Woods Of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light
| Release date: | 27 February 2012 |
| Style: | Gothic doom metal |
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01. Lightning & Snow
02. Death Is Not An Exit
03. Keeper Of The Ledger
04. Traveling Alone
05. Adora Vivos
06. Silver
07. Career Suicide (Is Not Real Suicide)
08. Modern Life Architecture
09. Kiss My Ashes (Goodbye)
10. Finality
11. Alternate Ending
Top 20 albums of 2012: 9
02. Death Is Not An Exit
03. Keeper Of The Ledger
04. Traveling Alone
05. Adora Vivos
06. Silver
07. Career Suicide (Is Not Real Suicide)
08. Modern Life Architecture
09. Kiss My Ashes (Goodbye)
10. Finality
11. Alternate Ending
Top 20 albums of 2012: 9
Review
Lyrics This album was first released as a free promo on the web on December 23, 2011 by Earache Records when they learned of the death of founding member David Gold. The promo contains 192 kbps mp3s, lyrics, and the promo artwork, which does not have the band's original band logo on it. It has a different track order as well, also splitting "Kiss My Ashes (Goodbye)" into two parts and omitting "Keeper Of The Ledger."
Recorded by Siegfried Meier at Beach Road Studios in Ontario, Canada.
Mixed by John Fryer at Bordello Recording Rooms, Oslo
Shannon O'Shea, SOS Management
Artwork by David D' Andrea
Released on Earache Records.
Released on CD, Vinyl and digital download.
Limited vinyl numbers
Silver - 100 copies only
Blue - 200 Copies only
Snow & Lightning (White/Yellow) 300 Copies only
Black - 400 Copies only
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Wow, what a difficult review to write. On one hand, you want to reject any inclination to get caught up in posthumous worship that seems to happen to any deceased artist, on the other, it's hard to claim that the knowledge that you're playing that artists last message to the world doesn't add certain power. Listened to in context with David Gold's death, Woods 5 comes across as the most depressing album to drop in years. However, taken at face value, it's pretty decent. Nothing amazing, but well worth the listen. Read more ›› |
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| X-Ray Rod Skandino Staff Posts: 18374  |
Written by Boxcar Willy on 27.03.2012 at 01:40 Even though the news weren't specific, a number is almost always given in any accident (even those which are way worse than this one... This accident is actually very tame compared to many others) so I can easily bet he was the only one who died and I don't need to know that well the comparison between a car and a human in terms of pression endurance to take a bet on the question if he was inside or outside. 
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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| Doc G. Full Grown Hoser Staff Posts: 9718  |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 20.03.2012 at 22:02 Sounds like suicide to me, especially if you look into the lyrics of the "Alternate Ending" (the last song of the last Woods' album): "In the darkness/under the stars/With enough warning/to pull off to the side in time..." "Back On the highway/under the moon/my final moments..." I'm not going to say it was undeniably suicide, but under the circumstances, timing, and messages like that it's fair to believe he committed suicide and had long decided how he was going to do it.
---- "I got a lot of really good ideas, problem is, most of them suck." - George Carlin
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| Boxcar Willy yr a kook Posts: 9158  |
Written by Doc G. on 05.05.2012 at 09:57 It's a shame really, he could have done so much more. I've had this feeling aswell, and I do think it was suicide. 
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I love this album, it's a shame they'll never release another one though  The song, "Silver" really speaks to me also.
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| Boxcar Willy yr a kook Posts: 9158 |
Written by [user id=137345] on 22.12.2012 at 20:07 I really love this aspect, he sings about places I've been and things I've lived. It's probably why I adore him and his music so much.
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| LeKiwi High Fist Prog Posts: 4100  |
Some decent melodies and atmospheres - weak for the most part.
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| Boxcar Willy yr a kook Posts: 9158 |
Such a good album. Keeper of the Ledger, Silver, Career Suicide.. all great tracks. Still bums me out 6 years later.
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| Maasai Mara Posts: 159  |
At the time of release the events surrounding the late Dave Gold weighed into how i rated this album. 6 years later and giving this a re-spin i discover it is nothing special and the vocals are actually cringey.
---- 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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| Cthulu Posts: 75 |
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| Boxcar Willy yr a kook Posts: 9158 |
Silver is such a good song. This album has held up very well for me.
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| JOPE OF STEELE Steelemeister Posts: 3333  |
Different sound than on other WoY albums. The album got pretty high ratings when it was released which got me in to checking it out in the first place. Lightning & Snow and Career Suicide are biggest tunes here to me.
---- My vision is augmented
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 62032  |
Written by JOPE OF STEELE on 02.03.2024 at 19:42 since when you listen to this band? Its not 80's steel band
---- I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens. Stormtroopers of Death - "Speak English or Die"  I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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| JOPE OF STEELE Steelemeister Posts: 3333 |
Written by Bad English on 02.03.2024 at 20:30 Since 2012 when this was released. I listen to many a stuff, but the posts are mainly to true metal of steel albums because I think they deserve more recognition and it's good times of new discoveries.
---- My vision is augmented
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 62032 |
Written by JOPE OF STEELE on 02.03.2024 at 20:53 I agree they do, 80's metal are good, but even many new and other genres needs attention.
---- I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens. Stormtroopers of Death - "Speak English or Die" I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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| nonZero Posts: 1334  |
8.5/10 leaning towards an 8 for me. I like how vulnerable the lyrics are on this, it makes it very a honest 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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