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Until I listened this album I never believed that I'll ever hear music that gives you a feeling of loneliness. Shape Of Despair with their album Angels Of Distress showed me that I was wrong. The excellent funeral doom made by this finnish band takes you in another world, a world of sadness and pain. The five songs found on this album are long or very long. The longest one, "...To Live For My Death..." lasts over 17 minutes! Even if the songs are so long I can assure you that they are not boring as you might expect. Of course if you search for head-banging music this is not the place to find it because this is very slow and emotional music. The best song on this album is definitely "Quiet These Paintings Are". In this song the feeling of lonileness is so powerful that it makes you want to lay down, close your eyes and not open them until the song ends. I bow before people who can write such music! On this second album Shape Of Despair replaced the flute with the violin and I think it was a wise choice. The flute sounded good too, but the violin is much better for their music. The replacement of the flute is not the only change made. Their former vocalist left so now the male vocals are made by Pasi Koskinen from Amorphis and he does a great job. On the other side, the female vocals are by the same heavenly singer Natalia Safrosskin which can be heard on their first album too. Lyrics like: "Quietly these colours will fade/but soon they will be as one./ For a moment i will stare/into this deep saddened sea/and will suffer the death's fright." or: "I did not wanted/to live my life/nor did i even wanted/to live for my death..." definitely give more power to this music especially when Pasi Koskinen sings them with his deep and full of pain growls. I recommend this album mostly to doom metal listeners, but also to those who listen other types of metal provided that they are not looking for head-banging music as I said above.
| Tracklist |
| 1. Fallen |
| 2. Angels of Distress |
| 3. Quiet these Paintings are |
| 4. ...To Live for my Death... |
| 5. Night’s Dew |
: 55.04
| Buy other Shape Of Despair albums |
