Review from ZWareMetalen

July 9, 2016
From: ZWareMetalen
Published: July 7, 2016

Australië heeft ons heel wat geweldige, vernieuwende bands gebracht, maar Subterranean Disposition is niet geweldig, al doet het heel hard z’n best vernieuwend te zijn. De tweede plaat van allesdoener Terry Vainoras, Contagiuum and the Landscapes of Failure is in twee worden samen te vatten: niet goed.

Wat kan doom/deathmetal toch ongenadig saai zijn. Ellenlange nummers die tot niets leiden en riffs die voortkabbelen zonder ooit enig doel te bereiken. Deprimerend is het wel, maar helaas niet vanwege een geslaagde sfeerschepping. De grunts van Vainoras hadden deze plaat misschien nog enigszins kunnen redden, maar hij duwt zijn eigen nummers verder de dieperik in met een soort demonisch gekwaak. Ook de overige extra’s, waaronder klassieke gezangen en een vleugje elektronica slaan als een tang op een varken. Er is werkelijk niets aan deze plaat dat uitnodigt om het album nog een tweede kans te geven.

Laat de album- en songtitels een waarschuwing zijn: dit is echt een Landscape of Failure. Een luisterbeurt verzandt al snel in een Great Slumber. Heel slappe meuk dit Subterranean Disposition, al is Aggressors Clothed as Victims best wel een leuke afsluiter.

Rating: 60/100
Reviewed by: Willem Migom
 

Review from IYE Webzine

July 9, 2016
From: IYE Webzine
Published: June 29, 2016

Terry Vainoras è un musicista di un certo peso all’interno della scena doom australiana, essendo stato parte, sia pure in maniera fugace, di band come gli immensi Cryptal Darkness e della loro successiva incarnazione The Eternal, entrambe creature del più noto Mark Kelson, con il quale il nostro ha peraltro condiviso le sorti degli In Somnius Dei.

Contagiuum and the Landscapes of Failure è il secondo full length dei Subterranean Dispos...

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Review from Doom-Metal.com

July 9, 2016
From: Doom-Metal.com
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...

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Review from Last Day Leaf Reviews

July 9, 2016
From: Last Day Leaf Reviews
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...

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Review from Metal Obsession

July 9, 2016
From: Metal Obsession
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...

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Review from Metal Injection

June 18, 2016
From: Metal Injection
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...

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Review from Thy Demons Be Scribbling

June 18, 2016
From: Thy Demons Be Scribbling
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...

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Review from Heavy Blog is Heavy

June 10, 2016
From: Heavy Blog is Heavy
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...

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Review from Invisible Oranges

June 10, 2016
From: Invisible Oranges
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 ...

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Review from Mosh Pit Nation

June 9, 2016
From: Mosh Pit Nation
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...

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