Eibon, not to be confused with the Phil Anselmo/Fenriz band, is a French doom act named after Clark Ashton Smith's Book of Eibon, a tome of great and terrible power. Fittingly, the music they play is hypnotic and repulsive, a black tar pit full of bones. Sludgy vocals alternate with frenzied, barely audible sounds of panic and madness, as if the narrator was slowly losing his mind. The occasional blast beat/tremolo part crops up from time to time, but only to heighten the weighty slowness of the rest of the album. A must have, one of my favorite releases of last year.
