Throughout the album’s eight tracks, Mother of Graves pay respects to their elders while showing what can be done to progress a well-loved sound. Where the Shadows Adorn radiates with a sincere ache of moments and people lost to death and time, with the opening title track mournfully setting the mood with Brandon Howe’s haunting keyboard melody before guitarists Chris Morrison and Ben Sandman channel their love of all things Paradise Lost and Katatonia simultaneously to great effect. In no way is this meant as a put-down, nor is it a band that’s just aping melodies and sadboi vibes, mind you. This is a new band? From Indianapolis, Indiana?! Yes, gang, Mother of Graves is here with their debut full-length, Where the Shadows Adorn, and it’s the most 90s-sounding doom/death I’ve heard in quite some time. 1 2 I’m talking about reminiscing of Days both Brave and Murderous, of paradise being lost, and of flowers withering.
Kiddos, it’s time to revisit the sounds of early 90s doom/death. As autumn attempts to blow its crisp, leaf-scented breeze through the still-humid, still-swamp-assy climes of Northeastern Florida, I can’t help but reach for my own aural equivalent of a pumpkin spice latte, a sound so comfortable that it’s akin to slipping on a well-worn hoodie that’s seen better days.
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