Here Lies One Whose Name Was Written In Water is the first full release by experimental symphonic metal

Symphonic metal

Symphonic metal is a term used to describe heavy metal music that has symphonic elements; that is, elements that are either borrowed from classical music or, as with progressive rock music, create a style reminiscent of it, e.g...

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Aesma Daeva (band)

Aesma Daeva is a symphonic metal band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.-Early:Aesma Daeva formed out of the early collaboration of Nick Copernicus and John Prassas in La Crosse, Wisconsin circa 1998...

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The album is divided into three parts, part one bringing the albums hardest tracks, part two being a more gentle approach and part three, containing two bonus tracks which are re-arrangements of the song "Downvain". The name of the album was taken from John Keats

John Keats

John Keats was an English Romantic poet. Along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, he was one of the key figures in the second generation of the Romantic movement, despite the fact that his work had been in publication for only four years before his death.Although his poems were not...

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I. A Quiet Chamber Kept For Thee

1. "O Death (Rock Me Asleep)" – 3:53
2. "Down Vain" - 5:44
3. "Stay" - 5:15
4. "Disdain" - 4:19

II. Here Lies One Whose Name Was Written In Water

1. "Introit I" - 2:08
2. "When I have Fears That I May Cease To Be" - 6:17
3. "Luceat Eis" - 5:00
4. "Introit II" - 7:35
5. "Communion - 4:52
6. "Sanctus" - 3:51