Additional info Recorded in TapRoom Studio (Grindvoll, Norway), Ultrasound Studio (Moita, Portugal), and Bandido Warehouse Of Stolen Bikerparts (Lisboa, Portugal).
Additional sounds created and recorded at My Home - Your Tomb (Almada, Portugal).
Produced by Rune Eriksen.
Engineered by Jaime S. Ferreira (TopRoom) and Hugo Andrade (Ultrasound).
All vocals supervised, co-engineered, and co-produced by Daniel Cardoso.
All recordings were done between June - August 2010.
Mixed and mastered by Dan Swanö at Ultrasound Studio, Sweden.
All artwork by Costin Chioreanu, www.twilight13media.com.
All music and arrangements by Rune Eriksen.
All lyrics by Carmen Simões & Rune Eriksen.
Portugal has its own dynamics in the atmospheric gothic/doom metal scene, of course every band affiliates more with some of the aforementioned characteristics and I don't place every one of them in the same generic category. To be more precise, Ava Inferi move towards a gothic metal destination while they infuse a doom-driven vibe within their compositions.
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They shake your hand and they smile and they buy you a drink
They say we'll be your friends we'll stick with you till the end
But everybody's only looking out for themselves
And you say who can you trust I'll tell you nobody
This was a disappointment. I like the first two tracks and The Heathen Island, but the rest is too derivative, hollow and stripped of emotion. I prefer the previous album Blood of Bachus.
I like especially tracks "Onyx" and "Majesty" And what's your favourite on it ?
Yea the opening track and Majesty, has a Blood of Bacchus tinge to it, seems like they don't veer too far away from their sound after 2 years or whatever. Good choice with Majesty though
Wow, this is good album, I like it. Way better than previous one, which had annoyng & mediocre vocals (at least this time the solist doesn't try to sing notes, she can't).
My favourite one is "Venice In Fog"...
This album is my first experience with Ava Inferi so I can't compare it to their previous releases but what a fantastic album it is!
Right from the start I felt that it was going to be something special. All the songs are captivating in one way or another with varied melodies and vocal approaches by Carmen. The album manages to be dark, cold and beautiful at the same.
It is an enjoyable addition to the otherwise stagnant female fronted gothic metal scene of today and I'm really curious to see what the band will come up with next.
I don't see any thing special with this.i love the genre, gothic doom is my favorite genre but their music is very boring with boring and repetitive female vocals.
nothing with Portugal's and making good gothic music.it reminds me of moonspell.
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Alone in birth
Alone in the darkness
Alone in death
Alone in the daylight
This album impressed me, beautiful atmosphere in a very intelligent music... without doubt Portugal has the present and the future of gothic/doom metal
Written by [user id=137345] on 21.12.2012 at 12:24
I can't believe that i finally was able to enjoy this witch singing, somehow i find the ridiculous witch shrieks of the previous albums absent and she seems to have accepted that her vocals are just average and thus use them without trying to hit notes she can't, if they continue with this sound perhaps their coming albums will be enjoyable to me.. my highlights heathen land, venice in fog, the living end
I agree somewhat there (not about the witch thing, or about her being average ) she sounds much more comfortable here than on previous albums. Seems to have found a better way to fully express her voice. I think it might be the denser atmosphere that makes her sound more at home.
And something about this album just pulls me in time and time again. Once I start listening there's no stopping it.
I agree somewhat there (not about the witch thing, or about her being average ) she sounds much more comfortable here than on previous albums. Seems to have found a better way to fully express her voice. I think it might be the denser atmosphere that makes her sound more at home.
And something about this album just pulls me in time and time again. Once I start listening there's no stopping it.
haha,oh come on, she does witch vocals at some point with her laughs, plus the fact that their lyrics are so nature oriented in a pagan-wicca kind of way. yeah,true, the atmosphere is present for once and its enjoyable
Maybe I'm just under the witch's spell Can't say the lyrics struck me as "pagan" or "wicca", they have something to say about nature but that's not uncommon in metal I think.