Like a dreary crawl through the dank underbrush of a dying forest,
Winter's
Eternal Frost EP offered what many consider the last word in obscure,
lo-fi death/
doom. Proof positive that the mysterious New York trio had descended to a musical equivalent of the Mariana Trench, songs like
"Servants of the Warsmen," "Winter," and
"Blackwhole" echoed with a morbid, fathomless despair capable of shell-shocking even the most experienced of
doom metal fans. Only slightly faster-paced, on average, than
Winter's lone full album,
Into Darkness,
Eternal Frost shares two of its five tracks with the same, and both releases were later combined into a single 1999 CD reissue by
Nuclear Blast. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia