Revelations of Rain perform melodic death/doom on _Mramornye Tona Otchayaniya_ ("Marble Shades of Despair"), too oppressive and bonecrushingly heavy to fall under the romantic radar, yet too light to be considered funeral doom, comfortably straddling the two extremes of deathy doom with a delicate balancing act of aggression and melody.

They are not the only or even first band to attempt this balancing act, but are one of the few to avoid falling into gothic melodrama. Not that their music isn't dramatic, merely that it doesn't rely on tired dark pop conventions, but rather on the combination of crushing riffs and soaring keys to create a depressive ambience, whilst their use of melody provides an accessibility without depleting its mournful nature. There are strong similarities with a certain English doom band, but I suppose that comparisons are inevitable regarding a band at this stage of their career performing the music they do.

However, their songs do tend to meander a bit unnecessarily, even accounting for the conventions of the genre, thus losing some of their bite and becoming a tad repetitive. Despite this, it remains an above average and welcome entrant to Slavic doom.