Celestial Crown - A Veiled Empire - review
Celestial Crown - A Veiled Empire - review
Tracklist
01. Veil Of Eternity02. Sacrifice In Red
03. Eclipsed My Hope
04. Deep Within
05. Night By The Silent Waters
06. Stone Heart
07. For The End Of The Days
08. For One Love
09. So Let Thy Will Shalt Be
10. New Aeon
11. Into Eternity
12. Consecration
13. A Sea
A review by
Undercraft January 04, 2006
The band once again successfully merge genres like Doom, Black and Gothic Metal, the combination between soft, melodic passages and Black Metal outbursts are quite remarkable, it gives the album a duality or a split personality if you want to call it that way.
Songs like "For The End Of Days", "A Sea" and "Sacrifice In Red" are prime examples of the improvement of the band. You'll find female vocals, shrieks, growls, melodic passages, melancholic leads and much more.
Of course not everything is marvelous in the album, some songs felt like fillers, and with 13 songs clocking over 1 hour, I feel this could have been a little shorter.
The sound and the whole production engineering has improved since last time, although it doesn't reach the quality of big productions, but that's ok, since this guys aren't signed to a big label.
If you want to enjoy a nice album filled with doomy passages and aggressive counterattacks, I must recommend Celestial Crown, it might not be the best album of 2005, but surely ranks up good in the shortlist.
Written by Undercraft | January 04, 2006
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Pretty decent from the 2 tracks I heard, which Divenia Records offers on their website. The video is decent... but it's still not particularly amazing. The lyrics are a bit of a weak spot for me (in "For One Love"), which dampers my enthusiasm. I'd be enthused to see them as an opening band however, and will still keep an eye out for their newer releases.  Fans of doomy gothic metal will at least enjoy this I think.
---- "After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." - Aldous Huxley
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