Country: Sweden
Sub Genre: Doom, Progressive Metal
Label: Transubstans Records
Release date: January 16, 2013
Tracklist:
01 Decades Of Despair
02 Iscariot
03 Hwila
04 Boeves Psalm
05 Ashes To Ashes (1:23:45)
06 Hollow
07 Marion Crane
08 Stums Polska
09 Codex Dei
10 What A Wonderful World
Line-up:
Roger Johansson – guitars
Christer Nilsson – bass and vocals
Peter Svensson – drums
Additional members
Håkan Malmros – violin
Anders Smedenmark – nyckelharpa (Swedish Key Fiddle)
Description/Reviews:
Most of the tunes here are lengthy and quite epic sounding, with the vocals being a mix of soaring clean and slightly gruff nature. Opening title track is mournful doom, slow and plodding but with soaring melodies. "Iscariot" provides even heavier riffs but adds some bluesy groove, giving the song an almost Pentagram meets Cathedral feel, while "Hwila" adds female vocals and symphonic elements for an even more majestic presentation. Much of the album has that somber yet powerful aura (so present in the music of Candlemass and Aolitude Aeternus) which so many doom fans look for, so if that's your cup of tea there'a a lot to recommend here. That being said, don't expect tons of originality on Decades of Despair, though the 15-minute epic "Codex Dei" does have some intriguing folk, progressive & gothic elements that mesh nicely witht he devastating doom passages. Solid stuff all around and worth checking into. (Pete Pardo at seaoftranquility.org)Media/Samples
Hwila
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