Evoken

Evoken: Mendacium [2 Vinyl LP]

De amerikanska death/funeral doom-legenderna Evoken är tillbaka med sitt sjunde album Mendacium. Mörkare och tyngre än 2018 års Hypnagogia återvänder skivan till den monumentala tyngden från Quietus och Antithesis of Light, samtidigt som den väver in gotiska och experimentella inslag inspirerade av Dead Can Dance, Monumentum och Disembowelment. Producerad av Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal framstår Mendacium som Evokens mest krossande och mäktiga album hittills, med en atmosfär av katakomber och uråldriga katedraler. För fans av Bell Witch, Esoteric och My Dying Bride.

Evoken: Antithisis of light 2011 [CD]

Tung doom metal från New Jersey. Detta är en återutgivning av bandets andra platta, som först kom ut 2001. Den här versionen av "Quietus" inkluderar två bonusspår; en instrumentallåt och låten "Ascension of the Infernal Sephiroth" som spelades in 1992 innan bandet bytte namn till Evoken (de hette då Funereus).

Evoken: A caress of the void/Omniscient [CD]

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. “Shades of Night Descending”is the first recording by Evoken, released in 1994, and for a debut recording, it is a surprisingly mature creation. The later works of Evoken have a thicker wall of sound and plenty of production tricks in them, but the deviations from the basic formula introduced here have been essentially more polishing that actual rethinking of the format. 

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. “Shades of Night Descending”is the first recording by Evoken, released in 1994, and for a debut recording, it is a surprisingly mature creation. The later works of Evoken have a thicker wall of sound and plenty of production tricks in them, but the deviations from the basic formula introduced here have been essentially more polishing that actual rethinking of the format.