'Funeral Dance' begins on a very somber note, synths playing a ghostly chorus, giving the impression of being slowly surrounded by dense fog - slowly rising, enveloping you, covering all in a shroud of grey. Soon a distinct melody is made clear that reccurs throughout this mammoth track, slowly ebbing and fading away at moments, soon to return again. There are very subtle changes during the track, it may take you a few listens to fully realise what is going on, and I think headphones are strongly adivised. Once you begin to know 'Funeral Dance', then it has the full potential to suck you deep into it's void.... 'Funeral Dance' is certainly a fitting title for this track, the way it moves ever-so-s l o o o o w l y but a tune is still distinct in their somewhere is like a slow last dance with death, before sending you off into a great funeral in deepest space... And that is where, appropriatley, the extended version of 'Marche Funebre' comes in. This time the middle section of the song edited from the version on 'Prelude To Monolith' is added, adding a whole new bleak funereal atomsphere to this great tribute to one of the earliest funeral music composers Frederic Chopin. This classic piece ends this chapter of UDOM for now and the 'Funeral Path' is shut, making you wonder what comes next for this project?..... I don't expect UDOM to fully abandon their 'doom' side, as the original version of 'Funeral Dance' shows, but if there is any indication by the ambient version of 'Funeral Dance', then I certainly expect the ambient parts of the band to become more prominent in future recordings. This is definitley the most ambitious of all the UDOM recordings so far, and despite the fact that some fans of doom may feel alienated by this album due to the fact that guitar(?) is used so sparsley and unconventionally thoughout it, I must say that with 'Interludium I - Funeral Path' Stijn has succeeded.