Dead silence. Nothingness. Emptiness. There is also light black in the temple of pain. I'm waiting to die, but he's not coming. GÖDEN whisperers appear instead. A band that literally charmed me with their doom / death metal. The new album is like a dark, insidious prayer. Sick whisper from the grave. The absolute symphony of evil. Creeping and poisonous evil. I've been listening to the album for over half a year and I still haven't decided to write a few words. I have great respect for such music and my fingers always stopped over the keyboard. I'd rather go out and listen.
Only today, on a freezing morning, I dare.
GÖDEN have Stephen Flam, a former member of the famous WINTER, at their center.
Bands that took me through my youth by album "Into Darkness". Whoever
remembers, you probably know what I'm writing about. This record was literally
a revelation at the time. GÖDEN are also great, urgent, magical, captivating.
They can turn a dead silence into death.
It is as if the history of all doom
metal has been preserved in "Beyond Darkness". The recording took me
with its moods and atmosphere to places where something bad happened. My guts
tightened and I literally sucked into a black mood. Experienced musicians
gathered on the record, who perfectly understand their craft. In addition, they
can write motifs that will burn a mark in your head. The songs are long,
gloomy, sad, painful, insidious. Like a disease that slept in an old dungeon for
a long time to wake up again this year and stuck its rotten claw in us. I will
not compare GÖDEN's music to anyone. It's not appropriate. You better listen
it. "Beyond Darkness" is an album for people with imagination. I
don't know nothing better than a window open into the night, a good book and a
volume right. For just such records like this, it's still great to listen to
music. These Gentlemen are like demons in the old days. They immediately nailed
me to the wall, made me kneel and let me drift along the Styx River. Poisonous
prayers, incantations that must have arisen in the afterlife. I like the way
the album is recorded, I admire the rotting sound, the keyboard and the cover,
which is an imprint from the grave. As a whole, "Beyond Darkness" is
an amazing doom metal opus. The souls of the dead must have been the
inspiration. Demons and death. The perfect essence of darkness and cold!
Tracklist:
01. Glowing Red Sun (09:13)
02. Manifestation I: Tolling Death Bells (00:53)
03. Twilight (06:13)
04. Manifestation Ii: a New Order (00:57)
05. Cosmic Blood (03:46)
06. Manifestation Iii: The Spawn of Malevolence (01:14)
07. Komm Susser Tod (05:09)
08. Genesis Rise (07:16)
09. Manifestation Iv: The Progeny of Goden (01:26)
10. Dark Nebula (07:13)
11. Manifestation V: The Epoch of Goden (00:59)
12. I Am Immortal (07:38)
13. Manifestation Vi: The Beginning and the End (01:01)
14. Ego Eimie Gy (04:11)
15. Manifestation Vii: Gaia Rejuvenated (01:36)
16. Night (06:49)
17. Manifestation Viii: a New Age (01:23)
18. Thundering Silence (04:43)
19. Winter (04:39)
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https://goden.net/
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