REVIEW: FUNERAL TEARS – Your Life My Death

 

FUNERAL TEARS – Your Life My Death

Marche Funèbre Productions

This Russian one‑man band doesn’t leave much to assumption. Even its moniker points directly to the musical path it follows—funeral doom metal in its purest, most uncompromising form. Your Life My Death serves as a representative introduction to what the genre embodies. If I had to frame funeral doom in my own words, I’d say it’s a style driven less by riffs or technical exploration and more by the emotions it summons and the bleak, suffocating atmospheres it constructs.

Listeners rarely approach funeral doom expecting experimentation or standout guitar work. What they seek is that slow, creeping darkness—the sense of descent, the weight of ambience, the emotional gravity. In that regard, FUNERAL TEARS succeeds. The album consistently delivers the right mood, channeling the genre’s characteristic despair and stillness with sincerity.

However, taking into account the broader metal audience, this debut—while solid—doesn’t necessarily offer something so distinctive that it will convert listeners outside the funeral doom niche. It’s a faithful execution of the genre rather than a reinvention of it.

So the rating I give reflects an attempt to balance both perspectives: the general metal listener and the dedicated funeral doom devotee. If you belong to the latter group, the score rises, and Your Life My Death becomes a release you’ll likely want to explore.

Christine  Parastatidou