Godthrymm

doom metal

The doom metal band GODTHRYMM is led by Hamish Glencross, former guitarist for My Dying Bride which he joined in 2000. He left My Dying Bride in 2014, citing irreconcilable differences, and shifted his focus to Vallenfyre, the band he co-founded with Paradise Lost guitarist Gregor Mackintosh. When that band split up in 2018, Glencross was able to make GODTHRYMM his main project. Reflections is their first full-length following a pair of EPs, and it feels like the album Glencross was born to make. It’s very much in the tradition of the Peaceville Three’s gothic death/doom, but Glencross sounds emboldened by his new role as frontman, and there’s a palpable energy to these songs that constantly threatens to boil over. Songs like “Monsters Lurk Herein” and “We Are the Dead” bring the epic, stately mournfulness in spades, but they’re also massive hard rock songs, smuggling hooks in alongside the lachrymose tones. For two decades, Glencross has proved he has a gift for making the morose memorable. On Reflections, he unleashes that talent more fully than ever before. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.