Thrones - Late For Dinner [Single]

This dude Joe Preston is better known under the pseudonym of the barraging doom metal one man project Thrones. It’s a project with which he has sporadically released a few efforts under including a hand full of EPs split records and compilations but only one full length, 1996’s Alraune. Preston has been a man known to get around within metal’s doom, sludge and drone circles though, collaborating or being involved with the likes of Sunn O))), Earth and High On Fire.

Late For Dinner is a mere single, delivering only two tracks and is the first slab of new material from Thrones since the White Rabbit EP in 2000, and the newest release after Day Late, Dollar Short compilation of 2005. However despite this being the freshest wedge of filthy squalid doom in five to ten years Late For Dinner may not want to be what is read on Preston’s epitaph.

Nonetheless, it’s by no means a bad effort. First track and the only with vocals, 'Wage War' is heaving with devastating heaviness that feels like it can’t be contained within speakers. Meanwhile the corrosive vocals have a stampeding quality throughout making the track’s five minutes gruelling.

Similarly, the instrumental, 'Trmph Lfe' keeps the tremulous riffing going only slowing things down more. The mountain valley-like riffs grow and grow and at times, almost become excruciatingly unhurried and are affixed with typical doom metal lethargy.

In its two rudimentary tracks Late For Dinner might make a nice addition to a sprawling doom collection but alone it’s anything but necessary or essential.

6/10