June 10, 2016 marks the official release of Sins Of The Elders, the debut full-length from New England-based doom collective, CONCLAVE. Captured at Raven's Head Studio in Allston, Massachusetts with Eric Braunschweiger at the recording helm, with Sins Of The Elders CONCLAVE -- which features within its ranks Warhorse, Grief, Disrupt, Desolate, and Martyrvor alumni -- fuses their death and doom influences into a unique amalgam of heavy grooves, pounding sludge and melodic doom. Sins Of The Elders boasts nine grisly tracks of staggeringly heavy and atmospheric oppression - pure and honest metal in an uncompromised form.

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"Punishing... CONCLAVE are stellar song writers and they know how to engage the listener with riffs you can feel beyond surface level." - Cvlt Nation

 

"[Sins Of The Elders] expands both the command and the crush of that release [Breaking Ground] with an assured direction toward abysmal sludge, the metal of death, and consuming disaffection." - The Obelisk

 

"Taking an obvious love for all things Black Sabbath, Candlemass, Trouble, and Saint Vitus, Sins Of The Elders contains nine tracks of old school doom, drenched in slow, heavy riffs, plenty of atmosphere, and loads of menace." - Sea Of Tranquility

 

"The best thing to be said about CONCLAVE is their variety. From swaggering blues riffs, to alternate picked death metal riffs, they're just crossing vast, desolate lands of sound. Pained vocals buttressed by growls coexist with the guitars. The vocals are weaved in and out of the mix, from far in the back to right up front. Sins Of The Elders is the best doom metal to cross my desk in 2016." - Glacially Musical