Green Carnation - Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness

Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness album cover
8.8 | 529 votes |
Band
Green Carnation
Style
Gothic metal, Progressive metal
Release date
November 2001
Owners
687 have it
90 want it
Line-up
Anders Kobro - drums
Stein Roger Sordal - bass
Terje "Tchort" Vik Schei - guitars
Kjetil Nordhus - vocals
Bjørn "Berserk" Hårstad - guitar, slide guitar, ebow

Additional musicians:
Endre Kirkesola - hammond organ, sitar, synths, strings, voice arrangements
Bernt Andre Moen - string arrangements
Arvid Thorsen - saxophone
Synne "Diana Soprana" Larsen - vocals
Roger "Nattefrost" Rasmussen - vocals
Damien Aleksander - child's voice
Jan Kenneth "Transit" Transeth - vocals

Children's Choir (Elin Wikstol − Conductor):
Randesund Barnekor, Marthe Larsen, Julie Pettersen, Mathias Pettersen, Kristoffer Knoff Aamot, Karoline Knoff Aamot, Ida Magrethe Karterud, Thomas Karterud, Simen Ingebrethsen, Christian Albert, Even Albert, Stian Andre Rosenlov

Opera Choir:
Kjetil Nordhus, Roald Andreas Sandoy (tenor), Katinka Sandoy, Maren Stakkeland, Elise Tverrli (alto), Nina Tanggaard, Therese Fanebust (soprano), Endre Kirkesola (bass)
Additional info
Recorded and mixed at Dub Studio, Kristiansand, Norway, summer 2001.
Mastered at Strype Studio, Oslo, Norway.
Staff review by
wrathchild
Rating:
10
Rating:
10
This review could be the shortest ever: excellent. But OK, let's see why this second release of the Norwegian band is so excellent.
First as you may have noticed, the album is a whole unique song of 60 minutes: the dream of many musicians is made a reality by guitarist Tchort (Carpathian Forest, ex. Emperor, ex. Satyricon), who composed all the music and lyrics for this doom masterpiece.

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published 01.12.2003 | Comments ( 13 )
Guest review by
Bas
Rating:
10
Rating:
10
It is quite some time ago since the last time I was so fascinated by a single song. In this case, it's a single song and a whole album at the same time. Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness is an epic 60-minutes long progressive doom metal masterpiece.

I have never before experienced a song that awakened so many emotions in me at the same time. Hope and despair, pleasure and pain, life and death, knowledge and incomprehesion become one on this CD. Letting the listener experience all at once. With sometimes melancholic, sometimes hopeful singing the listener is led from stanzas like "For it was my dream, To create a perfect world, From this cold imperfect world, And all the answers were inside my mind" to others like "What is left to say? What is left to see? Where did I fail?" Lyrically the whole song is nothing less then a rhetoric masterpiece.

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published 10.10.2006 | Comments ( 7 )
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Written by 7erth on 09.09.2025 at 12:53

This is not "Shine of the Crazy Diamond".

Wait, it's not? What is it then, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, maybe? No, neither? Fraud, I want my money back!
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10.09.2025 - 22:39
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Written by Redel on 09.09.2025 at 13:49

Written by 7erth on 09.09.2025 at 12:53

This is not "Shine of the Crazy Diamond".

Wait, it's not? What is it then, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, maybe? No, neither? Fraud, I want my money back!

My mistake. Which doesn't change the fact that the comparison was meant to illustrate that, unlike SOYCD, this album is not coherent and thoughtful. It's a mere cluster of mediocre ideas
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1 hour of pure joy. Amazing!
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