Release Year: 2017
Artist Origin: SWE
Style: mystical dreamy progressive death metal
classic fourth album [1999] by grand masters of gloom marks the shift from dark melancholic death metal with blackened overtones to something more personal and unique, re-introducing epic progressive side of the band, refining a magical fusion of atmospheric interludes and slash'n'burn intense metal roots - with a few of seven intricate compositions reaching ten minute mark, this album sounds like musical reading of a book, where Face of Melinda is exceptionally haunting; recent usual digipak edition