Title song From These Wounds is a mournful dirge of a song but the subtle orchestration and melody gives it a warm almost inviting feel. Also, the interplay between the heavy doom parts and the softer melodic parts is done superbly.
While it all sounds quite mournful and melancholy, the melodies stick in your head. Those who find Type O Negative's music to be too ironic and humorous will perhaps be an ideal audience for this album, as I find it is much like what would happen if World Coming Down were to have an existential crisis after taking a bit too much Valium.
However, it's grown on me over time, and I see it now as being a pretty excellent slice of dreary melodic doom. As I had been a big fan of the band's early material with female vocals (those albums being Tragedies and In Fields of Pestilent Grief), I initially found it difficult to get into the more modern, goth-drenched sound of this album. As this album followed the suicide of Einar Andre Fredriksen, the songwriting duties were passed on solely to Kjetil Ottersen and Anders Eek, reflecting a significant change in style. Though their line-up has changed pretty severely over time, the band's trademark sound has always consisted of an extremely slow and stoic brand of doom metal. Funeral is a band that I have kept tabs on for the past several years and really come around to appreciate their discography as a whole.
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