty stressful and heavy in the day to day, so The Dissolution of Consciousness for me basically is the time where all those dark thoughts and emotions will finally be put to rest…
7. Funelore does a great job at balancing both atmosphere and heaviness. Do both of these aspects come naturally when writing a song, or is one of them at the forefront?
[M.B] Thank you. When I write for Funelore, I don’t ever really think about accomplishing any sort of level of heaviness or atmosphere. I don’t like to set goals for myself while writing, it just makes the whole process feel like an obligation, and having that pressure on my back always strips the music of its authenticity. I believe our sound is pure because it is derived strictly from our intuition. Even though we often are compared to bands like Evoken or diSEMBOWELMENT, they’re merely a source of inspiration. Wanting to sound entirely like someone or something else goes against my artistic
integrity. The strongest songs in our catalog have always been the ones where I would just zone out and let ideas rip and fall into their places as they’re meant to be.
8. What does the songwriting process look like for you? Does M.B. do most of the composition or is it more collaborative? How long does a song usually take before it’s finished?
[M.B] Due to the nature of our music, the songwriting process for Funelore is one that demands a lot of my patience. Death / funeral doom is one of those genres where every riff has to count, since the music is so vast and controlled. Some songs are easier to write than others, but for the most part, a lot of the riffs and atmospheres shown were ones that I wrote a very long time ago, they just so happened to work in a musical context now. I don’t ever recall a point in time where I sat down and wrote a whole song in a short time span. Then, of course, I spend countless hours relistening to a song before deciding it sounds okay enough, or sometimes I’ll take a break for months before returning to something.
Right now, I’ve been the one handling all of the instrumental composition. That is mostly due to the fact that a lot of our upcoming material was already written before I met A.E. For future releases, I would love to have A.E add his own touches to the guitar work as he is also very talented with writing riffs and structuring songs, as shown in Sedimentum. I believe it would be a great idea to fuse both of our musical styles together to help evolve this project further.
9. Being that your first release is an EP and not a demo, can we expect this style to stay or do you plan on things changing in the future?
[M.B] Our first full-length that we are working on is definitely going to remain more so in the style of The Dissolution of Consciousness, but will have a slightly different atmosphere. Originally, we intended to have “The Dissolution of Consciousness” on our full-length, as this release was planned to be purely a demo. After some time though, we felt like it sounded perfect the way it was, and upscaling the song would make it lose its special charm. “Tides in Agony” was a song that would be separate from our full-length, but it seemed to go hand in hand with “The Dissolution”. Having either one of these songs on our full-length felt out of place, hence why we decided to refer to this release as a “demo EP”. Anyways, our first album is going to have a darker tone with much more “death metal” influences portrayed. We already have a lot more material to come after our full-length where our sound will switch up quite a bit. We like to keep things fresh and constantly evolve the sound of Funelore. All of the songs featured on our full-length will be older compositions A.E and I have been fleshing out for a while now.
10. Do you plan on getting a drummer? If so, would you ever take Funelore to the stage?
[M.B] Right now as we are currently unsigned and have no deals going on, we don’t necessarily have the biggest budget to gather musicians to play with us. A.E and I collaborate remotely since we both live in different provinces, which comes with its ups and downs. Obviously, the downside is that playing live together would be a bit more costly due to travel expenses, and since we are only a duo, we would probably have to hire session musicians to fill in for the other roles as well. The upside is that we aren’t under any pressure to behave in any certain way. We both have complete creative freedom and are able to thrive in our own personal spaces without the constraints of having to prepare for band practice, or finish things on a deadline, for example. But, of course, we would love to perform live together someday. Not to get too ahead of ourselves, but we may have some opportunities to pursue in the near future in terms of live performances, and we’re consistently striving to make that work out.
[A.E] We’ve gotten this drummer question quite a few times now, but to be honest, I think we receive it just because of how transparent we are with the fact that it’s programmed. When we first showed the demo to some friends, a lot of them were surprised to learn they’re not real. M.B has done such a good job with them, in my opinion… Maybe we’ll have a real drummer in the future, but I don’t see what we would gain except if we had a really, really, really good one that has even better ideas than M.B. In real life, a lot of people have a hard time playing slow, you know. There are some crazy drummers out there where as soon as you slow down a couple of beats, they can’t keep up since a lot of these drummers want to play fast and do blast beats. Not a lot of them rehearse on slow tempos really. For a live setting though, it’s another story. We would love to play live eventually, but like M.B mentioned, the logistics are quite complex.
11. What is in the future for Funelore? Your Bandcamp says there’s more to come this year, will we get a Full-Length?
[M.B] We are working very hard on our first album right now and are hoping it’ll all be finished by the end of the year. As for right now, we are currently waiting on the release of our CD and cassette tape versions of The Dissolution of Consciousness from Dark Descent Records. We would also like to get some merchandise and other goodies rolling out in the future.
9. Being that your first release is an EP and not a demo, can we expect this style to stay or do you plan on things changing in the future?
[M.B] Our first full-length that we are working on is definitely going to remain more so in the style of The Dissolution of Consciousness, but will have a slightly different atmosphere. Originally, we intended to have “The Dissolution of Consciousness” on our full-length, as this release was planned to be purely a demo. After some time though, we felt like it sounded perfect the way it was, and upscaling the song would make it lose its special charm. “Tides in Agony” was a song that would be separate from our full-length, but it seemed to go hand in hand with “The Dissolution”. Having either one of these songs on our full-length felt out of place, hence why we decided to refer to this release as a “demo EP”. Anyways, our first album is going to have a darker tone with much more “death metal” influences portrayed. We already have a lot more material to come after our full-length where our sound will switch up quite a bit. We like to keep things fresh and constantly evolve the sound of Funelore. All of the songs featured on our full-length will be older compositions A.E and I have been fleshing out for a while now.
10. Do you plan on getting a drummer? If so, would you ever take Funelore to the stage?
[M.B] Right now as we are currently unsigned and have no deals going on, we don’t necessarily have the biggest budget to gather musicians to play with us. A.E and I collaborate remotely since we both live in different provinces, which comes with its ups and downs. Obviously, the downside is that playing live together would be a bit more costly due to travel expenses, and since we are only a duo, we would probably have to hire session musicians to fill in for the other roles as well. The upside is that we aren’t under any pressure to behave in any certain way. We both have complete creative freedom and are able to thrive in our own personal spaces without the constraints of having to prepare for band practice, or finish things on a deadline, for example. But, of course, we would love to perform live together someday. Not to get too ahead of ourselves, but we may have some opportunities to pursue in the near future in terms of live performances, and we’re consistently striving to make that work out.
[A.E] We’ve gotten this drummer question quite a few times now, but to be honest, I think we receive it just because of how transparent we are with the fact that it’s programmed. When we first showed the demo to some friends, a lot of them were surprised to learn they’re not real. M.B has done such a good job with them, in my opinion… Maybe we’ll have a real drummer in the future, but I don’t see what we would gain except if we had a really, really, really good one that has even better ideas than M.B. In real life, a lot of people have a hard time playing slow, you know. There are some crazy drummers out there where as soon as you slow down a couple of beats, they can’t keep up since a lot of these drummers want to play fast and do blast beats. Not a lot of them rehearse on slow tempos really. For a live setting though, it’s another story. We would love to play live eventually, but like M.B mentioned, the logistics are quite complex.
11. What is in the future for Funelore? Your Bandcamp says there’s more to come this year, will we get a Full-Length?
[M.B] We are working very hard on our first album right now and are hoping it’ll all be finished by the end of the year. As for right now, we are currently waiting on the release of our CD and cassette tape versions of The Dissolution of Consciousness from Dark Descent Records. We would also like to get some merchandise and other goodies rolling out in the future.
Some oddball questions to end:
1. What are your interests outside of music? Any other hobbies?
[M.B] Outside of music, I like to spend my time reading things or going on bike rides when the weather is nice, which doesn’t happen too often because it seems to always be blistering cold for 80% of the year over here. Sometimes I’ll do a bit of gaming or watch movies and shows, but yeah, listening to and writing music has taken up almost all of my free time for years now.
[A.E] I do like gaming, maybe a bit too much, even if I don’t game that much compared to some die hard gamers, I should play guitar more. I’m a huge fromsoft fan and that’s pretty much all I play generally. Other than that, I like to go on bike rides and I also do chainmail in my free time, mostly jewelry. Taking cemetery pictures is also fun. I should go actually right now, in the summer people put up flowers.
2. Have you ever had a paranormal experience?
[M.B] I personally haven’t experienced anything, but I’ve heard stories from many other people in my life about such. I’ve always been a skeptic regarding these things, so I’m not totally convinced, but it is hard to deny the fact that we truly know so little about this world, so who knows.
3. Favorite season?
[M.B] My favourite season is definitely autumn. I’ve never been a fan of extremely cold weather, and I kind of dread the summer time, so autumn is the perfect balance of both.
[A.E] I like spring.
4. What are some peeves you have about other modern Funeral Doom/Metal in general?
[M.B] I personally don’t have too many peeves with funeral doom, maybe besides the fact that some bands sound way too similar, but that goes for a good chunk of metal bands, and I guess sometimes excessively “cavernous” sounding stuff can be annoying for me to listen to. For metal as a whole, obviously I don’t like djent or other genres of that kind at all.
[A.E] When something sounds ‘’too good’, I need dirt & crudeness. There are not a lot of these overly produced sounds in funeral doom fortunately.
5. Favorite albums, Metal or non-Metal?
[M.B] For metal, I would say my favourite albums would have to be the classics such as Quietus by Evoken, Onward to Golgotha by Incantation, Here in After by Immolation, Brave Murder Day / Sounds of Decay from Katatonia, The Angel & The Dark River from My Dying Bride, Adramelech - Psychostasia, Eucharist - A Velvet Creation, Funebrarum - Beneath The Columns of Abandoned Gods, Darkthrone - Under a Funeral Moon and so so many more. I could really go on about metal forever. For non-metal, I really enjoy King Crimson’s - Red, The Doors’ debut, Joy Division’s debut, Spiderland from Slint, Harmony in Ultraviolet by Tim Hecker, and the first few albums from Fugazi.
[A.E] Aside from our most obvious influences like Evoken & diSEMBOWELMENT, and from the top of my head, my favourite metal albums would include Tyranny’s Tides Of Awakening, most of Mournful Congregation’s material, Saturnine by Profetus and Netherwards by Anhedonist for the much slower side of things… Grisly Aftermath by Mortal Decay, Musta Sermonia from Rippikoulu, The Sad Realm of the Stars by Odium, Sigil of Baphomet by Imprecation or Angelcunt by Archgoat for the more classic metal sound. I do enjoy a lot of non metal music as well, mostly dungeon synth like Castle of Sand from Jim Kirkwood, Enchantment Of The Ring by Secret Stairways, anything by Ghoëst and much more. Also stuff like Oath Of The Paladins by Gloomy Reflections, which has been on repeat since its release. Dio’s Holy Diver, the very controversial Turbo by Judas Priest, or even post punk, mostly newer bands like Second Still.
Thanks for taking the time in this interview, I love being able to get thoughts from newer bands. Especially in the Fundoom scene. If there is anything else you wish to add, you may do so below:
[M.B] I don’t have too much else to add besides thanks to you for writing to us, and everyone else for taking the time to listen to our music and support Funelore. A.E and I are both very excited to finish up our first album and show everyone what else we have been working hard on.
[A.E] Thanks for reaching out and spreading the word. We are here to stay and already have an album and much more written. Stay cool and ignore bad folks.
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