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Shades Of Night Descending (KR​-​38)

by Evoken

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Intro 02:26
[Instrumental]
2.
Through funeral mists , dissonant chant surrounds Aura of impurity obscured Cimmerian shadows cast by moonlit skies Seek solace amid the withered boughs Winter shrouds the land in twilight frost Alone to wander the darkened path..... "With sheets of fog spaced in horrible bands across a sky that curves,recedes, descends,formed by the most sinister black smoke..." Beyond the mournful veil of faded sunsets Graven image etched in timeless sorrow During the dark hours of winter's misery Archaic vision of impiety's gift Evoken winds , speak in sinister shades Draped in nightfall ,eternal skies Sanctuary , unfound in labyrinthine courts The impending silence--discordant....
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"There was no life , no light... A brooding night enveloped all... Over which darkness and silence reigned supreme" Gaze into the astral depths The advent of endlessness The ill-fated winds of sinister praise like echoed shrieks as darkness reigns... Blackened hail shall fall upon the shores of Lethe As the pitiless winter begins its unending season Amid the sunless tombs Tragic symphony of mourning Abysmal depths have risen Season of nocturnal reign
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Runic blade of crystal skies Arise the winter of blackest frost Through the northwinds mournful chant In frozen mists and dying light Abyssic darkness descends on funeral wings.... Ancient towers rise before me Like blades in the midwinter's sky I kneel before the gates of black In the etherial fire of dying sunsets Within the blackest valleys In Etah's silent grace frozen moon , cursed lands Visions of eternal winter A vision of dark ages yet to come..... Diabolical winterwinds A spectral dance of beauty and frost My journey to the Northlands A return to evil ways
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Somber shadows mourn the dawn of autumn Within the forest of eternal grievance Its twisted and withered trees stand lifeless and barren Cloaking this ancient burial ground in spectral gloom Lamentations of the dead Echo through this desolate twilight As darkness falls and night reveals A fearful place of frozen grief Beneath the wings of this mournful angel Chilling horror grips the spirits of our funeral As we fall into eternal September The procession to interment A dirge of misery sounds...... Onward into the darkness Among the doleful shadows Our graves await in silence A realm of haunted sleep The ages of time mean nothing Perpetual sorrow is born..... Commence the rites of burial For the season of mourning is upon us.......
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From the corner of my eye, a wall of black obscures A lake of clearest ice becomes a vision of another dimension For which I have turned from in the pas A everlasting call, to a forbidden light The hills of arctic stillness stand silent from afar As I travel over lands for eons Only to call you, noble winter's answer A shrouded form stands motionless, beneath the grey colossal sky As clouds begin to darken, the onset of nightfall Now standing before this lake awaiting a distant vision I am tossed into this darkness only to return to life....
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Born to darkness,the woods forever stand among the gathering.Upon his eyes the last of the sun's glow.Ascend the candlelit path to where the gift of life is given.Beyond all dream is his ignorance to a serene past.Upon his will you will sleep to an endless dusk.The howls' of an evening's plague of sorrow rides the land in a storm's mist.Glaring in hope to witness the breath of a new dawn.Yet a mystical thought allows him to look upon a sky covered in black satin.Through profane eternity he drinks the nectar of immortality.Searching eons for the darkest of pastures.An emotion filled with such vengeance enrages his coldest heart.As now, the wolves of autumn shriek the call of this,the final night..
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[Instrumental]
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The faint ringing of cathedral bells Calls me from my sleep Dissonant in the still black chamber I rise silently from the damp soil It is the voice of god... Whispering of black spirits Engulfs me as I am drown forward in fevered trance Beneath the pale shadows, I gaze upon the corruption of flesh I close my eyes and sleep once again As the bells of the tower fall silent My blood is the unblessed host My robes are the shrouds of the dead The voice of god summons me no more
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[Instrumental]

about

Remastered for vinyl... Heavyweight 2xLP Gatefold.
Includes two demos from 1996/1997.

First EVER vinyl release by this legendary US funeral doom band. Also Shades of Night Descending is the first demo of Evoken, released in 1994, and for a debut demo, it is a surprisingly mature creation. Perhaps the music is of the same funeral doom-death variety as found on the later albums, all the way to the excellent Antithesis of Light and A Caress of the Void, but the unrefined production on Shades of Night Descending, with its barren character and heavy echoing sound scape, brings out the nihilism of funeral doom more effectively than the more professional production jobs of the later albums. The atmosphere on the demo is bleaker, even less forgiving, and perhaps even more desperate and repulsive in a positive sense than what can be found on A Caress of the Void. Even the considerably melodic guitar part in "Towers of Frozen Dusk" and other sweeter spots on the demo have a taste of ash and feel of pumice in them; Evoken walks on a musical lava field here, and manages to paint the true meaning of funeral doom in slow death metal colors on the canvas.

In comparison to their later works, this is perhaps the essence of the whole band in the original, pure form. It would be silly to say that some fundamental rule of Evoken's music had changed since then, but for those who wish to have a certain rawness and honesty in what they hear, Shades of Night Descending is a good choice. Considering the year and the fact that this demo was recorded by a very recently formed band, the originality and the merciless exploration of new fields of abrasive nihilism are astounding. What's more, the songwriting and technical performance sound exceptionally evolved, and the demo could well be considered a finished and debugged product, ready to be sold to the eager masses. However, it was to take another four years before they managed to release Embrace the Emptiness, and that speaks volumes of the advanced character of this demo; perhaps the world simply wasn't ready for this yet at that point.

For fans of : Asunder, Disembowelment, UK's Esoteric, Thergothon, Ahab, Skepticism, Mournful Congregation, Mourning Beloveth, Coffins, Otesanek.

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released June 19, 2013

John Paradiso - Vocals, guitars, keyboards
Nick Orlando - Guitars
Vince Verkay - Drums
Bill Manley - Bass

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Kreation Records Seattle, Washington

Independent label founded in Seattle, WA 1996.

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