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Officium Triste - The Death Of Gaia



8.2 | 117 votes |
Release date: 13 December 2019
Style: Death doom metal

Owners:

65 have it
11 want it


01. The End Is Nigh
02. World In Flames
03. Shackles
04. A House In A Field In The Eye Of The Storm
05. The Guilt
06. Just Smoke And Mirrors
07. Like A Flower In The Desert
08. Losing Ground

Additional info
Drums recorded at Studio Plug Unit, Reeuwijk, the Netherlands. Engineered by Hans Pieters.
Guitars, bass, keyboards and vocals recorded at El Pato Studio, Bergweiler, Germany. Engineered by Martin Kwakernaak.
Additional guitars and vocals recorded at Hubert's place, Amersfoort, The Netherlands. Engineered by Hubert ter Meulen.

Mixed by Hans Pieters and Officium Triste at the People's Noise, the Netherlands.
Mastered by Greg Chandler at Priory Recording Studio, UK.

Staff review by
Troy Killjoy
Rating:
9.0
And just like that, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced, Officium Triste mark their 25th anniversary with a return that will undoubtedly cause the immediate revision of many a best of the year/decade lists.

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published 14.12.2019 | Comments (13)

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Comments: 15   [ 2 ignored ]   Visited by: 367 users
27.11.2019 - 20:23
Rating: 8
Paradoxical

Excellent Album! The Guilt and Just Smoke and Mirrors are great tracks.
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13.12.2019 - 08:07
Rating: 9
annodomini

It's been a long time, since I listened to such great death doom album. Very nostalgic and even uplifting at times. Could this be doom of the year?
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14.12.2019 - 03:52
Rating: 9
BitterCOld
The Ancient One
Written by annodomini on 13.12.2019 at 08:07

It's been a long time, since I listened to such great death doom album. Very nostalgic and even uplifting at times. Could this be doom of the year?


Given it's the 13th of December, with little time left to dissuade me, in my earholes it certainly is.
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15.12.2019 - 01:35
Rating: 9
MetalManic

Look out MS Top of 2019 list. This will be a placeholder.
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15.12.2019 - 14:28
Rating: 7
Metren
Dreadrealm
Pretty good, nothing more. Great performances, but too many predictable melodies and generally mediocre songwriting. If this is the doom of the year, then it must've been a terrible year for doom.
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16.12.2019 - 16:50
Rating: 10
Cassian

This is my first Officium Triste album, and they had my full attention from the first track. Now I can say they're my favorite death doom band.
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16.12.2019 - 18:39
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
What an great doom, ok happy forest are my fav song and first was and awesome, but this is a killer, listened 5 times, and I need more, its abiot new ideas in old wail and each album in one whit new touches.
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I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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27.12.2019 - 10:48
Rating: 9
The Melting Snow

Someone please tell me the lyrics of The Guilt.
I want to cry to it.
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27.12.2019 - 13:04
Starvynth
i c deaf people
Written by The Melting Snow on 27.12.2019 at 10:48

Someone please tell me the lyrics of The Guilt.
I want to cry to it.

It's hard to look back now
Of what was real
The things we had
When all seemed fine
It's not on me
You crossed that line
I did my time...
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27.12.2019 - 20:44
Rating: 9
The Melting Snow

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27.12.2019 - 23:16
Rating: 10
In Bone Factory

I have not enjoyed a metal album this much in years. So mezmerizing. AOTY for me. \m/
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The End Is Nigh ...
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21.01.2020 - 03:05
VIG
Account deleted
Might actually be the best OT album. Either this, Mors Viri, or Reason
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22.02.2020 - 12:33
Rating: 9
tintinb

This is an extremely melodious album, slacks off a bit in the middle but ends with a mammoth track. Very enjoyable doom.
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Leeches everywhere.
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06.04.2020 - 22:05
Rating: 7
Redel

Written by Metren on 15.12.2019 at 14:28

Pretty good, nothing more. Great performances, but too many predictable melodies and generally mediocre songwriting. If this is the doom of the year, then it must've been a terrible year for doom.


It is a good album, I like it.
Some 7.3 from me.
But indeed, just as Metren said, too many predictable melodies and generally mediocre songwriting, I couldnt have put it better.
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20.08.2020 - 08:02
Rating: 9
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
Just placed my order for the transparent splatter LP. Really sleek design, even better music.
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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