This is the second self-produced demo for Lord Grief, an American one-man band that plays melodic and lysergic funeral doom.

"An Abyss of Loss" is a great demo, characterized by an extremely original approach able to take the influences of bands like Summoning, Pantheist and Novembers Doom together with a more extreme darkness and tremendous slowness.

The four songs that compose this demo totaling over 20 minutes are rather original as its style certainly doesn't represent a standard copy of the typical sound coming from the current prolific period in funeral doom.

"Trust in Misery" the opener of this demo is rather indicative of this point of view; introduced by some extremely melodic riffing and a violin dirge in My Dying Bride-style, but afterwards the riffing becomes more decadent and obssessive, and then in particular come the vocals of Lord Grief based on a nearly whispered growling that spreads a veil black as pitch over this song.

The riffing succeeds however in maintaining a melodic-line throughout, even in the more extreme moments, while here and there are scattered fleeting moments of light, but they are never the victor over the darkness transmitted by the rest of this song.

And it's this very characteristic that emerges as more hits me of this demo, the ability of the band to change the humors and rhythms without warning in the same song but not following a schedule, while also not exaggerating the length of the songs (about 6 minutes each).

The successive songs more or less portray the same things as the opener, from moments that we find optimal intuitions to others where the tension comes down. Even so, the extremely desperate "Death of Agony" probably represents the best track of this demo.