The Skull is an absolute highlight in the history of doom. Slow torturous riffs, emotional guitar solos and songs that drag themselves forth at such a slow and brooding pace you can't help but be captured by them. Very nice melodic sections, often followed by long, mournful solos. Simply superb! Any self-respecting doom fan needs to own this album!

Trouble come pounding back with a record destined to become their thickest, most dream-like and drowsy of a catalogue marked by brilliance from day one. The Skull is almost the eccentric crazy relative, slipping into a lethargic thrash through shuddering fatigue. Still a marvelous nightmare to behold, there's something overly loose and panic-stricken about this record, an unease which takes over a dirge like "The Wish" and the masochistic title track. Of the formidable Trouble repertoire, The Skull will forever reign as the most buried and lost unto itself, most inwardly cancerous, maybe the most frightening.