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Mooi, laat maar komen: https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Evoken/Hypnagogia/731161 Known as one of the founding fathers of the American death/funeral doom metal scene, New Jersey’s EVOKEN have been a long-standing pillar over the band’s 25 year pillage. Their new full-length album “Hypnagogia” (to be released on CD/2xLP/Digital on Nov 9) is the band’s sixth LP, their first in six years since their landmark “Atra Mors” album, and is a towering monolith that develops and redefines the band’s sound that will only strengthen their position within the death/doom metal hierarchy where EVOKEN have always reigned. “Hypnagogia” is an expression of doom metal artistry where the listener will bear witness how EVOKEN can create a new and even more daring expression with a monument that will be recognized as a landmark. This tends to happen regardless with every EVOKEN release, but “Hypnagogia” sees the band expand their musical dynamics even more through the meticulous care and discrimination of the band’s song writing process, “Hypnagogia” being a listening experience through a multitude of varying yet flourishing emotions. Pushing both their penchant for grandiose melodicism and their trademark aura of pulverizing supreme unparalleled heaviness even more, it is the base of this repercussion that makes “Hypnagogia” one of the most intense, compelling, and soul crushing EVOKEN listening experiences yet; one of euphoria, desperation, and hopelessness. As drummer/lyricist Vince Verkay says, “As we do on every record we definitely wanted to avoid repeating ourselves. We wanted to keep it EVOKEN of course, but go a little deeper with melody and arrangement and also try new things; to present the listener with an emotionally exhausting record.” “Hypnagogia” also sees EVOKEN delve into their first concept album. As Verkay describes the themes and lyrics “Hypnagogia” is, “Based around WWI and its physiological impact on those who fought. It’s used metaphorically about events that impacted me the past three years, which I will keep to myself. But the story behind this WW1 theme is based on a soldier who was so bitter about being lied to and is losing his life. He’s wounded in battle and decides to write a journal of his final hours, describing what he sees and what he feels as his life is slipping away. Feeling cheated, he makes a pact with a sadistic god that he can leave a part of his soul, which contains all of his suffering, within this journal. To feel some sort of vengeance, anyone who reads this journal releases that part of his soul and it attaches itself to the reader like a host. Each emotion being experienced as if they too were there. As the reader descends into a deep despair, they cannot handle this suffering, deciding to take their own life. Once gone, that part of their soul, containing all the misery is taken by the writer’s misery-laden soul and attaches itself to this journal again, increasing its powerful grip onto the next reader and each time its read with its power increasing.” Once again recorded, mixed and mastered at Sound Spa studios in New Jersey by Steven DeAcutis and featuring artwork by Adam Burke, track listing for “Hypnagogia” goes as follows: The Fear After Valorous Consternation Schadenfreude Too Feign Ebullience Hypnagogia Ceremony Of Bleeding Hypnopompic The Weald Of Perished Men "Life Is Much More Beautiful, When It Means Nothing At All" |
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Eerste twee 'singles' zijn vrij toegankelijk voor Evoken begrippen. Even wennen.. |
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Die nieuwe is het eerste dat ik van Evoken hoor, maar ik vind het nogal braafjes (?) klinken. Het wil nog niet echt pakken. |
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https://zwaremetalen.com/albumrecensies/evoken-hypnagogia bij mij smaakt hij goed, maar dat is wel duidelijk an evil incarnation of DEATH! |
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Ah, dat ben jij dus |
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Lekker plaatje hoor. Maar hij blijft helaas nog niet echt hangen. Ach ja. |
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quote: Ja zo kom je nog eens wat te weten, haha an evil incarnation of DEATH! |
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Het is, zeker voor Evoken begrippen, een vrij toegankelijke plaat. Maar staan toch weer een paar heerlijke nummers op. Blijft stukken beter hangen dan de laatste Mournful Congregation bijvoorbeeld. |
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quote: Je bent inmiddels aardig van mening veranderd? quote: |
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Haha, klopt. Ik ben pas de laatste jaren funeral enorm gaan waarderen. "Life Is Much More Beautiful, When It Means Nothing At All" |
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ik vind em erg goed geworden |
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Het was weer heel gaaf om ze gisteren in de Baroeg te zien. Toffe show, wel een paar foutjes gehoord. Vandaag staan ze in Arnhem. |
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- de bands ++ het bier |
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EVOKEN’s seventh full-length album Mendacium, the follow-up to 2018’s Hypnagogia, will be released on Oct 17. A masterwork that will define itself as one of the darkest and most oppressive EVOKEN albums to date. Pre-orders for all formats now live (link in bio) and new track “Matins” now streaming everywhere. Mendacium captures a sepulchral heaviness saturated in deathly ambience with even more of sonic dread and anguish, taking the acute shift back to the monumental dirge-like despondency and woeful disharmonious tones mirroring the band’s earlier works, most notably their Quietus and Antithesis of Light opuses. Mendacium tells the tale of a 14th century elder Benedictine monk with malady from illness preventing him from leaving his room within the monastery he dwells within. His faith and service to God can never be satiated. Slowly declining in health and sleepless from continuous pain, the monk encounters a hideous entity emerging through a tear in reality. The story questions, is the torment of this monk by each passing hour being inflicted by this entity or is it all within his own mind? Mendacium was co-produced, engineered, mixed and mastered by Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal (@bumblefoot). Cover art by “Worthless”. Mendacium track listing: 1. Matins 2. Lauds 3. Prime 4. Terce 5. Sext 6. Nones 7. Vespers 8. Compline |
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Voor de liefhebber. Kan er het geduld niet meer voor opbrengen. Laat het los. Sluit het boek. Kies voor jezelf. Het ga je goed. |
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Die nieuwe is me een partij saai zeg. Nergens is het ouderwetse logge funeral doom. Nergens wordt het episch. Af en toe een verdwaald doom/death momentje. Dan tegen het einde aan 1 of ander soundscape achtig nummer wat totaal niet overkomt. Ik ga Hypnagogia maar snel checken. Als dat net zulke slappe was is dan is Evoken dood. Laat het los. Sluit het boek. Kies voor jezelf. Het ga je goed. |
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quote: Heb de nieuwe ook één keer beluisterd en ik deel je mening, slappe hap. Ik heb toen snel Shades of Night Descending opgezet. |
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The quality of our perceptions determines the quality of our judgement. Our judgement determines how we interact with the world. How we interact with the world changes the world. So, the quality of our perceptions changes the world. |
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quote:Hypnagogia uit 2018 is van hetzelfde laken een pak. Vet jammer, maar er is inderdaad nog altijd het oude werk. Laat het los. Sluit het boek. Kies voor jezelf. Het ga je goed. |
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Ja ook deze is een stuk toegankelijker. Blijft hier nog niet echt hangen. |
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