Saturnus - Veronika Decides To Die
| Release date: | May 2006 |
| Style: | Gothic doom metal |
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01. I Long
02. Pretend
03. Descending
04. Rain Wash Me
05. All Alone
06. Embraced By Darkness
07. To The Dreams
08. Murky Waters
Top 20 albums of 2006: 2
Top 200 albums of all time: 40
02. Pretend
03. Descending
04. Rain Wash Me
05. All Alone
06. Embraced By Darkness
07. To The Dreams
08. Murky Waters
Top 20 albums of 2006: 2
Top 200 albums of all time: 40
Review
Lyrics Thomas Akim Grønbæk Jensen - vocals
Anders Ro Nielsen - keyboards
Peter Erecius Poulsen - guitars
Tais Pedersen - guitars
Nikolaj Borg - drums
Lennart Jacobsen - bass
Guest musicians
Michael Denner - guitars
Additional info
Released through Firebox Records.
Produced by Flemming Rasmussen.
Rating:
9.2
9.2
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Rating: 9.2 |
Saturnus had been a really important doom/death metal band in the 90s, having a distinctive sound once you had listened to them, but sadly fate seemed to have some other plans instead of letting them become great. They disbanded, but now they are back with a new and strong line-up that can do miracles on stage (you got my word for this!). "Veronika Decides To Die" is the title of their long-awaited third full-length album after a small but very promising tour that hopefully passed from Greece, Athens, and allow me to say that it is a really dynamic and deeply promising come back which places Saturnus back to the throne of withered roses and failed romance they had left behind. Read more ›› |
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| Maasai Mara Posts: 159  |
Written by Maasai Mara on 07.01.2019 at 17:51
---- You are not metal enough until you visit Kenya. The cradle of mankind, where man learnt first to work with stones and first enjoyed the sounds produced by banging stones which later influenced metal in all its sounds and genres.
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 62060  |
Opeth has long way, long long long way, same as this band should put put 3 albums Since latest
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| Starvynth i c deaf people Staff Posts: 3170  |
Written by Bad English on 07.01.2019 at 18:19 What are you trying to say say?
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071  |
Written by Starvynth on 08.01.2019 at 18:12 Nobody ever know knows knows.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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| SebaRaven36 Posts: 678  |
Perfect album the best of this group the full album blows your head with that death/doom sound 
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| Starvynth i c deaf people Staff Posts: 3170 |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 09.01.2019 at 02:51 ...and also your sense of humor will be sorely missed. Rest in peace, Marcel.
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| Redel Moderator Posts: 2264  |
After struggling for quite some time as to which is my favourite Saturnus album -- since indeed they released quite some top quality material -- I guess I have come to a quite solid feeling that it is this album. It is their only album that has only very rarely those moments where they are sort of losing me lingering out some over-long songs (here only present at Decending and maybe a little bit at All Alone for me). Paradise follows closely as my second-favourite of their albums, with significantly more lingering. Then comes Martyre and after quite some gap it is Saturn. Will we have another Saturnus album one day? 
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| Jared Archon Posts: 79  |
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| AndyMetalFreak A Nice Guy Contributor Posts: 5335  |
Such beautifully constucted melodies, and such an array of quality instrumentation, from these masterful musicians of course the best doom metal album ever  imho anyway 
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| nonZero Posts: 1334  |
This is one of the first Gothic Metal albums I'd ever listened to (thanks to MS top 200 albums). I found the vocals to be quite strange, almost moan-like, and the music slow and drawn-out. It took me a bit of time to appreciate this style, but now I think this album is great! A beautiful and poetic collection of songs. 8.9/10 for me - 'I Long' and 'All Alone' are the standout songs. 'Pretend', 'Rain Wash Me' and 'Embraced by Darkness' are also all great. 'Murky Waters' is the weakest song on the album.
---- Top 500 Albums (ordered & rated) Top 200 Overlooked Albums (with genres) So I Heard You Like Wintersun... (Time II find new bands)
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| Redel Moderator Posts: 2264 |
Written by nonZero on 29.03.2022 at 14:36 I guess for me that is rather All Alone. But Murky Waters is probably second.
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| Deadmeat Necrobutcher Posts: 2437  |
Written by Redel on 19.05.2022 at 14:21 Murky waters the best song for me.. Lol
---- Υou've sold your human essence to the cold world of dead and empty things... You're SOLD!
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| Bjamm Posts: 149  |
I love this record! So haunting, so mellifluous, so... (wishing for proper words!). The first 4 tracks are amongst the best I have ever heard! Even the upbeat part of Pretend is well-placed and, hell, well-written. It starts with a catchy, playful rhythm, but then transcends up (descends down, depending on you see which half of the cup) to a calm, melancholic sense of coping with terms: It's only pretense---sad as it is! And then, WOW, the sweet tracks Descending and Rain Wash Me with the former's out-of-this-world guitar solo and the latter's simple but apocalyptic piano sections (worthy of the track's title and theme)!!! The next three tracks are not on par IMO. In particular, I tried so damn hard to appreciate All Alone as others suggest, but I find the piano melody too simple and uninteresting. Even though Embraced By Darkness has very nice lyrics, and, To The Dreams has the heaviest riffs throughout the album, they are not that memorable. The Murky Waters is fantastic! I believe one reason why some might dislike it is that such an album with its melancholic atmosphere shouldn't culminate in an upbeat tune as this track has! But for me, the guitar work is just so catchy that I cannot stay mad about it.
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