DRACONIAN

Release Year: 2005
Artist Origin: SWE
Style: gloomy dramatic emotional doom metal

second full-length of emotional doom metal masters is a concept album in eight parts that details the fall of Lucifer from heaven and the creation of hell - lengthy enough compositions have quite complex structure regardless the fact that music flows smoothly, developing those dramatic patterns in darker, gloomier and heavier metal way, winking at mid-nineties era MDB here and there, yet maintaining a personal character not to be lost in a cauldron of other artists with a strong poetic background; it is often considered as classic of this mournful yet uplifting genre, building up a depressing atmosphere of deranged lunacy, while monumental artwork by Travis Smith adds some extra flavour