of pure gothique morbidity. Obvious comparisons should always be avoided by the experienced and adroit reviewer yet I will not hesitate to point out that British misery masters Cathedral are owed considerable debt here, particular with regard to the low throaty and drawn-out singing of Liam Yates. What particularly works well for my ears is the swirling lavishness of Matt Ford's gorgeous Hammond organ (RIP oh Jon Lord) which lends more than a bucket full of prime Hammer House pomp and mystique to BM's robust doom template. 'Four Thieves Vinegar' continues to nail the classic baroque doom with grand and studied aplomb. Huge swollen guitar (courtesy of the fabulously titled Kyle Roy Nesbitt) and spiralling organ weave a heady fug around insistent vocal intonations. Towards the end of the track the tempo ratchets up as Liam growls 'Bring out your dead' like some shroud-enveloped cankerous boil-infested harbinger of medieval manners. 'Of Ghosts And Their Worship' (if you're listening on vinyl this is track one on side two) is a eerie pastoral jaunt down the overgrown and serpentine bends of a near-silent country lane at dusk. Acoustic guitar and subtle organ meld to evoke delicious childhood memories cowering in my pyjamas whilst soaking up the grainy eeriness of vintage British horror, from the oft-shocking 'Blood On Satan's Claw' to the rural and claustrophobic brutality of 'Witchfinder General' and the nausea-inducing sickness of both series of 'Hammer House of Horror' in the very early eighties. A word too here to the grotesque