Silent Tombs | Mourning Hymns From Beyond | Personal Records

 

Release Date: October 17, 2025

Format: CD

Genre: DoomDeath Metal

Country: Mexico

Silent Tombs hail from Colima, Mexico, and first emerged in 2016. Born from the collaboration of musicians already active in the Mexican extreme scene, the band carries a history tied to acts like Demonic Manifestation, Ravenous Death, Noxifer, Altumtenebris, and Wolves. Their debut step came in 2018 with the EP “The Slipping Away Of All Hope”, and after several lineup shifts, the group found stability with Enrique Martínez and Arturo Delgado on guitars, Mauricio González on bass, Felipe González on drums, and Victor Mercado taking over vocals. With this formation, the long-awaited full-length “Mourning Hymns From Beyond” now arrives through Personal Records.

Across 11 tracks Silent Tombs delivera a work drenched in grief and menace. The album moves between crushingly slow passages and sudden storms of rhythm, drawing power from the contrasts of suffocating despair and surging drive. Guitars carry mournful melodies, twisting sorrow into something vast and unrelenting, while the vocals roar with a guttural depth that matches the heaviness of the atmosphere. The rhythm section adds gravity, whether dragging the listener through funereal marches or pounding ahead with grim determination.

“Mourning Hymns From Beyond” is deeply rooted in the doom/death tradition, echoing the lineage of bands like early Anathema, Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride while keeping a modern sharpness in its melancholy. Silent Tombs do not shy away from stretching songs into long and immersive narratives, where repetition and tension work hand in hand to create an oppressive and strangely captivating experience.

The album’s emotional current never falters. Whether the guitars sing with mournful harmony or collapse into thunderous dissonance, whether the drums crawl or surge, the sense of ruin and loss remains constant. It is not simply heavy; it is crushing in the truest sense, an album that embodies sorrow as much as it does rage. By the time “Drowned In Oblivion” closes the album, the listener has traveled through a landscape of decay, twilight, and grief, one that resonates with a harsh beauty.

This debut establishes Silent Tombs as a name to watch in the doom/death world, delivering an album that carries heaviness and atmosphere in equal measure, while offering enough variety to sustain its long runtime. For anyone drawn to the darker ends of metal, “Mourning Hymns From Beyond” is an album worth sinking into.

Score: 7.5

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