Artist: DRACONIAN
Album: UNDER A GODLESS VINYL (2LP BLACK)

Year: 30.10.2020
EAN/UPS: 840588134106
Media type: LP

And though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death...

Almost five years after their sixth long-player Sovran, DRACONIAN once again cast their breathtaking veil of melancholy over the world. This second full-length release featuring singer Heike Langhans delivers a captivating mélange of dreary doom and contrasty vocals and mixes Heike's angelic female voice with Anders Jakobsson's death growls. The one-hour long album, graced with haunting cover artwork by Natalia Drepina, is carrying the legacy of gothic doom metal à la My Dying Bride or Trees Of Eternity into the new decade and will drag the listener into a sorrowful cosmos right with the first notes of the spellbinding opener "Sorrow Of Sophia" that interweaves beauty with crippling depression. After crushing slow rhythms and the fragile "Sleepwalkers" that leads through barren soundscapes, the band - founded in Säffle / Sweden in 1994 – rises up to their best in the nine-minute long 'Ascend Into Darkness', which will echo in the listener's ears long after the final chord has died away.

Side A:
01 Sorrow Of Sophia
02 The Sacrificial Flame

Side B:
03 Lustrous Heart
04 Sleepwalkers
05 Moon Over Sabaoth

Side C:
06 Burial Fields
07 The Sethian
08 Claw Marks On The Throne

Side D:
09 Night Visitor
10 Ascend Into Darkness