Songs of Moors and Misty Fields
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Songs of Moors & Misty Fields (1997) is the second album by the German
band Empyrium
.
Elaborating on their previous full-length album, A Wintersunset... released a year before, with Songs of Moors... Empyrium delve into a more sophisticated intricacy of what is sometimes called "romantic metal", offering a complicated mix of percussion, flute
s, bass guitar
s and synths, together with its will-be trademark deep baritone
male vocals performed by Schwadorf
himself (who also plays virtually all the instrument parties, except for keyboards).
The album contains some of Empyrium's longest tracks (e.g. Track 3), presenting a more epic
-like musical texture. By many the album is deemed as a true masterpiece of melancholic, dramatical metal.
Songs of Moors and Misty Fields is the last heavy metal
album by Empyrium. Their following two albums, Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays
(1999) and Weiland
(2002), are purely acoustic
.
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
band Empyrium
Empyrium
Empyrium is a German symphonic folk/doom metal and neofolk/dark folk band.- Band's history :Empyrium was founded in 1994 by Markus Stock and Andreas Bach, but later many other participated....
.
Elaborating on their previous full-length album, A Wintersunset... released a year before, with Songs of Moors... Empyrium delve into a more sophisticated intricacy of what is sometimes called "romantic metal", offering a complicated mix of percussion, flute
Flute
The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
s, bass guitar
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
s and synths, together with its will-be trademark deep baritone
Baritone
Baritone is a type of male singing voice that lies between the bass and tenor voices. It is the most common male voice. Originally from the Greek , meaning deep sounding, music for this voice is typically written in the range from the second F below middle C to the F above middle C Baritone (or...
male vocals performed by Schwadorf
Schwadorf
Schwadorf is an Austrian market town in the Wien-Umgebung district. It sits on the banks of the River Fischa, fifteen miles south-east of Vienna. As of July 2006, it has a population of 1,692.The town is located in a seismic area above a fault line...
himself (who also plays virtually all the instrument parties, except for keyboards).
The album contains some of Empyrium's longest tracks (e.g. Track 3), presenting a more epic
Epic poetry
An epic is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation. Oral poetry may qualify as an epic, and Albert Lord and Milman Parry have argued that classical epics were fundamentally an oral poetic form...
-like musical texture. By many the album is deemed as a true masterpiece of melancholic, dramatical metal.
"This is music that effects a precipitous ambiance of vast landscapes of natural beauty that always brings sentimental sadness and haunting impressions to the beholder. It speaks of the frigid desperation of experiential anguish and delicate yet crushing weight of emotional affectations and lamentations, and aches for the uncultivatable essence of nature. Empyrium have crafted a divine work of emotional and absolutely invigorating musical art." [Review at Encyclopedia Metallum]http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=8341
Songs of Moors and Misty Fields is the last heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
album by Empyrium. Their following two albums, Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays
Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays
Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays is the third album by the German symphonic folk/doom metal band Empyrium. Contrary to their previous two albums, this is an acoustic album...
(1999) and Weiland
Weiland
Weiland is the fourth album by the German symphonic folk/doom metal band Empyrium. It is the second acoustic album released by the band, and the first to be completely sung in German language. All their previous albums only contained English lyrics, even though two songs on the album Where at...
(2002), are purely acoustic
Acoustic music
Acoustic music comprises music that solely or primarily uses instruments which produce sound through entirely acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means...
.
Track listing
See also
- Album reviews:
- EmpyriumEmpyriumEmpyrium is a German symphonic folk/doom metal and neofolk/dark folk band.- Band's history :Empyrium was founded in 1994 by Markus Stock and Andreas Bach, but later many other participated....
- Other albums by Empyrium:
- A Wintersunset...
- Where at Night the Wood Grouse PlaysWhere at Night the Wood Grouse PlaysWhere at Night the Wood Grouse Plays is the third album by the German symphonic folk/doom metal band Empyrium. Contrary to their previous two albums, this is an acoustic album...
- WeilandWeilandWeiland is the fourth album by the German symphonic folk/doom metal band Empyrium. It is the second acoustic album released by the band, and the first to be completely sung in German language. All their previous albums only contained English lyrics, even though two songs on the album Where at...