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And The Physical Shape Of Light Bled - Ancient Wisdom

Description: Artist: Ancient Wisdom / Audio CD released 2000-03-27 at Avantgarde / Disc #1 Tracklisting 1 Preludium - Lucifer, Ai ... more

And The Physical Shape Of Light Bled - Ancient Wisdom ... Aieth Gadol Leolam
2 And the Physical Shape of Light Bled
3 With His Triumph Came Fire
4 Interludium - The Fall of Man
5 As the Morningstar Shineth
6 Serpent's Blessing
7 Postludium - His Creation Reversed
8 Spell

Newest Review: ... (such as Symphony X's inflated take on 'The Odyssey'). With his brand of dingy and simplistically beautiful doom metal, ... more

... Vargher has created a highly distinctive album that can be enjoyed with or without the support of its lofty concept, and bears some similarities in its sinister keyboard passages and interludes to the more eloquent moments of Cradle of Filth's discography under Lecter, around their Countess Bathory-obsessed era. The sound varies from a sparse, echoing vacuum easily incorporated into the darker moments of the subject matter and a full, loud, sweeping symphony of synthesised strings, melancholic lead guitars and piano....more

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And The Physical Shape Of Light Bled - Ancient Wisdom: Long is the Way and Hard, That Out of Hell Leads Up to Light (473 words)
by Frankingsteins - written on 19/01/08 (Very useful, 16 readings)
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Vargher's third album as Ancient Wisdom offers revelatory insights into the oldest of all tales, chronicling the expulsion of Lucifer from heaven and his subsequent dastardly scheme to impose a similar fate unto his Creator's vain new race of man (the scamp!) It's an adaptation of the story as embellished from the Bible and other sources by Milton in 'Paradise Lost,' a favourite text for metal bands second only to the Cthulhu mythos. The music lives up to the epic nature of its subject matter, albeit in a different way than is customary for bands attempting to tackle the classics, which all too easily spirals into over-indulgent overtures (such as Symphony X's ...

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