Draconian - Arcane Rain Fell - review
Draconian - Arcane Rain Fell - review
Tracklist
01. A Scenery Of Loss02. Daylight Misery
03. The Apostasy Canticle
04. Expostulation
05. Heaven Laid In Tears (Angel's Lament)
06. The Abhorrent Rays
07. The Everlasting Scar
08. Death, Come Near Me
A review by
Jeff January 21, 2005
For the ones who was expecting something in the spirit of the first album of the band, you must know, and I'm sorry to give you this news, that you'll be disappointed. No more female vocals, no more fast tempo, we are in the pure Doom area now. Of course Lisa Johansson is always a member of the band, of course is voice is always nice and of course she sings on this album but in comparison of Anders Jacobsson we don't hear her a lot, she is only like a backing-vocals singer on the majority of the songs excepted on "Heaven Laid In Tears". For all the other tracks of the album, the lead singer is Anders with of course his Death Metal voice and the result is a nice Gothic Death/Doom Metal.
This album is also different musically; the music is slow, monotonous. There are some exceptions, some passages are a bit faster but well in general all that really sounds Doom. The guitars riffs are heavy and loud, very slow, the double pedal drums very present, the bass is also an important instrument, and the keyboards however are not very active [they do only some backing-sounds or some few piano melodies].
The songs aren't linear, from the beginning to the end, you could hear that the band did a nice work of composition for the music but also for the lyrics. Some songs are more melodic than some others which are bit more agressive, but a masterpiece like the 15 mins long song "Arcane Rain Fell - Death, Come Near Me" only confirm that we are in front of some very good compositors.
This album is a great album, dark and full of sadness but beautiful like an autumn dusk, this is only poesy, something magic. You could see, when you will listen to it, that the band did something really surprising, and the work on the musical composition just talks. "Arcane Rain Fell" is this kind of album which will give you shivers, and if like me you are a fan of Doom Metal or real Gothic music, no doubt that you'll be dazzle of this new release.
With a great and perfect production, a great artwork in the pure tradition of the Gothic Doom Metal, I can't find any problems to this CD. This is a real perfection?
That's good to see that a band is able to do this kind of change, that a band is able to take a radical turn in its musical orientation. How could we blame them to do that, how could we blame them to do the opposite of the majority of the other Metal bands which are all falling in the pit of the banality? No, we must only congratulate this Swedish combo, they did the good choice and will only win the respect of the ones who like this music, and can't find a lot of albums of such quality. I have the feeling that I'm doing a come back in the past, but in fact, a new band is just born, and with this great "Arcane Rain Fell" we have the proof, that the king of Gothic Doom Metal reigns now in Sweden. A must?
Written by Jeff | January 21, 2005
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Yesterday I listened to this album after a very long hiatus, and it simply sounded astonishingly well to me. Heavy but not brutal, dark, sad, with excellent performances by the two vocalists, beautiful melodies, eerie synths and extremelly well done lyrics... Amazing, simply amazing.
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This album is indeed amazing, I bought right after seeing Draconian play live. more like 8.something from me, I didn't think 'Where lovers mourn' sounded that happy, but definetly is shadowed by this record. Good points there.
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The Most beautiful Album For Draconian I like it very much Espicially A Scenery Of Loss
---- We Only Fear What Comes And Smell Death Every Day Search For The Answers That Lie Beyond
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Death, Come Near Me best for me !!!
---- My Top 100 Metal Albums Of 2025: https://youtu.be/lNsS7cQZPEQ
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Masterpiece from on eof my Fav bands! 10 easily
---- Beware the Shadows of Dusk
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What an album... definately has a place in the annals of metal...
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They just deserve 2 be the best GOTHIC DOOM METAL BAND..............and it's one od the best albums they have ever had  :bow:
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Listening to it right now. This is really perfect music!
---- Beware the Shadows of Dusk
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One of the best albums in this genre. My opinion, THE BEST.
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I think this album is simply the best one in Gothic Doom. It's a 10/10 for me. If I could: 100 from 10!
---- As tyranny becomes normality; We hang at the end of the rope.
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Just too great to describe with words...perfection reached a new level with this album.
---- Ereßµ§ ø? ßløøð
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This thread is missing Vonpire's whining about someone who doesn't like the album.
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Posts: 474 Written by Daniell on 02.09.2011 at 18:49 You're the whiner, the stalker, the obsessive dumbass, not me  Don't even try to steal that dry joke!Ok, but as you like me more than honey, here you go! Whoever don't like this album and rate it below 8 is a complete troll and has a terrible bad taste in music! Better?
---- Beware the Shadows of Dusk
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Account deleted Written by Vonpire on 02.09.2011 at 19:37 Irritating little bastard, ain't ya? 
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ToN and this, we all where is ToN and Liv solo and other bands are not so close to ToN, this stays even its not, but it is
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