Breath is a compromise. Heart beat is a compromise... So what? Let yourself die and let your body rot. Putrefaction is real cadaveric integrity!A few metallers might remember of a French band called SEPULCHRAL that released two demos and was a part of the "Obscurum per obscurum" split CD in 1992, but there's no link with this SEPULCRAL. This Italian band plays a kind of Death metal being very close to doom: A lot of the beats are slow or mid-paced, but this is not the only aspect from the spectrum of the curse... Their style is rather based on the will to create an atmosphere, and there's an old black metal mood in the "fog" to appear here and there...The guitars sound dark due to the fact it's mostly based on low frequencies, the vocals are also low pitched, but hopefully the drums are quite clear and make the whole a bit more balanced.The vocals are average, a bit like ASPHYX on "Embrace the death", but less convincing.I'm not too thrilled by their faster Death metal parts, this sounds weaker compared to their doomier riffs.All in all you could imagine the whole sounds influenced by the doomy or mid-paced parts from these records (With probably less epicness): ASPHYX ("Embrace the death"), VIOGRESSION (First and perhaps 2nd album), MORGOTH ("Cursed"), a bit of WINTER ("Into darkness"), touches of slow ooold DEATH ("Leprosy") or HELLHAMMER (For the easy riffs), with fast death metal parts that could remind of early "morbid thrash" bands.With this record SEPULCRAL is not a revelation, and to me they still sound like demo stuff, but their music contains quite good atmospheres and quite good doomy riffs. So those who need something from the lands of doom might find some nice moments to rest in their coffin.