![]() Keyboards accompany this funeral procession to finally carry humanity to the grave. 'Vanity', the last song of the album, almost poaches from the riffing of old Paradise Lost, low-pitched guitars and tough, almost creeping melodies determine it. Here, the band relies on epic elements like Sorcerer already did in the opener, but it doesn't seem as opulent by lengths, but rather depressing. 'Open Your Mind' also relies on melancholy and sadness, but the bright, clear vocals spread a certain hope. It's a pretty calm song that gets slightly eruptive from time to time, it exudes however a certain restlessness due to the ever-so-slightly menacing and repetitive riffs and the deep growls. ![]() ![]() 'Twisted Games' starts off quite proggy with clever guitar arrangements, but quickly turns into a doom roller with double-voiced vocals meant to represent an inner monologue. The guitar sounds, which here and there even really remind of whale songs, are melancholic doom at its best and may let one think about how it stands around the oceans and what the whales, if we could understand them, would tell us. The now eighth studio album of the Swedish doomers starts with 'The Songs Of The Whales' and right from the beginning goes into very melancholic and epic sounds and puts the listener in a gripping, but also very thoughtful mood. With Anesidora Isole opens Pandora's box and unleashes all the gloom and sadness on mankind and deals mainly with the treatment of the earth by humans and that we are to blame for its demise.
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