Rigor Sardonicous, Mournful Congregation, Profetus, Beneath Oblivion, Woebegone Obscured, Ea, and Funeral Moth have released albums which have been compared...

Harrison in The Guardian wrote that "from the jug-bands of Memphis to the woebegone country blues of the Appalachian Mountains, early 20th-century America...

unsightly" and that the "whole place previous to restoration struck one as woebegone and neglected; it perpetually seemed to hover on the verge of collapse...