Mourners Lament has announced its sophomore full-length, A Grey Farewell, to be released on 2 August via Personal Records on CD format, and unveiled the first track, "Towards Abandonment".

Formed in 2004, Mourners Lament is a doom/death metal band from Viña del Mar, Chile. During its first years, the band released a demo in 2004 and then an EP, Unbroken Solemnity, in 2008. Those two recordings launched the quintet onto numerous gigs within the Chilean doom scene, some with classic bands like Poema Arcanus and Mar de Grises.

Line-up changes followed during the following years, and Mourners Lament underwent a minor silent period while preparing its debut album. Titled We All Be Given, the band's first full-length was released in 2016 by esteemed national label Canometal Records and Hammerheart Records the following year. A new line-up was established in 2019, which brought fresh sounds and spirit to the band, resulting in the new EP, Grieving At A Distance, in 2022 and the band's first adventure in European territory that same year.

After the Euro tour, the band started the process of a new album. A Grey Farewell easily eclipses its not-inconsiderable full-length predecessor. Here, Mourners Lament erects a towering monument to misery: six songs in nearly 65 minutes; the album is an emotional and dark journey across a majestic and melancholic landscape. Undoubtedly, it's pure doom/death metal by definition - riffs crush and then reverberate, rhythms lumber before nearly disappearing into darkness, guttural vocals either meld with both or play counterpart, and icy, almost-sensual synths flow with subtlety and a quiet power - but Mourners Lament proves to be masterful songwriters, patiently building arcs that unfold the dark drama and bittersweet emotion, and then seamlessly threading the whole experience together as one unified work that's equally spacious and suffocating. That there's a bit more polish here only makes A Grey Farewell better, particularly given the band's penchant for dynamic quietude. It would not be hyperbole to suggest that A Grey Farewell is perhaps one of the best modern examples of pure doom/death metal that imparts its personality. Some 20 years after its formation, Mourners Lament has truly arrived! Link