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Release date: 16 January 2006
Style: Dark progressive metal

Rating:

8.6 | 201 votes

Owners:

240 have it
20 want it


01. Sweet Leaf
02. The Burden Is Mine... Alone
03. Maybe?
04. Alone
05. 9-29-045
    1 - I: My Greater Cause
    2 - II: Homecoming [Instrumental version]
    3 - III: House Of Cards
06. Child's Play Part III [Instrumental version]
07. High Tide Waves
08. Six Ribbons [Jon English cover] [bonus]

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Line-up
Terje "Tchort" Vik Schei - acoustic guitars
Tommy Jackson - drums, percussion
Kjetil Nordhus - vocals
Kenneth Silden - piano, strings, mellotron
Bjørn "Berserk" Hårstad - tremolo guitar, slide guitar
Stein Roger Sordal - bass, ebow, vocals
Michael S. Krumins - acoustic guitar, theremin, semi-acoustic guitar

Additional musicians:
Gustav Ekeberg - viola
Bernt Andre Moen - cello
Leif Wiese - violin

Staff review by
DerRozzengarten

Rating:
9.0
It's a wintry afternoon, the clouds start covering the horizon and melancholy is pouring from the darkening sky. I decide to listen to something soft, fragile and at the same time utterly emotional and, believe me, Green Carnation's new attempt, "The Acoustic Verses", is the ideal soundtrack to a serene and esoteric journey adorned with beauty and melancholy.

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published 18.01.2006 | Comments (11)

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