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The essential debut full-length from funeral Doom/Death legends Evoken remastered and available again! A majestic sight of everlasting reign!
Evoken are an essential Funeral Doom Metal band. Give “Embrace the Emptiness” a listen and end up being immensely impressed...
The essential debut full-length from funeral Doom/Death legends Evoken remastered and available again! A majestic sight of everlasting reign!
Evoken are an essential Funeral Doom Metal band. Give “Embrace the Emptiness” a listen and end up being immensely impressed...
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.
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.
The most prominent and significant American death/funeral doom emissaries EVOKEN succeed their 2018 landmark Hypnagogia album with their seventh full-length opus Mendacium set for release on Oct 17. A work that will reveal itself as one of the darkest and most oppressive EVOKEN albums among their unparalleled repertoire.
Where 2018’s Hypnagogia would see the band capture and focus on a more melancholic, tangible, and even more of an accessible sonic design, Mendacium takes that acute shift back to the monumental dirge-like dread and woeful catacombic and disharmonious heaviness reminiscent of the band’s Quietus and Antitheses of Light masterworks. All while still encapsulating the tectonic-shifting nature of their Caress of the Void and Atra Mors releases while venturing more through classic gothic audial textures and even treading a little down experimental mire as well, reminiscing an aura seeping from such luminary artists as Dead Can Dance, Monumentum, and Disembowelment.
To signal this shift in sound harking back to this previous era, the band would recall the services of producer Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal who worked with EVOKEN on their Antithesis of Light and Quietus albums respectively. The result being Mendacium capturing a sepulchral heaviness saturated in ambience with even more of an emphasis on deathlike dread and anguish; an ambience reflecting the depths and catacombs of an ancient cathedral or monastery, ultimately defining Mendacium as EVOKEN’s most powerful sounding album to date.
The most prominent and significant American death/funeral doom emissaries EVOKEN succeed their 2018 landmark Hypnagogia album with their seventh full-length opus Mendacium set for release on Oct 17. A work that will reveal itself as one of the darkest and most oppressive EVOKEN albums among their unparalleled repertoire.
Where 2018’s Hypnagogia would see the band capture and focus on a more melancholic, tangible, and even more of an accessible sonic design, Mendacium takes that acute shift back to the monumental dirge-like dread and woeful catacombic and disharmonious heaviness reminiscent of the band’s Quietus and Antitheses of Light masterworks. All while still encapsulating the tectonic-shifting nature of their Caress of the Void and Atra Mors releases while venturing more through classic gothic audial textures and even treading a little down experimental mire as well, reminiscing an aura seeping from such luminary artists as Dead Can Dance, Monumentum, and Disembowelment.
To signal this shift in sound harking back to this previous era, the band would recall the services of producer Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal who worked with EVOKEN on their Antithesis of Light and Quietus albums respectively. The result being Mendacium capturing a sepulchral heaviness saturated in ambience with even more of an emphasis on deathlike dread and anguish; an ambience reflecting the depths and catacombs of an ancient cathedral or monastery, ultimately defining Mendacium as EVOKEN’s most powerful sounding album to date.
The band’s first release since 2007’s “A Caress Of The Void” and their fifth monolith in their unparalleled repertoire (one in which every EVOKEN album is a milestone in the death/doom genre in its own right), “Atra Mors” is another new turning point for the band and an album which will be considered an essential pillar within the death/funeral/doom metal genre.
While still harboring the dirge-like monolith of EVOKEN’s signature sound of unrelenting and overbearing colossal heaviness and enveloping atmosphere of pure death, “Atra Mors” sees the band unearth their most diverse and dynamic offering to date. Diverse and dynamic as said terms to serve as a deterrent towards the band’s old-school/die-hard fan-base, especially considering “Atra Mors” encapsulates some of the heaviest, most-brutal, and darkest sounds the EVOKEN have ever unleashed, but more or less embraces what the band have culminated in their 20-year career by taking their sounds to new expansive and vast musical realms. By divulging in a stronger use of melody, while at the same time incorporating more old-school death metal moments to their sound and heightening the atmosphere even more through various forms of experimentation, “Atra Mors” will stand defiant and define itself as the band’s most accomplished album to date. It’s also the heaviest and most-enormous sounding doom metal album you’ll hear all year.
2CD set in a 6-panel, gatefold Digipak with a clear tray on both the left inside and right inside panels. Includes a 16-page booklet, housed in the center inside panel.
Known as one of the founding fathers of the American death/funeral doom metal scene, New Jersey’s EVOKEN have been a long-standing pillar over the band’s 25 year pillage. Their new full-length album “Hypnagogia” is the band’s sixth LP, their first in six years since their landmark “Atra Mors” album, and is a towering monolith that develops and redefines the band’s sound that will only strengthen their position within the death/doom metal hierarchy where EVOKEN have always reigned.
“Hypnagogia” is an expression of doom metal artistry where the listener will bear witness how EVOKEN can create a new and even more daring expression with a monument that will be recognized as a landmark. This tends to happen regardless with every EVOKEN release, but “Hypnagogia” sees the band expand their musical dynamics even more through the meticulous care and discrimination of the band’s song writing process, “Hypnagogia” being a listening experience through a multitude of varying yet flourishing emotions.
The sound of EVOKEN is never compromising
Extreme, hypnotic, slow, doom metal
Dwell Records Version
Released in a clear-tray jewel case; includes an 8-page fold-out booklet with lyrics.
Track durations do not appear on the release.
[Catalog numbers]
CD-1063 : spine, disc label
DWELL CD-1063 : back sleeve
[Booklet]
All music by [...], 96-2000.
Recorded at Wave Studios (Staten Island, NY) October/November anno 1999, additional recording done at Den Studios (Whippany, NJ) December anno 1999.
Visual abstracts via Stephen O'Malley (soma@khanate.org).
[Back sleeve]
Dwell Records, P.O. Box 39439 Los Angeles, CA 90039.
Under license from AvantGarde Music.
℗© 2001 AvantGarde Music.
Printed in the U.S.A.
www.dwellrecords.com
The first album by Evoken re-issued and remastered with their first two demos, Promo '96 and Promo '97.
1. A CARESS OF THE VOID
2. MARE ERYTHRAEUM
3. OF PUREST ABSOLUTION
4. ASTRAY IN ETERNAL NIGHT
5. DESCEND THE LIFELESS WOMB
6. SUFFER A MARTYR'S TRIAL (PROCESSION AT DUSK)
7. OROGENY
Released in a clear-tray jewel case; includes a 12-page booklet with lyrics.
Track durations do not appear on the release.
[Booklet, all upper-case]
All songs written by [...] c.2005-2006
Recorded at Sound Spa Studios, Edison, NJ, March-May 2007
Mastered by [...]/Strype Studios, Oslo, Norway.
Artwork & layout by [...]/Mellstrom Arts & Graphics
[Back sleeve, all upper-case]
[I Hate Records logo]
Box 13023 S-60013 Norrköping Sweden ihate.se
Distributed by: Soundpollution Sweden - Shellshock U.K. & Ireland
Season of Mist France - Masterpiece Italy - Soundforge Greece
official 2006 reissue on Solitude productions, Russia
