From Funeral Skies may sound as a complete waste of time and money for traditional music listeners but for the more “unconventional” collector The Ethereal is a band that goes beyond music, emphasizing every tune on creating an atmosphere that leaves you with an empty feeling hard to forget.

Just four tracks all amounting to almost an hour of playing time, Funeral Doom Metal at it’s best, heavy distorted guitars, grunts and a monotonous keyboard and piano making every tune a complete expression of hopeless desperation.

The best way to describe what this album can do for you is depicted on the piano keys, there is a sort of anticipation, and anticipation to your last happy idea or existentialist hope, “Beyond All Dreams” shows you the dark valley hidden in your soul, and “Your Creation” establishes the rhythm in which your thoughts and ideas will be destroyed while you walk through this valley.

Every track is a slumber of instruments and a slow peregrination through heavy and distorted atmospheres, there is really no escape from sadness and abandonment.

Four tracks that make you feel, but what about the actual music development on the tracks; like I said earlier, every song points at your emotions rather than at your ability to comprehend and follow a tune, therefore it may bore you quite easily when you begin to see the minutes go by and you realize that there is no “catchy tune” around the corner.

“From Funeral Skies” has a big impact on your mood and your state of mind, it depresses you, it bores you intentionally and opens you up to a complete state of slumber; if you like music that goes beyond tunes and catchy phrases this album will be good addition to your collection.