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The Pale Haunt Departure is the fifth full-length album by death/doom

Death/doom

Death/doom, sometimes writes as death-doom or deathdoom, is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It combines the slow tempos and pessimistic or depressive mood of doom metal with the deep growling vocals and double kick drumming of death metal...

band Novembers Doom

Novembers Doom

Novembers Doom is a death/doom metal band from Chicago, Illinois. They are currently signed to The End Records. Novembers Doom is one of the earliest U.S. death/doom metal bands that are still active today along with Evoken and Rigor Sardonicous....

, released in 2005. On this album the band shifted styles towards a more straight forward death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

sound with a gothic metal

Gothic metal

Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that combines the aggression of doom metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music...

influence. Two music videos were made for this album. One for "The Pale Haunt Departure" and the other for "Autumn Reflection."

Track listing

"The Pale Haunt Departure" – 5:44
"Swallowed by the Moon" – 5:57
"Autumn Reflection" – 6:06
"Dark World Burden" – 6:09
"In the Absence of Grace" – 8:09
"The Dead Leaf Echo" – 7:30
"Through a Child’s Eyes" – 5:32
"Collapse of the Falling Throe" – 6:36

Line-up

Paul Kuhr
Paul Kuhr
Paul August Kuhr, III, , is an American musician, vocalist, lyricist, author, and graphic designer...

– vocals
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
Vito Marchese– guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
Larry Roberts – guitar
Joe Nunez – drums
Drum kit
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, percussion
Mike Lagros- bass
Bass guitar
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Additional musicians

Eric Burnley - keyboards
Keyboard instrument
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Tommy Crucianelli - keyboards
Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
Dan Swanö
Dan Swanö
Dan-Erland Swanö is a Swedish musician who is currently the vocalist, guitarist, ex-bassist and ex-drummer for the band Nightingale as well as the Owner of Unisound but he achieved fame as the vocalist and songwriter of progressive death metal band Edge of Sanity.As a multi-instrumentalist he is...

- additional guitars in "Dark World Burden"

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