SHAPE OF DESPAIR

Release Year: 2005
Artist Origin: FIN
Style: heavy oppressing atmospheric doom metal

since the earliest, pre-album recordings by Finnish collective of melancholy and despair from 1995-1999 were ever made public before, including certain songs off the initial Alone in The Mist demo [1998], this retrospective compilation shall hastily improve such an unforgivable slip-up: rare versions of tunes later featured on both first longplays let us feel how such a ferocious, ceremonial, oppressive and crushing, yet very emotional, atmospheric and rich in thick textures sound was shaped, adding along brand new Sleeping Murder composition, where vocals are nailed by ex.Amorphis frontman Pasi Koskinen, lifting up dead heavy funeral doom metal into completely new level; hard to get authentic Finnish edition