by Eduardo RivadaviaThe wonderfully decrepit merger of death and doom metal -- known, conveniently enough, as death\u002Fdoom -- has enjoyed something of a renaissance in the mid '00s; with several new bands like Swallow the Sun, Draconian, and Ahab (to name but a few), proving themselves worthy of stylistic forbearers like Paradise Lost and Katatonia, and helping to hoist this bleak but sublime metallic subgenre out from under the moist cemetery earth once again. You might as well add France's Inborn Suffering to their ranks, too, for the Paris-based sextet have produced a perfectly valid passport to gain them entry into this fledgling new death\u002Fdoom nation, in the shape of a stellar 2006 debut album named Wordless Hope. Although it's actually a clean, … Read more