Listen: Funeral Circle’s Late Entry For Best-Of-Year Honors

Team MetalSucks is gearing up to unveil about four miles of year-end lists, and so should you, cherished MS readers! Sure, it’s only late November, which means that some 2013 albums are still to be released — and others have arrived too recently to be viewed in proper context or whatever. That’s tricky. But we press on, so please join us in the comments with your favorites, perspectives, and discoveries! Don’t fall in with the clueless five percent who get all bonermad and insulty about innocent opinions, lest ye be doomed to a long life of delayed embarrassment and lonely, angry days. You’re better than that! You’re one of us!!

But before you complete your personal list of 2013’s mega-est jamz, check in with a late-year super gem by Funeral Circle. Its appeal is genre-proof, but still you’ll see the term “epic doom” attached to their vibe. Sure, the self-titled album crawls and slogs (“doom”) and its guitar solos echo across canyons like traded bursts from drowsy machine guns (“epic”). Few moments aim to crush, though, which leads this discussion to FC’s singer, Adrian Miles. This dude is a stud, his vocals an emissary from the ’80s of Candlemass (via portent) and, like, post-Depeche Mode new wave (via vulnerability, imploring). FC doesn’t soundtrack an apocalypse, rather a wanderer’s quest for consciousness. Smoke it up crank it up!