Ashore the Celestial Burden

by Dark Millennium

Ashore the Celestial Burden cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 January 1992
  • Label: Massacre Records
  • Country: Germany
  • Length: 54:03
  • Community rating: 3.69/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

An often overlooked gem of the German underground, the quintet's debut ambitiously bridges doom-laden death metal with highly eccentric progressive structures. The bizarre, unpredictable guitar phrasing and deeply atmospheric, occult-driven soundscapes established them as uniquely surreal pioneers within extreme music.

Genres

Descriptors: occult, fantasy, atmospheric, complex, progressive

Tracklist

  1. Below the Holy Fatherlands (5:43)
  2. Spiritual (3:40)
  3. Black Literature (6:19)
  4. Inside the Sunburnt Thoughts of Frost (5:43)
  5. Father Legatus - Of Symbols, Nature and Birth (5:58)
  6. Beyond the Dragon's Eye (7:23)
  7. Wizardry Assemblage (6:14)
  8. Medina's Spell (Valley of the Seventh Mystique) (3:47)
  9. Disillusion (1:38)
  10. The Atmosphere (7:33)

Credits

  • Dark Millennium - primary artist
  • J枚rg Dinst眉hler - bass
  • Christoph Hesse - drums
  • Hilton Theissen - guitar
  • Michael Burmann - guitar
  • Christian Mertens - vocals

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