It only takes a few bars of the title track "House Of Doom" and you finally feel safe again in the hands of the ultimate minor songwriter Leif Edling: driving riffing, melancholy cast in sound and warm Hammond carpets are the classic building blocks of an epic candlemass ripper! The brooding monster "Flowers Of Deception" tightens the doom screws even more consistently, before the EP draws to a close with the ballad "Fortuneteller" and the ultra-tough "Dolls On A Wall". The Swedish pioneers of timeless slowness have once again succeeded in distilling the essence of the epic doom metal they coined on House Of Doom - and at the same time they make all fans' mouths water for the longplayer to follow in autumn 2018..