Band:	Desire
Album:	Infinity... A Timeless Journey Through An Emotional Dream
Style:	Doom metal
Release date:	June 05, 1996
Guest review by:	Gawain

01. Prologue
02. Leaving This Land Of Eternal Desires
03. A Ride In A DreamCrow
04. The Purest Dreamer
05. In Delight With The Mermaid
06. Forever Dreaming (Shadow Dance)
07. Epilogue

Infinity... A Timeless Journey Through An Emotional Dream. Well that could very well be the whole review right there because the title somehow sums up the entire tone of the album, although I think the journey referenced here is death and not a dream.

This is Desire's first studio release, it's a concept album and in my opinion one of the best doom albums I have listened to in a while. A captivating death doom release with abundant atmospheric and melodic elements, just my cup of tea.

The vocals are very pleasant and easy to the ear, clean vocals are very common in all the songs, and the growls have good depth and just enough emotional weight to accompany the lyrical and musical emphasis on sorrow and death. There are female vocals too, almost exclusively used for chant-like vocals which are great if you don't mind them, and they add to the overall feel of the album. Guitar solos are often thrown in with atmospheric pieces, a piano, and haunting whispers. Some of the atmospheric parts remind me of the Protoss #1 theme from Starcraft II, very eerie indeed.

This album has three instrumental songs. The first one is a prologue to the album that has a sweet melody along with hymn-like vocals, I loved it. The second one is an acoustic guitar passage with some ambient music in the background, it's very good also. The final track is the epilogue to the album, it's by far the weakest of all the songs in the album and kind of redundant. Overall I really like the instrumental tracks here, they add a lot to the album.

"Leaving This Land Of The Eternal Desires" is almost what I would call a masterpiece of doom music, at 17 minutes of majesty. Song #3 "A Ride In A Dream Crow" is the weakest link of the album, it's uninspired as a whole and contains a hilariously bad uttering of the words "dance with me.. infinity" which I cringed when I first heard it. "The Purest Dreamer" is another great song, a great riff and melodies, also a piano is ever present in this song. "Forever Dreaming..." is probably my favorite song of the album depending on my mood, oh and this song has a piano solo in it.. yeah.

The album carries a coherent atmosphere throughout which is great since I love the feel I get while listening this album, there are a couple of things that could have been done better or cut out of the album to make it more tight but overall this is a great debut effort and a must listen in my opinion for any doom listener.

"At last I can feel it, the burning sky over me.
Am I falling or rising from this garden of suffering?"