From: Forgotten Path Magazine; Issue 8
Published: November 2016
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No one would deny that Australia always had a considerably strong and varied scene in most Extreme Metal styles. Doom Metal is not so much of an exception. Names like Disembowelment (now incarnated as Inverloch) and Mournful Congregation make Doom Metal’lers around the world bow their heads in reverence. It is highly possible that these entities are not the only ones to turn Doom Metal listeners’ attention and i...

Published: July 29, 2016

For a couple minutes, “Embittered,” the highlight from Subterranean Disposition’s Contagiuum And The Landscapes Of Failure, sounds like it’s going to be another, albeit more texturally intriguing, death/doom song. Then, it drops into a spiky section reminiscent of Starkweather or Today Is The Day before introducing a wonderful, and wonderfully contrasting, guest spot by Gelareh Pour. Hello, left field! Masterminded by Australian Terr...

Published: July 8, 2016

Through no fault of my own I find myself constantly listening to brilliant doom albums. Most that know me, know I love this sort of music (even if they don’t fully understand why). Hailing from Melbourne, Australia comes Subterranean Disposition (backed by Solitude Productions and Hypnotic Dirge Records) and their second release, aptly titled: ‘Contagiuum and the Landscapes of Failure’. As it stands I can see just how 2016 is sh...

Published: June 27, 2016

*Mild spoiler alert: a fraction over three minutes into this album, it was already becoming clear that there would be a sizeable number waiting at the end of this review. That just happens to be the time it takes to run through the delicately-introduced and dramatic instrumental introduction, and for the sublimely-crafted instrumental layers being fed into 'Wooden Kimono Fixative' to have built up guitar, drums, bass and introduce the f...

Published: June 25, 2016

Subterranean Disposition is a one-man band from Melbourne, Australia. Its founder, Terry Vainoras, has been participating in various metal, different-genre projects (Damaged– grindcore, Earth– melodic death, Order Of Chaos– hardcore, Insomnious Dei– doom, among others). He has been collecting valuable musical experience from these projects through the years, and is mainly inspired by the music himself and Mark Kelson of I...

Published: June 23, 2016

The debut from Melbourne’s Subterranean Disposition was an enthralling slab of doom with the inclusions of saxophone, female vocals and touches of other outside influences keeping it interesting from beginning to end. Contagiuum and the Landscapes of Failure does exactly what a sophomore album should, it improves on every element and expands the sound even further.

The saxophone is back within the first five minutes to set the mood, i...

Published: June 17, 2016

It’s the weekend! What better way to get it started than with the latest installment of “Funeral Doom Friday”. This weekly column looks to shed some light onto some of the darkest, most depressing, and discordant metal out there. Funeral Doom stems from the deepest depths of Death-Doom and Dirge music. Each week, the goal is to highlight some of the newest music or rediscover classic works from some of the earliest bands and orig...

Published: June 15, 2016

I thought I'd end this edition with one that I thought should be right up my alley and whaddya know? It is! Do I know myself or what?!? Death, doom and awesome. I listen to a ton of music but I always come back to doom when in doubt. More importantly to get me worked up it has to offer something different than the crowd since the crowd of doom bands seems to be getting more than a little ridiculous. SD keep it fresh with the i...

Published: June 10, 2016

The biggest mistake that any band can make is to stall progress and play it safe. It’s noticeable when a band simply chooses to cash in and make the same record over and over again without any sort of progression, no matter how minor. Typically, these bands end up losing fans over time, largely due to their inability to make their songs sound different from one another. Subterranean Disposition are a doom band that set out to cha...

Published: June 10, 2016

It has been a long, long time since multi-instrumentalist Terry Vainoras’s tenure in short-lived doom metal duo InSomnius Dei. Once a random MySpace find (remember when MySpace was a valid catalyst for discovering new music?) a decade ago, this all-but-defunct Australian band seamlessly blended classic Peaceville death/doom metal with the panchromatic psychedelia of Pink Floyd’s classic works. Hindsight has rendered Illusions of ...

Published: June 9, 2016

Subterranean Disposition is described in their bio as “a solo Melodic doom/death metal/ ambient recording project” from the mind of founder Terry Vainoras.  I actually like this description better than the listed genre.  While listening to the album, I became entranced by the melodies and the ambient sense of finality and ruin within the music.  Each song forged a different landscape that could be vividly pictured in my mind, all of...

Published: June 7, 2016

When one thinks of Australian metal, one tends to look towards the more progressive and technical in nature. But bands like Subterranean Disposition continue to lurk in the shadows with their bleak and cold vision of darkness. Four years since their self-titled debut, the band has returned with a new release that does bring a very progressive form of metal, but in this case – its doom metal.

Falling nicely into place with the avant-garde...

Published: June 6, 2016

Arriving from Australia, today we have one-man battalion Subterranean Disposition’s second full-length released titled “Contagiuum and the Landscapes of Failure”. Delivering over 60 minutes of crushing Death/Doom, the band keeps things fresh by adding extra atmospheric elements that blend very well together. Perfectly crafted for fans of slow and painful Doom music, this release is filled with unique ideas and interes...

Published: May 18, 2016

Subterranean  Disposition  are  a  solo  project  from  Australia  that  plays  an  avant  garde  mixture  of  doom  and  death  metal  and  this  is  a  review  of  his  2016  album  "Contagium  And  The  Landscapes  of  Failure"  which   will  be  released  in  June  by  Hypnotic  Dirge  Records.

 Nature  sounds  along  with  some  clean  guitar  playing  starts  off  the  album  and  after  a  minute  the  music  goes  into  more  ...