The Vision Bleak - Set Sail To Mystery - review
The Vision Bleak - Set Sail To Mystery - review
Tracklist
Disc I01. A Curse Of The Grandest Kind
02. Descend Into Maelstrom
03. I Dined With The Swans
04. A Romance With The Grave
05. The Outsider
06. Mother Nothingness (The Triumph Of Ubbo Sathla)
07. The Foul Within
08. He Who Paints The Black Of Night
Disc II [limited edition]
01. I Dined With The Swans [feat. Niklas Kvarforth]
02. By The Mysery Of Fate He Was Haunted [Master's Hammer cover]
03. Descend Into Maelstrom [classical version]
04. Mother Nothingness [classical version]
05. The Foul Within [classical version]
06. I Dined With The Swans [classical version]
07. A Farewell At Sea [classical version]
A review by
KwonVerge September 12, 2010
All that ye wish to find is here. Gloomy chords, dynamic guitar riffing, nightmarish keyboard passages that evoke the stench of horror which is The Vision Bleak's trademark, accompanying rhythm section in the ideal manner and of course Allen B. Konstanz's cinematic voice, always expressive, always the narrator of stories yet untold, always the shadow that is always one step behind you. Yet, despite the fact that the sound is nothing new anymore and won't go a step forward, there's enough inspiration to keep your interest at welcome levels, although Set Sail To Mystery may tire a bit at times, not much though, depending on your mood mainly.
As with any other of their albums, there's the sound concept, different stories that create an overall impression of harmony and flow, henceforth the album may be listened as a whole so as to get caught by its ambiance. But if ye wish for some standout tracks, one could be the desecrator of innocence “I Dined With The Swans” (both the original and the version featuring Shining's Kvarforth are great, the second being a little bit sicker, as it should), the menacing “The Outsider”, giving you the impression as if someone follows you, the marching and dementing “Descend Into the Maelstrom” and the doomy, ceremonial “Mother Nothingness”.
Expect nothing more than what you'd actually expect. The Captain hasn't abandoned the Deathship yet, so Set Sail To Mystery.
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 9 |
| Songwriting: | 8 |
| Originality: | 7 |
| Production: | 9 |
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The name of this album is oh so majestic. But their MySpace songs sound kinda boring... :/
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Posts: 1522 Written by Fat & Sassy! on 12.09.2010 at 22:36 You should listen to the song "Kutulu!", one of the best songs ever! 
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Another contender, with Tristania, for the worse album cover of the year...
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Posts: 5068 Written by Merchant of Doom on 14.09.2010 at 12:54 Check Saraj Jezebel Deva's cover on A Sign Of Sublime and you'll probably find the winner, Tristania's cover is a masterpiece compared to it 
---- Dec. 30, 1334. ...And the whiskey and wine entered our veins when blood was too weak to carry on.
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Posts: 702 Written by KwonVerge on 14.09.2010 at 13:03 what do you mean? I like that! 
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Posts: 5068 Written by Merchant of Doom on 14.09.2010 at 13:13 You liked Sarah's cover?
---- Dec. 30, 1334. ...And the whiskey and wine entered our veins when blood was too weak to carry on.
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Posts: 40071 Written by KwonVerge on 14.09.2010 at 13:16 It certainly is better than the ones by The Vision Bleak and Tristania. The Vision BLeak's is the worst by far from those three.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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Well, opinions, opinions to me it is sarah, tristania, the vision bleak, all of them are cheesy for different reasons to me.
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Posts: 5068 Written by Merchant of Doom on 14.09.2010 at 13:26 lol yeah, post-sex
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This was a concept album and Poem was very deep and beautiful but... I had expected more from his genius I mean Markus.Someone always has creative music
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Although i agree about the fact, that this album its not something new in their sound, it deserves a review about its self and not to compare it abt the previous masterpieces.
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Posts: 5068 Written by VaronoZz on 19.09.2010 at 13:44 It was a review about itself, i didn't review within the review the previous albums, i just referred to them on the first paragraph comparing them to this not so innovative or a step ahead album for the band's progress, i think the fans should know that's in not something new anymore.
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Posts: 707 Written by KwonVerge on 19.09.2010 at 13:48 i dont disagree, u did give the info and ur opinion abt the album. But someone that has never heard before The Vision Bleak, takes the message that, u know u shouldnt hear this, before the others. At least to my ears sounds a bit more critical that should be. But ok i respect your review, u are really good on this, i read many of yours.
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Posts: 5068 Written by VaronoZz on 19.09.2010 at 13:55 Well, i actually think that a new fan should probably check first their first two releases, but in the end, if he checks this one first, it will still sound something quite new to him since he hasn't heard of the first two.  Thanks man 
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Posts: 707 Written by KwonVerge on 19.09.2010 at 14:00 Thats my point! ;] cheers
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