On first listen, I did quite like Lycanthia’s ‘Oligarchy’ as a mood-setter: it has the gently twanging lead guitar lines, keening violin melodies, and pretty decent operatic female vocal/growled male vocal duo that make a good gothic/doom metal album. There’s some luscious and tasty composition elements in here, particularly in the classical-influenced sections, but I felt that something was not quite sitting right, and it eve...