Year : 2025
Style : Progressive Metal
Country : Norway
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 91 mb
Bio:
Green Carnation is a Norwegian progressive metal band from Kristiansand, formed in 1990. Green Carnation's trend of music has continuously changed on every release one by one; from straight forward death metal in their demo, to death-doom, then a progressive doom metal sound, to an atmospheric gothic metal sound, to a melancholic hard rock sound and in 2006, went as far as to releasing an entirely acoustic album Acoustic Verses. The band released its first album in 14 years titled Leaves of Yesteryear on May 8, 2020, which marked a return to their earlier gothic progressive metal roots.A new single was composed, arranged, rehearsed and they were went on to record “The World Without a View” during the COVID-19 pandemic, "The World Without a View" was released digitally on December 18, 2020.Green Carnation is the creation of former Emperor bass player Terje Vik Schei (a.k.a. Tchort), founded before Tchort joined Emperor in 1990. It eventually split, with the remaining members X-Botteri, Cm:Botteri and Anders Kobro creating avant-garde metal band In the Woods....Green Carnation's first album, Journey to the End of the Night, was not recorded until 1998 and was released in October 2000 through German record company Prophecy Productions. The release was a folk inspired doom metal album. The Botteri brothers, Alf Tore Rasmussen, and Geir Solli left the band after recording the debut album, and then Anders Kobro from In The Woods... joined up with Tchort. Together, they spent nearly two years making the foundational arrangements for what eventually became Light of Day, Day of Darkness, a single track, 60-minute progressive metal epic which is one of the longest single songs in metal. They then did a pre-production in the studio with Tchort on guitar, Kobro on drums, and Endre Kirkesola on bass. This was enough to convince guitarist Bjørn Harstad, also of In The Woods..., to join the band in time for the final recording of the album, accompanied by Stein Roger Sordal on bass, Kjetil Nordhus on vocals, and Bernt Moen of Shining on keyboards. Light of Day, Day of Darkness was released in 2001 via Prophecy Productions in Europe, while the US release was handled by The End Records.On February 20, 2014, the band members announced that they would reunite for a second version of A Night Under the Dam on July 31, 2014). In the same press release, they further announced their availability for festivals and shows. A short documentary about the reunion show has been released on the Norwegian website Eternal-Terror.
Album:
No matter what stylistic path they take, GREEN CARNATION have never shied away from grand, gloomy statements.Founded in the early ‘90s by former Emperor bassist Tchort, the Norwegian act quickly amassed a cult following thanks to one of the most ambitious epics in metal history. Even before going on hiatus during the mid-2000s, the ever-evolving auteurs still flashed a flare for the dramatic by performing their acoustic verses underneath a mountain dam. However, there was one tale — or three, to be exact — that continued to elude them. Until now. With the ‘A Dark Poem’ trilogy starting now, GREEN CARNATION finally unveil their masterpiece.The idea for an album trilogy stems from GREEN CARNATION’s earliest yesteryears, but the first part of ‘A Dark Poem’ cites various passages from across their illustrious cannon. Lead single “In Your Paradise” reaches newfound peaks of heaviness, swept out to sea by sublime riffs and somber symphonic flourishes. While navigated with the band’s familiar mastery, the view from ‘The Shores of Melancholia’ is far from heavenly. Judgement day appears around every corner, steering them from the title track’s scarlet clouds of war toward Floydian whirlpools drenched in paranoia before being shipwrecked by second wave black metal.“A lesson learned, now bridges burn”, bearded captain Kjetil Nordhus cries out with impassioned cleans, as if tied to the mast during the album’s fiery send-off.On ‘A Dark Poem, Part I: The Shores of Melancholia’, GREEN CARNATION set sail on an epic journey into a dark night of the soul.
Line Up:
Kjetil Nordhus - Vocals (2001-2007, 2014-present) - See also: ex-Nightshadows Lament, ex-Tristania, Art of Departure, ex-Subterranean Masquerade, ex-Trail of Tears, ex-Chain Collector
Tchort - Guitars (1990-1991, 1998-2007, 2014-present) - See also: The 3rd Attempt, ex-Blood Red Throne, ex-Carpathian Forest, ex-Emperor, ex-Einherjer (live), ex-Satyricon (live)
Bjørn Harstad - Guitars, Slide guitars, Ebow (2001-2003, 2006, 2016-2017, 2019-present) - See also: ex-Conspiracy, ex-In the Woods..., ex-Moonshine
Stein Roger Sordal - Bass, Vocals, Guitars, Harp (2001-2007, 2014-present) - See also: ex-Conspiracy, Sordal, Soxpan, ex-In the Woods..., ex-Moonshine, ex-Plutho, ex-Tørst
Jonathan A. Perez - Drums (2016-present) - See also: Trail of Tears, Gothminister (live), ex-Sirenia, ex-Carpathian Forest (live), ex-Tristania (live), ex-Sonido Latino, ex-Stemplet Falsk
Endre Kirkesola - Keyboards (2025-present) - See also: ex-Silent
Guest Musicians:
Ingrid Ose (flute on 2, 3)
Grutle Kjellson (harsh vocals on 4) (Enslaved)
Henning Seldal (percussion on 6)
Production:
Cover Artwork Artist: Niklas Sundin
Photographer: Lars Gunnar Liestøl
Tracklist:
01. As Silence Took You 7:12
02. In Your Paradise 7:04
03. Me, My Enemy 7:17
04. The Slave That You Are 6:16
05. The Shores Of Melancholia 5:38
06. Too Close To The Flame 9:16
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