A Wintersunset...

by Empyrium

A Wintersunset... cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 15 July 1996
  • Label: Prophecy Productions
  • Country: Germany
  • Length: 48:53
  • Community rating: 3.67/5 from 5 ratings

Artists on this release: Nadine M枚lter, Prophecy Productions, Andreas Bach, Markus Stock

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Markus Stock's project debuted with a deeply romantic, nature-worshipping fusion of melancholic doom and traditional folk instrumentation. The highly atmospheric compositions heavily utilize acoustic guitars, sweeping flutes, and sorrowful keyboard melodies, completely overshadowing the sparse black metal elements. It established a distinctively mournful, pastoral aesthetic that became highly influential within the German dark metal scene.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, folk, symphonic, melodic, acoustic

Tracklist

  1. Moonromanticism (2:00)
  2. Under Dreamskies (10:09)
  3. The Franconian Woods In Winter's Silence (10:55)
  4. The Yearning (8:41)
  5. Autumn Grey Views (3:55)
  6. Ordain'd To Thee (11:14)
  7. A Gentle Grieving Farewell Kiss (1:59)

Credits

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