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The Russian doomsters lads running Solitude Productions, not happy enough with releasing pure depressive music under many shapes of slow metal, have decided to unveil a lost jewel of the scene and they have re-released Evoken´s first full-length album, suggestively titled “Embrace The Emptiness”, originally launched in 1998. We doomy freaks needed a re-edition like this, since it was quite hard to get this piece of bleak music, if not simply impossible, in the metal markets. In fact even the download from the net was not certainly easy... Now the package is in our hands courtesy of those guys, to take back to attention this US band that could be categorised as the advanced heirs of Disembowelment´s legacy. Evoken´s mastery in ultra dark doom death metal is firmly carved in every second of the CD and make us think about derelict landscapes, autumnal ruins and desolation. A path of debris must be crossed to savour properly this stunning album; if so, an introspective journey could happen while listening the funeral marches “Embrace The Emptiness” is made off. Chasm-evocative distorted chords intertwine perfectly with loose, cold clean notes literally dripping from the guitar, giving form to the most characteristic of Evoken´s trademarks, that mixture between melancholy and tragedy, which go hand in hand in their beautiful sonic expression of deep sorrow. Even though the keys play a prominent role in creating chilling atmospheres, the guitars are the core of the sound in both forms, mellow and down-tuned. However, I´m not reinventing anything telling all this, since all Evoken releases follow more or less the same patterns and style without great differences between each other. Anyway, when music is so darkly charming and essential like the notes created by this band, that is just a minor matter. Curse the sunrise, hear the tragedy eternal and ascend into the maelstrom with this album as the soundtrack. Excellent!
| Tracklist |
| 1. Intro (Instrumental) |
| 2. Tragedy Eternal |
| 3. Chime The Centuries End |
| 4. Lost Kingdom Of Darkness |
| 5. Ascend Into The Maelstrom |
| 6. To Sleep Eternally |
| 7. Curse The Sunrise |
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