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| title | eleventyNavigation | album_name | album_tracks | album_length | album_year | album_link | album_link_provider | dateCreated | dateChanged | ||||
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| The Guilt of Feeling Alive |
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The Guilt of Feeling Alive | 5 | 42 min 15 sec | 2010 | https://www.discogs.com/release/2644036-Sun-Of-Nothing-The-Guilt-Of-Feeling-Alive | Discogs | 2024-04-21 | Last Modified |
The first track, Sink, is an instrumental track featuring an acoustic intro. The bass and guitar pretty much repeat the same riff for a minute, before the distorted guitar picks up where the acoustic left off. During most of the song, the drums play basic patterns interrupted shortly by some fills. The entire song creates a certain ambient atmosphere that is perfect for reading a book.
Originally, I wanted to buy a different album off of a Discogs seller, but I added this to my basket as they had a minimum required purchase value and it was the cheapest CD in their catalogue. When I first heard Catharsis, I knew I made the right choice to buy the album; the instrumentals have that same ambience that I described in the first paragraph while the vocalist is screeching like a lost soul wandering through Tartarus. It fits the style exceptionally well while leaving a feeling of melancholy and eeriness behind.
After being simply a background instrument for two tracks, the drums take the full focus in this third one, Drowned Out. Though the vocalist's tortured screams are the same, the songs feels different to the first two and marks a change in the album itself.
Unreached Soul takes a more groovy approach in terms of drums and bass. Around the three-and-a-half minute mark, a secodary screech pleasantly surprises the listener, sounding about as tortured as the main vocal track. After a relatively fast-paced start, Unreached Soul slows down considerably.
Finally, Hearthealer (As It All Crumbles), the last track. With it's 14:16 minutes, it makes up roughly a third of the entire album. Starting with an acoustic guitar intro that is shortly joined by the drums and bass, until around 2:00 minutes, the first vocal lines are heard. As with the previous tracks, the vocalist's kvlt screams pierce right through the song. I especially love the scream at arodn 4:30 minutes. Sadly, I don't like the outro to the track as it gets increasingly louder and decreasingly well produced.
Overall, I am glad I purchased the album, even though I have not ever heard of it before. I will listen to it in full again, and all five tracks found their well-deserved place on my playlist.