Embrace the Emptiness

by Evoken

Embrace the Emptiness cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: October 1998
  • Label: Elegy
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:10:34
  • Community rating: 3.76/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Dario Derna, Charles Lamb, Steve Moran, John Paradiso, Vince Verkay, Nick Orlando

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The monumental debut full-length from the New Jersey outfit effectively established them as pioneering titans of American funeral doom. Utilizing agonizingly slow tempos, crushing detuned guitars, and haunting keyboard swells, the record creates an incredibly dark, suffocating atmosphere of pure apocalyptic melancholy.

Genres

Descriptors: funereal, atmospheric, slow, plodding, cavernous

Tracklist

  1. Intro (3:22)
  2. Tragedy Eternal (9:52)
  3. Chime the Centuries End (9:45)
  4. Lost Kingdom of Darkness (11:52)
  5. Ascend into the Maelstrom (9:53)
  6. To Sleep Eternally (12:49)
  7. Curse the Sunrise (12:57)

Credits

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