Friday, March 27, 2009

Arcana Coelestia - Le Mirage de L'ideal (2009)

Genre : Ambient Funeral Black Doom
Country : Italy

This is the second Arcana Coelestia's album. In this album they play an awesome Funeral Black Doom with Ambient influences, obscure atmosphere, melodic riffs, depressive melodies, sorrowful keyboards, claustrophobic sound, screaming vocals, deep grunts, melancholic clean vocals, and some lyrical female voices.
This album is highly recommended!!!

For fans of Dictator, Urna, Nortt, The Austrasian Goat, Elysian Blaze, Furva Ambiguitas, Funeral Mourning and Forgotten Tomb.
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Release date : April 2009

1.Duskfall 10:55
2.Requiem (For The Fathomless Void Of Redemption) 08:18
3.Le Mirage de L'ideal 07:34
4.Tragedy & Delirium I - The Tragedy 05:34
5.Tragedy & Delirium II - The Delirium 06:46
6...Thus Fade in Nocturnal Deluge 10:27
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Total playing time 49:32

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Link to first album of the band :
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Eloxim & Inhumanist - Primordial Echoes (Split 2009)


This release contains tracks from 2 extreme bass bands. Eloxim plays Funeral Drone Doom with distorted basses, ultra-heavy melodies, melodic slow passages, and obscure sound. And Imhumanist plays Drone Doom with raw sound, distorted bass, noise influences, and crushing monotonous melodies. These bands are highly recommended for lovers of this extreme genre!

Thanks to my friend Ramiel for sharing this new release!

ELΩXIM

Genre : Drone Funeral Doom
Country : Greece

1.Abstract thoughts 20:22
2.Into the void 11:31
3.Serenity 15:41

Inhumanist

Genre : Drone Noise Doom
Country : Croatia

4.Beyond Nothingness 04:05
5.Helios 02:45
6.Point of No Return 02:52
7.Primitive Filth 03:40

Total playing time 01:00:56

Bellator - Opaque Reveries (EP 2000)

Genre : Melodic Doom Death
Country : Belgium

Bellator is an amazing band, that plays Doom Death with great arrangements. Creating excellent atmospheres, with melodic guitars, perfect riffs, crushing melodies, acoustic passages, keyboards, rhythm changes, deep grunts and some clean vocals.
This release is hard to find and highly recommended!!!

Thanks to Metalflag for this great contribution!

1. A Cry To Silence 06:06
2. Ascension 06:25
3. The Craft Of Heroism 05:26
4. Beyond The Glacial Wall 06:19
5. The Ultimate Decay 08:18

Total playing time 32:34

Candlemass - Death Magic Doom (2009)

Genre : Epic Heavy/Classic Doom
Country : Sweden

This is the awesome tenth album of these Doom Metal godfathers. This album is surely not the band’s best album, but it's an excellent album with brilliant songs. One of my favorite tracks is 'Hammer of Doom', with an atmosphere that remind me to their first albums!

This album contains a perfect composition, between heavy riffs and slow melodies, with amazing guitar work, some guitar solos, and crushing melodies. The vocals are fantasticly interpreted by Robert Lowe; in this album his performance is really amazing!

'Death Magic Doom' has many positive factors! Highly recommended!

Release date April 3th.

1.If I Ever Die 04:54
2.Hammer Of Doom 06:16
3.The Bleeding Baroness 07:19
4.Demon Of The Deep 05:21
5.House Of 1000 Voices 07:49
6.Dead Angel 04:05
7.Clouds Of Dementia 05:38
8.My Funeral Dreams 06:09

Total playing time 47:31

Candlemass - King of the Grey Islands (2007)

Genre : Epic Heavy/Classic Doom
Country : Sweden

1.Prologue 00:56
2.Emperor of the Void 04:29
3.Devil Seed 05:44
4.Of Stars and Smoke 05:38
5.Demonia 6 06:24
6.Destroyer 07:55
7.Man of Shadows 06:17
8.Clearsight 06:52
9.The Opal City 01:13
10.Embracing the Styx 08:19
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Total playing time 53:55

Candlemass - Candlemass (2005) + 1 Bonus Track

Genre : Epic Heavy/Classic Doom
Country : Sweden

1.Black Dwarf 05:31
2.Seven Silver Keys 04:59
3.Assassin of the Light 06:29
4.Copernicus 07:18
5.The Man Who Fell from the Sky 03:26
6.Witches 06:23
7.Born In A Tank 04:56
8.Spellbreaker 07:02
9.The Day and the Night 08:53
10. Mars And Volcanos (Bonus Track) 03:21

Total playing time 58:21

Candlemass - From the 13th Sun (1999)

Genre : Epic Heavy/Classic Doom
Country : Sweden

1.Droid 04:35
2.Tot 06:01
3.Elephant Star 04:55
4.Blumma Apt 05:23
5.ARX/NG 891 05:56
6.Zog 05:53
7.Galatea 04:50
8.Cyclo-F 09:18
9.Mythos 01:13

Total playing time 48:04

Candlemass - Dactylis Glomerata (1998)

Genre : Epic Heavy/Classic Doom
Country : Sweden

1.Wiz 04:05
2.I Still See the Black 06:20
3.Dustflow 09:24
4.Cylinder 01:23
5.Karthago 06:39
6.Abstrakt Sun 06:41
7.Apathy 04:07
8.Lidocain God 03:32
9.Molotov 01:31

Total playing time 43:42

Candlemass - Chapter VI (1992)

Genre : Epic Heavy/Classic Doom
Country : Sweden

1.The Dying Illusion 05:52
2.Julie Laughs No More 04:23
3.Where the Runes Still Speak 08:42
4.The Ebony Throne 04:25
5.Temple of the Dead 07:11
6.Aftermath 05:37
7.Black Eyes 05:53
8.The End of Pain 04:23

Total playing time 46:26

Candlemass - Tales of Creation (1989) Classic Album

Genre : Epic Heavy / Classic Doom
Country : Sweden

Link Reuploaded!

1.The Prophecy 01:28
2.Dark Reflections 05:06
3.Voices in the Wind 00:14
4.Under the Oak 06:00
5.Tears 04:13
6.Into the Unfathomed Tower 03:04
7.The Edge of Heaven 06:26
8.Somewhere in Nowhere 03:47
9.Through the Infinitive Halls of Death 05:07
10.Dawn 00:26
11.A Tale of Creation 06:55

Total playing time 42:46

Candlemass - Ancient Dreams + 1 Bonus Track (1988)

Genre : Epic Heavy / Classic Doom
Country : Sweden
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Link Reuploaded!

1.Mirror Mirror 06:16
2.A Cry From the Crypt 07:25
3.Darkness in Paradise 06:47
4.Incarnation of Evil 07:19
5.Bearer of Pain 07:23
6.Ancient Dreams 07:04
7.The Bells of Acheron 05:21
8.Epistle No. 81 04:37
9.Black Sabbath Medley (Black Sabbath Cover) 6:17

Total playing time 58:29

Candlemass - Nightfall (1987)

Genre : Epic Heavy / Classic Doom Metal
Country : Sweden
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Link Reuploaded!

1.Gothic Stone 01:01
2.The Well of Souls 07:11
3.Codex Gigas 02:20
4.At the Gallows End 05:49
5.Samarithan 05:31
6.Marche Funebre 02:22
7.Dark Are the Veils of Death 07:09
8.Mourners Lament 06:10
9.Bewitched 06:38
10.Black Candles 02:19

Total playing time 46:35

Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus (1986) Classic Album

Genre : Epic Heavy / Classic Doom Metal
Country : Sweden
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Link reuploaded!

This album is a Doom Metal icon. The foundations of Doom Metal are consolidated with this album, and gives a definitive sound to the genre Doom as we know it today. This album is Epic Doom essence!
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1.Solitude 05:37
2.Demons Gate 09:13
3.Crystal Ball 05:23
4.Black Stone Wielder 07:35
5.Under the Oak 06:56
6.A Sorcerer's Pledge 08:18

Total playing time 43:02

The Morningside - Moving Crosscurrent Of Time (Demo 2009)

Genre : Melodic Doom Death
Country : Russia

This Demo will be released like Album in 2009 (TBA). In this work, the band continuous playing Doom Death with excellent melodies, melodic riffs, acoustic passages, and semi-screamed vocals. Recommended for fans of Katatonia, Daylight Dies, and Slumber.

1.Intro 04:42
2.14 06:13
3.The Autumn People 06:58
4.Insomnia 06:36
5.Moving Crosscurrent Of Time 08:54
6.The Outcome (Admit One) 07:41
7.Outro (Eng.) 05:07
8.Outro (Rus.) 05:07

Total playing time 51:18

Link to first album of the band :

The Wind, the Trees and the Shadows of the Past (2007) :

Soter - Demo I (Demo 1994)

Genre : Raw Doom Death
Country : Croatia

This is the first Soter's demo, recording in 1994. They played raw Doom Death with Old School influences, crushing riffs, rhythm changes, primitive sound and cavernous grunts. Recommended for fans of early Doom Death! Hard to find!

Thanks to Profanum Vulgairs for this contribution!

1.First ones (Heller cover) 01:14
2.Return of messiah 02:49
3.When the gods turn their backs 05:27
4.Unknown title 04:32
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Link to second Demo of Soter :
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Monday, March 23, 2009

Ea - Ea II (2009)

Genre : Funeral Doom
Country : United States

Second full-length from Ea, the mysterious Funeral Doom band. In this album Ea continuous in their funereal style, with solid melodies, melodic riffs, slowest rhythm, depressive melodies, mournful atmosphere, tons of melancholy, acousitc moments, sorrowful keyboards, sacral organ, classical arrangements, majestic sound, deep grunts, whispering vocals and some solemn choirs.
Highly recommended!!!

This album is simply amazing, and excellent for all funereal Doomsters. It's a masterpiece of this great band!!!

1.Untitled 22:05
2.Untitled 25:21

Total playing time 47:26


Link to the first album from Ea :

Ea Taesse (2006)

Mirror of Deception - Mirrorsoil (2001)

Genre : Traditional Doom
Country : Germany

Mirror of Deception plays an excellent Traditional Doom. Their melodies are crushing, with heavy guitars, slow rhythm, gloomy feel, and melodramatic clean vocals. All their albums are highly recommended, specially 'Shards'!!!

1.Asylum 05:53
2.Veil of Lead 05:46
3.Weiss 05:35
4.Sole 05:27
5.Be Kept in Suspense 07:00
6.Dreams of Misery 04:13
7.Cease 05:22
8.Float 05:09

Total playing time 43:30

Mirror of Deception - Foregone (2004)

Genre : Traditional Doom
Country : Germany

1.Foregone Way 05:11
2.Inscrutable 04:55
3.Bleak 04:28
4.The Ship Of Fools 05:47
5.Deception Island 06:35
6.Mirthless 04:39
7.Metamorphosis 05:49
8.Descended 07:13
9.Where The Juniper Grows 03:03

Total playing time 47:40

Mirror of Deception - Shards (2006)

Genre : Traditional Doom
Country : Germany

1.Haunted 05:44
2.Ghost 05:38
3.Swamped 05:03
4.The Eruption 05:43
5.Insomnia 05:57
6.Dead Pledge 05:49
7.The Capital New 05:50
8.Pyre 05:51
9.Frozen Fortune 06:35
10.Enigma 03:42

Total playing time 55:33

Never Comes Silence - Red Ocean (2002)

Genre : Melodic Gothic Doom
Country : Germany

This is the first album from Never Comes Silence. They play Gothic Doom Metal with melodic guitars, melancholic melodies, sorrowful violins, depressive keyboards, quiet atmosphere, acoustic passages, beautiful female vocals and male voices. Highly recommended!

1.Silent... 03:02
2.Raven 05:27
3.Flying 05:36
4.Well World 06:23
5.Red Ocean 05:36
6.My Spirit 05:01
7.Stargazing 02:55
8.Metalheart 05:49
9.Spirit Of Bounty 04:36

Total playing time 44:27

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Nattvindens Gråt - A Bard´s Tale (1995)

Genre : Dark Doom/Pagan Metal influences
(Male & female vocals)
Country : Finland

Nattvindens Gråt plays Doom Metal with Dark, Gothic and Pagan influences, creating an unique sound and very original; with melodic guitars, keyboards, atmospheric elements, clean vocals, some Epic/Pagan singings, and female voices. This band is very interesting! Recommended!

1.Intro 01:20
2.The Road Goes Ever On 06:16
3.The Echo 05:38
4.Skyfire's Dance 05:43
5.Towards The Sea 02:15
6.Song Of The Tide Waves 03:04
7.A Lonely October Night 06:16
8.Stormwind The Soothsayer 05:00
9.Vagabund's Dusk 03:48
10.The Two Oaks 07:40

Total playing time 47:00

http://rapidshare.com/files/212150630/A_Bard.Nattvindens.Doomstermaniac.rar

Nattvindens Gråt - Chaos Without Theory (1997)

Genre : Melodic Dark Gothic Doom
Country : Finland

1.Sethian Seal 05:39
2.The Dance From Beyond 04:42
3.The Eternal Sleep 05:25
4.In Gothic Archways 05:51
5.Thelemite 04:56
6.Sadoeroticart 03:59
7.Chaos Without Theory 05:00
8.Liquid Silent Dreams 05:04
9.Sorrow´s Shroud 04:11

Total playing time 44:47

Celestial Season - Forever Scarlet Passion (1993)

Genre : Melodic Doom Death
Country : Netherlands
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Link Reuploaded!
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This is the first album of the band. Their style is Doom Death with slow guitars, melodic riffs, violins, keyboards, melancholic atmosphere, deep grunts and some clean volcals!
Highly recommended!

1.Cherish My Pain 06:37
2.The Merciful 06:33
3.In Sweet Bitterness 04:58
4.Ophelia 02:17
5.Together In Solitude 04:59
6.Mother Of All Passions 04:39
7.Flowerskin 01:10
8.Afterglow 05:27
9.For Eternity 07:12

Total playing time 43:52

http://rapidshare.com/files/144124596/Forever_Scarlet_Passion.Doomstermaniac.rar

Celestial Season - Sonic Orb (EP 1995)

Genre : Stoner Doom / Stoner Rock
Country : Netherlands

This is the first Stoner Doom release of the band. In this work they play an amazing Stoner Doom with Stoner Rock and Psychedelic influences, violins, melancholic melodies, excellent riffs, some guitar solos, and clean vocals. Highly recommended!

1.Astral Dub 04:26
2.Icarus With You 04:27
3.Pegasus 04:26
4.King Lizard 07:24
5.Outro 00:19

Total playing time 21:02

Celestial Season - Solar Lovers (1995)

Genre : Doom Death/Stoner Doom
Country : Netherlands
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This album is the transition between their old style and this Doom Death with Stoner Doom influences, creating an original sound, with violins, cello, and piano. This album is crushing Doom Metal!
Highly recommended!!!

1.Decamerone 06:58
2.Solar Child 05:14
3.Body As Canvas 00:57
4.Soft Embalmer Of The Still Midnight 06:46
5.Will You Wait For The Sun? 06:41
6.The Holy Snake 01:28
7.Dancing To A Thousand Symphonies 03:11
8.Vienna (Ultravox cover) 04:30
9.Fandango 01:41
10.The Scent Of Eve 08:53
11.A Tune From The Majestic Queen's Garden 01:49

Total playing time 48:08

Elysium - Dreamscapes (2001)

Genre : Melodic Doom Death
(Male and female vocals)
Country : Australia
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Link Reuploaded!
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Elysium is an excellent band formed in the 90's by Stuart Prickett (The Slow Death / Stone Wings). The band changed the name to Stone Wings in 2002.
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This album is a fantastic release with bleak melodies, raw moments, sorrowful keyboards, deep grunts, and some female vocals.
This album is highly recommended!!!
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1.Dark Woods And Willows Wild 07:29
2.Graven Bay 05:29
3.Elysium (Gallery Of The Fallen) 02:59
4.These Bleak Enshrined Emotions 07:40
5.Remorse At Dusk 09:56
6.Leafy Tendrils (Part One) 08:01
7.Millenia Gone 11:48

Total playing time 53:22
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Other works from 'Elysium', under the name 'Stone Wings' :
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Stone Wings - Birds of Stone Wings (2003)
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Stone Wings / Mournful Congregation (Split 2007)
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Elysium - Elysium (Demo 1996)

Genre : Doom Death
Country : Australia

In this Demo Elysium plays Doom Death with bleak melodies, melodic riffs, and deep grunts. Recommended!

1.These Bleak Enshrined Emotions 08:34
2.As Agony Fades 03:40
3.Griefstricken 05:22
4.The Infinite Trails Of Sadness 05:20
5.Opaque Dreams 03:59
6.Within The Crystalline 09:42

Total playing time 36:37

Friday, March 20, 2009

Of Darkness - The Empty Eye (2005)

Genre : Raw Funeral Doom
Country : Spain

This is the only full-length of the band. Their style is Funeral Doom with raw melodies, sinister melodies, distorted riffs, claustrophobic atmosphere, monotone rhythm, and cavernous grunts.
This album is very hard to find!

1.The Empty Eye 59:00

Total playing time 59:00


First release of the band :

Of Darkness - Death (2004)

Urna - Iter ad Lucem (2009)

Genre : Ambient Funeral Black Doom
Country : Italy

This is the last release from Urna. In this album they play Funeral Black Doom with ambient influences, funereal atmosphere, obscure melodies, slow guitars, melodic riffs, sinister keyboards, cavernous grunts and blackness growls. This album is recommended for fans of Nortt, Dictator, and Elysian Blaze. Highly recommended!

1.Iter ad Lucem pt. I 09:15
2.Iter ad Lucem pt. II 10:14
3.K-TH-R 08:16
4.Om 06:11
5.Sefira Malkuth 08:16
6.(untitled) 02:32

Total playing time 44:44


Other releases from Urna :

Urna - Sepulcrum (2006)


Urna - Justa Funebria (2005)

Sculptor - Temnyi Oktyabr (2008)

Genre : Doom Death
Country : Russia

This is the first full-length of the band. They play Doom Death with melodic riffs, rhythm changes, quiet moments, powerful grunts and some clean vocals. This album is very interesting. Recommended!

1.Intro 02:48
2.Oblaka Pechali 07:51
3.Chernyi Ogon 07:15
4.Vechno Protiv 05:59
5.Bezumstvo 07:38
6... Cherno-Belym Tsvetom 06:43
7.Zhertvy za Shedevry 09:24

Total playing time 47:38

Serpent Rise - Euphoric Waves of Melancholy (EP 2008)

Genre : Melodic Doom Death
Country : Brazil

This is the last release and the best work of this Brazilian band. It's slowest Doom with melodic riffs, keyboards, deep grunts and melancholic clean vocals. Highly recommended!

1.Euphoric Waves Of Melancholy 10:45
2.Marduk, The King Of Babylon 10:56

Total playing time 21:41

Serpent Rise - Gathered By... (1998)

Genre : Melodic Doom Death
Country : Brazil

1.In the Cosmic Sea 10:18
2... Kharma 07:57
3.Mistress of my Paradise 07:22
4.Reflex in the Last Mirror 06:11
5.Betrayer God 07:59
6.Travelling Free... 14:59
7.During the Eternity 10:17

Total playing time 01:05:03

Serpent Rise - Anastenárides (Demo 1994 / Re-release 2005)

Genre : Doom Death
Country : Brazil

This Demo was re-released in 2005 with 2 bonus tracks from 'Travellin Free' demo. In this Demo they plays Doom Death with Old School influences, raw sound, obscure atmosphere, death growls and some clean vocals. It's recommended for fans of raw Doom Death.

1.Mistress Of My Paradise 05:34
2.Gardens Of Illusion 08:43
3.Misericordium 07:35
4.Betrayer God 05:35
5.Mistress of My Paradise (Bonus Track) 08:33
6.Travellin' Free... In the Cosmic Sea (Bonus Track) 14:46

Total playing time 49:48

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Revelation - The Forms of Suffering Flesh (2004)

Genre : Melodic Doom Death
(Deep grunts, clean vocals & some female voices)
Country : Belarus
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Link Reuploaded!

This is one of my oddities kept in the cabinet. An excellent Doom Death band From Belarus. Their sound is very diverse, accompanied by keyboards, and intricate guitars with fantastic riffs, creating an atmosphere with magnificent melodies. The grunts are deep and emotional, the clean vocals are melancholy and suffering.
Highly recommended!!!

1.Intro 01:16
2.Day of the Sky Tears 06:30
3.The Angel Within My Heart 05:48
4.The Forms of Suffering Flesh 06:47
5.A Gates of Purrification 05:17
6.A Child of Visions Sunrise 08:54
7.Valtze 02:25
8.A Ghost 07:02
9.Outro 03:08
10.Harvester of Sorrow (Metallica cover) 04:55
11.Day of the Sky Tears (Russian version) 07:48

Total playing time 59:50

Revelation - Expulsion From the Paradise (2001)

Genre : Melodic Doom Death
Country : Belarus

1.Intro 01:47
2.The Day of Sky Tears 07:45
3.My Room 06:39
4.Celebration of Madness 05:07
5.Forgotten Empire 05:08
6.Voice of the Silence 02:45
7.Expulsion From the Paradise 06:06
8.And Death Is Just A Beginning 05:17
9.Listen To Your Heart 04:03

Total playing time 44:37

Revelation - Forgotten Empire (Demo 2000)

Genre : Melodic Doom Death
Country : Belarus

1.Intro 02:26
2.Out of My Heart 05:51
3.Forgotten Empire 05:11
4.My Room 06:44

Total playing time 20:12

While Heaven Wept - Chapter One: 1989-1999 (Best of Compilation - 2002)

Genre : Epic Doom (Tracks 1 to 8)/Doom Death (Tracks 10 & 11)
Country : United States

This compilation contains the complete first works of the band, and their best album 'Sorrow of the Angels'. This band plays an amazing and solid Epic Doom, with magnificent melodies.
Highly recommended!

This Compilation contains :

Tracks 1 to 4 - 'Sorrow of the Angels' (complete full-lenght 1998)
Tracks 5 to 7 - 'Love Songs of the Forsaken' (EP 1995)
Track 8 - 'The Mourning' (From Split with Cold Mourning 1996)
Tracks 9 - Previously unreleased
Tracks 10 & 11 - From 'Into the Wells of Sorrow' (Single 1994)

1.Thus With a Kiss I Die 16:58
2.Into the Wells of Sorrow 09:43
3.The Death of Love 09:57
4.September 02:10
5.In Aeturnum 07:04
6.La Mort D'Amour 08:09
7.Sorrow of the Angels 04:46
8.The Mourning 06:03
9.Unplenitude 03:01
10.Into the Wells of Sorrow 03:39
11.Shores of Desolation 03:58

Total playing time 01:15:28

Sunday, March 15, 2009

While Heaven Wept - Of Empires Forlorn (2003)

Genre : Epic Heavy Doom
Country : United States

This is the second full-length of the band. Epic Doom with Heavy influences, melodic riffs, mid-tempo, soft melodies, keyboards, and clean vocals in diverse styles. This album is for fans of this genre. Recommended!

1.The Drowning Years 05:41
2.Of Empires Forlorn 07:49
3.Voice In The Wind 06:25
4.Soulsadness 07:24
5.Epistle No. 81 (Candlemass cover) 03:24
6.Sorrow Of The Angels 04:47
7.From Empires To Oceans 07:18

Total playing time 42:48

Arcane Sun - Arcane Sun (1998)

Genre : Melodic Doom Death
Country : Ireland

This is the only full-length of this amazing Irish band. They play Melodic Doom with some Death Metal moments, magnificent riffs, keyboards, intense melodies, deep grunts, Epic and clean vocals. This album is for fans of Mourning Beloveth, Saturnus, My Dying Bride, Anathema, and My Silent Wake. Highly recommended!!!

1.Canto I (The Search) 04:29
2.I Was Alive Then... 06:24
3.Sundrenched (Beneath the Very Skies We Sought) 03:10
4.Avatar 08:27
5.We Stood with Time 06:10
6.Your Name 06:27
7.Canto II (Arrival, and Submergence) 06:55
8.And the Waters Were Like Wine 02:53
9.Longing for Edens Rain (and Winters End) 05:56
10.Promised (So Many Years Have Passed) 05:45

Total playing time 56:36

Lacrimas Profundere - Memorandum (1999)

Genre : Melodic Doom Death
Country : Germany

This is the third album of this amazing band. This album is the masterpiece of the band, they get a perfect mix of Melodic Doom with magnificent riffs, violins, keyboards, classical melodies, down tempo, acoustic moments, deep grunts, melancholic clean vocals and some female voices. This release is one of the best melancholic albums that I have listened. Highly recommended!!!

1.Infinity 03:45
2.Helplessness 06:24
3...and How to Drown in Your Arms 03:20
4.Black Swans 04:24
5.Reminiscence 05:52
6.The Crown of Leaving 06:39
7.All Your Radiance... 05:22
8.The Embrace and the Eclipse 05:56
9.The Fate of Equilibrium 02:00

Total playing time 43:42

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Lacrimas Profundere - The Fallen Years (Best of Compilation - 2002) Doom Death

Genre : Melodic Doom Death w/classical music influence
(Deep grunts, clean vocals & Soprano/Keyboards, Violin, Harp & Flute)
Country : Germany

This compilation contains the 2 first albums from Lacrimas Profundere, these albums are released in the best era of the band. This compilation is one of my original oddities. Both albums have been remastered! This compilation is hard to find!
Highly recommended!!!

Lacrimas Profundere in their early years played Doom Death with melodic riffs, classical music influences, violin, flute, harp, keyboards, acosutic passages, crushing melodies, tons of melancholy, deep grunts, clean vocals and Soprano.

'...And the Wings Embraced Us' is the first album of the band, in this album they play emotional Doom Death with crushing songs. This is the beginning of this great career.

'...La Naissance d'un Rêve' is one of the top 10 Doom Death masterpieces! Really in this album they play amazing Doom, with sorrowful melodies, sadness, agony, pain, melancholy, and hopeless. It's a total tragedy! This is one of my favorite Doom Metal albums ever made. It's a treasure!!!

I recommend you listen with a lot of attention 'An Orchid for My Withering Garden' is one of the most painful acoustical tracks in the Doom Metal history!

CD 1 : ...And the Wings Embraced Us

*Originally released in April 1995. Re-released and remastered in 2002.

1.Snow 07:21
2.Perfume of Withered Roses (Extended Version) 07:13
3.Amorous 07:10
4.Eternal Sleep 04:58
5.Autumn Morning 07:37
6.Embracing Wings 01:59

Playing time 36:19

CD 2 : ...La Naissance d'un Rêve

*Originally released in 1997. Re-released in 2002 with 1 Bonus Track.
The tracks from '...La Naissance d'un Rêve' have been re-edited and remastered by the band in order to improve songs.

1.A Fairy's Breath (Re-edited Version) 09:35
2.Priamus (Re-edited Version) 09:54
3.Lilienmeer 02:32
4.The Gesture of the Gist (Re-edited Version) 07:47
5.An Orchid for My Withering Garden 06:30
6.Enchanted and in Silent Beauty (Re-edited Version) 07:32
7.The Meadows of Light (Bonus Track) 04:05

Playing time 47:57
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Total Playing Time 01:24:16

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Fall of Empyrean - Fall of Empyrean (EP 2001)

Genre : Melodic Doom Death
Country : United States

This is the first work released by this excellent band. This EP contains 4 tracks not published in their albums. It's very interesting material. Recommended!

1.Behind Vacant Eyes 07:23
2.Cascading Rivers Of Black 05:33
3.Solar Journey 06:09
4.This Sanguine Farewell 05:51

Total playing time 36:54

Neolithic - The Personal Fragment of Life (Demo 1993)

Genre : Progressive Doom Death
Country : Poland

Neolithic is an interesting band from Poland, their style has many influences, in the first albums they play Doom Death with progressive melodies, and in the last releases they are oriented into Gothic Metal with progressive influences and some Doom moments. This band has a very original sound, with melodic riffs, rhythm changes and mysterious melodies. Recommended for fans of progressive stuff!

1.Intro 01:26
2.Wickedness of the Objects 06:08
3.Nightly Friends 07:21
4.Unupdate Museum (In Memory of Bruno Schulz) 05:28
5.Undesirable Return 04:50
6.Landscape 05:40

Total playing time 30:53

Neolithic - For Destroy The Lament (1996)

Genre : Progressive Gothic Doom Death
Country : Poland

1.For Destroy The Lament 04:06
2.Oddity 06:58
3.Gardens Of Phantasms 07:13
4.Szacunek Dla Zmarlego 06:30
5.Last Fix 06:50
6.Chattles 06:41
7.Choregrafia 05:39
8.Stained Glass Window 08:08

Total playing time 52:10

Neolithic - Neolithic (EP 1997)

Genre : Progressive Heavy/Gothic Doom
Country : Poland

1.1990 Avenue 03:55
2.Night Insane City 05:49
3.Nowhen, Nowhere 06:51
4.Ewry Sunday People 05:00
5.Newborn - Reborn 04:06
6.The Short Human Story 05:27
7.Sunshine Of Your Love 04:38

Total playing time 35:46

Neolithic - My Beautiful Enemy (2002)

Genre : Progressive Gothic Doom
Country : Poland

1.Pledge 05:33
2.Darkness 06:35
3.My Beautiful Enemy 07:04
4.A Fire Inside 06:15
5.Falling Down 05:55
6.Love? 04:26
7.Love, Sex, Desire 04:39
8.Rebel 04:59

Total playing time 43:32

The Sad Sun / Cold Aeon / The Ethereal - Infra Sub Ultra (Split 2008)

The Sad Sun

Genre : Funeral Doom
Country : Belgium

1.Seas That Swallowed the Night 19:52
2.Parallel Seas 10:45

Cold Aeon

Genre : Ambient Funeral Drone Doom
Country : Belgium

3.Shapes 15:42

The Ethereal
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Genre : Funeral Doom
Country : Belgium
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4.Carving the Angel 14:28

Total playing time 01:00:47

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Furva Ambiguitas - In Articulo Mortis (2009)

Genre : Funeral Black Doom
Country : Russia

This band plays Funeral Black Doom with crushing melodies, raw riffs, funereal rhythm, slow passages, brutal Black Metal moments, obscure atmosphere, depressive keyboards, and aggressive Black vocals in perfect performance. This album is highly recommended for fans of this funereal genre!

1.Memento 05:11
2.Carpe Diem 07:35
3.Gens Una Sumus 06:32
4.In Articulo Mortis 05:54
5.Alienatio Mentis 06:01
6.At the Bottom of the River 13:35

Total playing time 44:48

Stabat Mater - Rehearsal (Demo 2001)

Genre : Raw Funeral Doom
Country : Finland

This is the first Stabat Mater's release. Their style is Funeral Doom with slow riffs, distorted melodies, rare sounds, sick atmosphere, cavernous grunts, and torture voices.
This release is psychotic and sadistic.
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1.Intro 02:31
2.Above Him 17:38
3.Chamber of Torture 12:08
4.Give Them Pain 07:26
5.Outro 01:32

Total playing time 41:15

Qabr - The Malediction of Manifestation (Demo 2004)

Genre : Atmospheric Funeral Black Doom
Country : United Arab Emirates

This is the only release of the band. They play Funeral Doom with some Black influences, obscure atmosphere, with sinister melodies, deep grunts, screaming vocals and psychotic voices. This release is recommended for best nightmares!

1.She Never Left 08:21
2.The Gallows Funeral 12:21

Total playing time 20:43