Set Sail To Mystery_音乐专辑
Set Sail To Mystery
表演者: The Vision Bleak
专辑类型: Album
介质: 2-CD Digipak
发行时间: 2010-04-05
唱片数: 2
出版者: Prophecy Productions
条形码: 0884388710535
专辑简介
"When the falling stars are shooting
And the answer'd owls are hooting"
This year will see The Vision Bleak return to the stage of Horror Metal – more ghoulish and more poetic than ever before. After they journeyed through the underworld on the rotten planks of a deathship in the year 2004 (on "The Deathship Has A New Captain"), befittingly travelled the calamitous Carpathians in a black carriage in 2005 (on "Carpathia – A Dramatic Poem"), and sorted with wolves in 2007 (on "The Wolves Go Hunt Their Prey"), our necromancers Schwadorf and Konstanz are coming full circle in 2010.
On "Set Sail To Mystery", they once again set the tattered, ashen sails of the deathship and head towards midnight, death, and doom. Of course, the last few years have left their mark on the ferrymen. As if The Vision Bleak were leafing through the pages of a leather-bound tome on their history thus far, "Set Sail To Mystery" is cruising through many of the lethal waters they have sailed through in previous lifes: the driving gothic-rock energy of their debut, the dramatic heaviness of their sophomore, and the Nordic aggression of the last album are resonating on this, their fourth opus, like the death-knell of a cemetery chapel.
Yet, "Set Sail To Mystery" is much more than just the sum of its predecessors. Proof for this is the foreboding introduction, "A Curse Of The Grandest Kind", where a magical invocation written by the notorious poet Lord Byron is set to a haunting, atmospheric melody:
"And a magic voice and verse
Hath baptiz'd thee with a curse"
And The Vision Bleak aren't making any idle threats here: this intro already makes listeners succumb to the album's spell, forcing them to immerse themselves in the dark, gothic world this duo creates with masterly dramatics. Edgar Allan Poe needs to be present, of course, as does H.P. Lovecraft, who has been a member of the crew ever since the maiden voyage of the deathship.
These dark fairytales are performed as a very varied hell-ride featuring dramatic pomp, oppressive metal, and forceful energy as well as mean screeches, Thomas Helm's operatic vocals, and female furies – complemented by contemporary black-metal snarling in "A Romance With The Grave" or the malicious doom swamp of "Mother Nothingness", which is going to secure The Vision Bleak a tenacious and gloomy memorial in the morass of the underworld. Kutulu Doom!
Set sails, cast a final glance ashore: whosoever hires on the deathship shall never return again.
"Into the Maelstrom I descend..."
曲目
1. A Curse Of The Grandest Kind
2. Descend Into Maelstrom
3. I Dined With The Swans
4. A Romance With The Grave
5. The Outsider
6. Mother Nothingness (The Triumph Of Ubbo Sathla)
7. The Foul Within
8. He Who Paints The Black Of Night
9. Dined With The Swans (Featuring Vocals By Niklas Kvarforth)
10. By The Misery Of Fate He Was Haunted (MASTER'S HAMMER Cover V
11. Descend Into Maelstrom (Classic Version In Monochrome)
12. Mother Nothingness (Classic Version In Monochrome)
13. The Foul Within (Classic Version In Monochrome)
14. I Dined With The Swans (Piano Version In Monochrome)
15. A Farewell At Sea (Classic Version In Monochrome)
