Lacrimas Profundere - Memorandum
Tracklist
01. Infinity02. Helplessness
03. ...And How To Drown In Your Arms
04. Black Swans
05. Reminiscence
06. The Crown Of Leaving
07. All Your Radiance...
08. The Embrace And The Eclipse
09. The Fate Of Equilibrium
Additional info
Recorded and mixed at Lungfull Studios during April and May 1999. Mastered at MSM.All arrangements by Oliver Nikolas Schmid and Lacrimas Profundere.
All songs and lyrics written and composed by Oliver Nikolas Schmid except "Black Swans" (music and lyrics by Christian Steiner).
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After a wonderful debut album, "?And the Wings Embraced Us", and "the birth of a dream", "La Naissance D'Un Reve", Lacrimas Profundere sign a contract with a rising force, Napalm Records. They start working on new ideas and finally "Memorandum" gets released in 1999 making the band known to a wider audience with their melodic doom/death metal, enriched by orchestral/classical influences and having a sense of gothic in it. Mostly Anathema and a bit of My Dying Bride seem to float in the air at times while listening to "Memorandum", yet without copying them. Lacrimas Profundere is one of the bands that harmonize wonderfully their influences with their own ideas enriching them with pure emotions haunting the listener keeping him imprisoned under a veil of bleakness in a sea of tears. Read more ›› |
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Due to their recent not-so-good cheesy Gothic rock stuff, their older masterpieces like this one are really overlooked. Memorandum is one of these albums that left an everlasting impression on me probably due to being one of the very first Doom Metal albums I listened to
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Interesting to see that I actually preffer the two later albums to this one when I thought it was going to be the other way around. Good album though... Maybe it just needs more spins. Also... Damn the lyrics. Quite awful at some points. It only needs more typos and it would be K7-poetry. Not like I care though, just an observation when I checked out the booklet.
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Posts: 2797 Written by X-Ray Rod on 11.09.2012 at 19:11 I do like Burning A Wish almost the same as this one and Fall I Will Follow to a lesser extent, but Memorandum still stands out for me as their best album. Quote: hahaha the lyrics are indeed awful, I used to think that my English was not strong enough for me to understand them but with time I realized that they are just bad.
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Even though I'm not a big fan of Gothic Metal, I enjoyed this album quite a bit.
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This is a classic doom/gothic album, it's mad how they've developed into the band they are now, they were much better back then. This album has so much more feeling and emotion in both songwriting and vocal performance than modern gothic metal standard. It's wonderfully crafted with some of the finest melancholic work in the genre, with the piano sections being particularly impressive as well as the added harp work.
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