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27 lines
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title: The Guilt of Feeling Alive
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key: The Guilt of Feeling Alive
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parent: Sun of Nothing
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album_name: The Guilt of Feeling Alive
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album_tracks: 5
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album_length: 42 min 15 sec
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album_year: 2010
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album_link: https://www.discogs.com/release/2644036-Sun-Of-Nothing-The-Guilt-Of-Feeling-Alive
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album_link_provider: Discogs
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dateCreated: 2024-04-21
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dateChanged: Last Modified
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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.
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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.
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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.
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**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.
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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.
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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.
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