Meadows End (SWE)
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Meadows End - Sojourn (Digipak Edition) (2016)
Year : 2016
Style : Melodic Death Metal
Country : Sweden
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 144 mb
Bio:
MEADOWS END originates from Sweden and plays Symphonic/Melodic Death Metal. The band plays a unique and diverse style of their genre with an old school groove blended with a modern sound.Meadows End started out as a hobby project by childhood friends in 1998. This was in the wake of the Gothenburg era with bands such as At The Gates, In Flames and Embraced. Years of demos and periods of hibernation followed. It was not until 2009 when half the band members were exchanged that Meadows End decided it was business time. In 2010 the first full length album ODE TO QUIETUS was produced and released by the band themselves. It got well spread on the internet much thanks to YouTuber Ed 'Infidel Amsterdam' Veter. The album was well received and especially the song My Demon became critically acclaimed.Since 2012, Meadows End has been working on the follow up and on June 13 2014 the second full length album THE SUFFERWELL will be released! It contains eleven songs and was recorded during October-December 2013. The album is self-produced and meets all the tough industry production standards of today. The Sufferwell was mixed and mastered by Oscar Nilsson at Crehate Studios, Gothenburg. Cover artwork was made by Fredrik Burholm. Just like its predecessor, The Sufferwell will be self-released.
Album:
When Meadows End announced that their latest album, Sojourn, would consist of previously unused material predating the excellent The Sufferwell, my mind immediately raced to Ode to Quietus and how vastly different it was, not just in quality but in stylistic leaning as well. Usually, this is a practice reserved for the true and elite hordes of black metal, not the comparatively more urbane breed of melodeathers, but I can also understand not wanting to let good material go to waste. So, for an independent band trying to register more blips on death metal awareness radars, using old material can either be seen as a miscalculation, because the last stopping point, which was of exceedingly high quality, is still waiting for a continuation, or a viable strategy, because more content naturally generates more exposure.As will become very obvious, though, Sojourn is not to be missed, for it is very much reflective of its name and therefore worthy of the massive amount of time it asks of you. It is a very soothing, gossamer form of melodic death metal that is every much defined by its atmosphere as its crunchy guitars and clearly enunciated, resonant gutturals. But what the album readily lacks is something that can be noticed when compared to Dark Tranquility’s Damage Done, an album that shares many of the surface level distractions to handsome effect, so much so it can be hard not to notice under its pretty keyboards. Sojourn is noticeably slower in pace, which lessens the impact of its inherently aggressive thrashiness, and it is also less reliant on hooks and formulaic structuring, which by default, lengthens the album without adding extra minutes to its runtime. Such a lack of graspable riffs makes for a questionable entry point for anyone interested in melodic death metal but it can also make for a richly satisfying and extensive case study of what the subgenre can fully do.It is vastly different from much of the modern melodeath, where heavily saturated riffs drunk on melody and melancholy dictate a band’s identity, which can be a crutch when not pulled off well. Sojourn, actually, with its heavy reliance on keyboards on such songs as “Nightmare’s Reef” recalls a late 90s style of Swedish melody that Diabolical Masquerade was known for, as well as some more gothic theatrics that will assuredly invoke Lacrimosa’s Elodia. For death metal, it admittedly seems rather odd; it’s wispy and airy, even gothic in atmosphere like early Cradle of Filth or Ebony Tears (e.g. “Heathens’ Embrace”) and it’s not so technically complicated (or deficient) as to not resonate emotionally during some of the higher moments (“Soulslain,” for example, has an excellent climax midway before returning smartly to its main rhythm).It is definitely to the credit of Meadows End that their closest comparisons exist solely outside of their chosen subgenre, and if that sounds as odd as it does for me to say it, then I think the band made the right decision to unearth this material. As anachronistic as it may initially seem it is actually quite forward thinking; once the focus no longer blurs, the vision turns sharper, and its edges become cleanly defined, Sojourn will reveal many secrets and subtleties that you didn’t even know existed within melodic death metal. It colors very liberally outside the lines such bands as Insomnium, Omnium Gatherum, and Noumena have established and others imitated, and it does it so convincingly that it’ll be hard to go back.
Line Up:
Mats Helli Bass (1998-present)
Jan Dahlberg Guitars (1998-present)
Robin Mattsson Keyboards (2008-present)
Johan Brandberg Vocals (2009-present) - See also: Soul Decay
Daniel Tiger Drums (2011-present) - See also: Amethyst
Tracklist:
01. Amidst the Villains 04:18
02. Remnants 04:40
03. Nightmare's Reef (Area of Thieves) 04:33
04. Heathens' Embrace 06:31
05. Soulslain 08:07
06. Deadlands 04:00
07. End of Fallens 04:30
08. All of Them 06:21
09. Angel Dreams (Elven Dreams) 05:21
10. Clench the Feet of Fools 05:46
11. Forever Haven 04:16
12. My Leading Command 05:02
13. Everlasting 05:01 (Bonus Track)
Download links for all albums only on our blog here: http://goodmetalandhar.do.am/
Year : 2016
Style : Melodic Death Metal
Country : Sweden
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 144 mb
Bio:
MEADOWS END originates from Sweden and plays Symphonic/Melodic Death Metal. The band plays a unique and diverse style of their genre with an old school groove blended with a modern sound.Meadows End started out as a hobby project by childhood friends in 1998. This was in the wake of the Gothenburg era with bands such as At The Gates, In Flames and Embraced. Years of demos and periods of hibernation followed. It was not until 2009 when half the band members were exchanged that Meadows End decided it was business time. In 2010 the first full length album ODE TO QUIETUS was produced and released by the band themselves. It got well spread on the internet much thanks to YouTuber Ed 'Infidel Amsterdam' Veter. The album was well received and especially the song My Demon became critically acclaimed.Since 2012, Meadows End has been working on the follow up and on June 13 2014 the second full length album THE SUFFERWELL will be released! It contains eleven songs and was recorded during October-December 2013. The album is self-produced and meets all the tough industry production standards of today. The Sufferwell was mixed and mastered by Oscar Nilsson at Crehate Studios, Gothenburg. Cover artwork was made by Fredrik Burholm. Just like its predecessor, The Sufferwell will be self-released.
Album:
When Meadows End announced that their latest album, Sojourn, would consist of previously unused material predating the excellent The Sufferwell, my mind immediately raced to Ode to Quietus and how vastly different it was, not just in quality but in stylistic leaning as well. Usually, this is a practice reserved for the true and elite hordes of black metal, not the comparatively more urbane breed of melodeathers, but I can also understand not wanting to let good material go to waste. So, for an independent band trying to register more blips on death metal awareness radars, using old material can either be seen as a miscalculation, because the last stopping point, which was of exceedingly high quality, is still waiting for a continuation, or a viable strategy, because more content naturally generates more exposure.As will become very obvious, though, Sojourn is not to be missed, for it is very much reflective of its name and therefore worthy of the massive amount of time it asks of you. It is a very soothing, gossamer form of melodic death metal that is every much defined by its atmosphere as its crunchy guitars and clearly enunciated, resonant gutturals. But what the album readily lacks is something that can be noticed when compared to Dark Tranquility’s Damage Done, an album that shares many of the surface level distractions to handsome effect, so much so it can be hard not to notice under its pretty keyboards. Sojourn is noticeably slower in pace, which lessens the impact of its inherently aggressive thrashiness, and it is also less reliant on hooks and formulaic structuring, which by default, lengthens the album without adding extra minutes to its runtime. Such a lack of graspable riffs makes for a questionable entry point for anyone interested in melodic death metal but it can also make for a richly satisfying and extensive case study of what the subgenre can fully do.It is vastly different from much of the modern melodeath, where heavily saturated riffs drunk on melody and melancholy dictate a band’s identity, which can be a crutch when not pulled off well. Sojourn, actually, with its heavy reliance on keyboards on such songs as “Nightmare’s Reef” recalls a late 90s style of Swedish melody that Diabolical Masquerade was known for, as well as some more gothic theatrics that will assuredly invoke Lacrimosa’s Elodia. For death metal, it admittedly seems rather odd; it’s wispy and airy, even gothic in atmosphere like early Cradle of Filth or Ebony Tears (e.g. “Heathens’ Embrace”) and it’s not so technically complicated (or deficient) as to not resonate emotionally during some of the higher moments (“Soulslain,” for example, has an excellent climax midway before returning smartly to its main rhythm).It is definitely to the credit of Meadows End that their closest comparisons exist solely outside of their chosen subgenre, and if that sounds as odd as it does for me to say it, then I think the band made the right decision to unearth this material. As anachronistic as it may initially seem it is actually quite forward thinking; once the focus no longer blurs, the vision turns sharper, and its edges become cleanly defined, Sojourn will reveal many secrets and subtleties that you didn’t even know existed within melodic death metal. It colors very liberally outside the lines such bands as Insomnium, Omnium Gatherum, and Noumena have established and others imitated, and it does it so convincingly that it’ll be hard to go back.
Line Up:
Mats Helli Bass (1998-present)
Jan Dahlberg Guitars (1998-present)
Robin Mattsson Keyboards (2008-present)
Johan Brandberg Vocals (2009-present) - See also: Soul Decay
Daniel Tiger Drums (2011-present) - See also: Amethyst
Tracklist:
01. Amidst the Villains 04:18
02. Remnants 04:40
03. Nightmare's Reef (Area of Thieves) 04:33
04. Heathens' Embrace 06:31
05. Soulslain 08:07
06. Deadlands 04:00
07. End of Fallens 04:30
08. All of Them 06:21
09. Angel Dreams (Elven Dreams) 05:21
10. Clench the Feet of Fools 05:46
11. Forever Haven 04:16
12. My Leading Command 05:02
13. Everlasting 05:01 (Bonus Track)
Download links for all albums only on our blog here: http://goodmetalandhar.do.am/