Artist: EVOKEN
Album: SHADES OF NIGHT DESCENDING REISSUE (CD)

Release date: 16.01.2026
EAN/UPS: 8715392260728
Media type: CD

Evoken’s Funeral Doom/Death Metal debut EP remastered and reissued! Raw, bleak and essential!

Doom Metal, perhaps the most varied of all the metal genres, has been crossing over with plenty of other genres, and surprisingly often, the crossbreeding has been fertile. While the “funeral” brand of Doom Metal sounds like something that lacks the genetics to successfully breed with other metal genres, its nihilism works surpringly well when blended with slowed down Death Metal. Among the masters of that gruesome fusion are Evoken from the United States.

“Shades of Night Descending”is the first recording by Evoken, released in 1994, and for a debut recording, it is a surprisingly mature creation. The later works of Evoken have a thicker wall of sound and plenty of production tricks in them, but the deviations from the basic formula introduced here have been essentially more polishing that actual rethinking of the format.

CD/ LP:

1. Intro
2. In Graven Image
3. Shades of Night Descending
4. Towers of Frozen Dusk
5. Into the Autumn Shade

CD Bonus Tracks:
6. The Hills of Arctic Stillness (Demo 1996)
7. Embrace the Emptines (Demo 1996)
8. Outro (Demo 1996)
9. Among the Whispering Spirits (Demo 1997)
10. Outro (Demo 1997)