Watching from a Distance

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Chris J Brilliant stuff, Beautifully Funereal I remember seeing someone call it, and..yeah. Crushingly heavy and crushingly slow, yet never feels meandering. The vocals are quite Michael Stipe-esque, and it perhaps ain't the most diverse record you'll ever hear, but if those aren't deal breakers (and for me, nowhere near, I'd almost say they're strengths), this is some of the best, most emotive Doom Metal you'll ever hear. Favorite track: Footprints.

Craig Collins I saw a meme a while back. The top panel had two women conversing, one says to the other "I can't believe he didn't cry during titanic!" and the other says "Do men even have feelings?". The bottom panel was the "Yes" chad head with a darkened face looking at this album cover. I think that meme accurately depicts how this album sounds. Favorite track: Faces.

trainh13 Probably the best doom album of the last 20 years. Patrick's vocals are heartbreaking and the instrumentation accentuates the pent up emotion at every opportunity. Cathartic yet pensive, it's required listening as far as I'm concerned. Favorite track: Watching from a Distance.

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1.	Watching from a Distance 12:06	buy track
2.	Footprints 07:31	buy track
3.	Bridges 11:30	buy track
4.	Faces 08:31	buy track
5.	Echoes 10:16	buy track

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WARNING celebrates 20 years of their groundbreaking album Watching from a Distance with a deluxe 4xLP box set, also featuring 2017’s legendary Live at Roadburn set.

Led by guitarist and vocalist Patrick Walker, every moment of WARNING's Watching from a Distance feels monumental; the album is widely considered to be one of the most emotionally-driven and profoundly Doom Metal records.

From the onset, the album's eponymous opener crawls with a sombre melody that carries the emotional heft of WARNING's musings on love and longing. The band's classic track "Footprints" showcases Walker's ability to match his colossal riffs with a visceral, gut-wrenching vulnerability that was previously unheard of. Walker ruminates about his weakest moments; his vocal deliveries ranging from dejection to despair. The end result is truly "heavy" in every sense of the word - and a timeless take on the genre with thundering drums, lead-pipe backing bass, and swirling guitars.

Fast-forward to the present day, and WARNING's introspective sensibilities resonate as hard as they ever have. Watching from a Distance showcases a band and moment in time that honed in on what "Doom" could really be.

"I leave behind me the ruins
Of the fortress I swore to defend
I leave behind me foundations,
I'll leave you a man I'll need you to mend

And through all the battles around me
I never believed I would fight,
Yet here I stand a broken soldier,
Shivering, naked, in your winter light"

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released December 15, 2017

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