Like Black Sabbath’s doomy 1970 debut, …In The Absence Of Light begins with the tolling of a bell and then a massive, low, very slow riff. But if Sabbath’s darkness are what you got at the end of the ’60s when the hippy dream soured and the shadow of Vietnam loomed large, East Anglian death-doomsters Grief Symposium are what happens when you shovel another 53 years of misery on top of it. Principally made up of members of ’90s doom outfit Entwined and more recent death metal outfit, the excellent The King Is Blind, Grief Symposium know their way around heaviness and how to deploy it. Mostly, The Absence Of Light is doom of the most supremely heavy type, calling to mind the crushing misery of the earliest works by much-missed Coventry doom standard bearers Cathe...