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Of Loss And Grief

by Aphonic Threnody

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J. Wukotich
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J. Wukotich As previous Aphonic Threnody albums have already proven, this is quality music. On the edge of Funeral Doom. Just shy, I'd say. Brilliant playing, production, and lyrical content. Favorite track: Lies.
Vinnie61Q
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Vinnie61Q Very Doomy reminiscent of Paradise Lost Gothic era and early My Dying Bride Favorite track: Lies.
capitanostupido
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capitanostupido this album is just fantastic! strong contender for the best doom album 2017! absolutely beautiful!
Hannu Kujanen
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Hannu Kujanen just what extreme doom is Favorite track: Life Stabbed Me Once Again.
Mike Liassides
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Mike Liassides Taken end-to-end, this is an extensive canvas, driven by veteran and perfectionist musicianship. It's traded some of the rawness and tumult of 'When Death Comes' for a certain degree of softer-edged complexity, leaving both albums clearly out of the same stable but with distinctly different character.
Full review: www.doom-metal.com/reviews.php?album=3266 Favorite track: All I've Loved.
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    The band's new work, "Of Loss and Grief", is a journey into depression. In a similar way to Aphonic Threnody's previous releases, the lyrics take the listener through stages of emotional distress. In this occasion as well, Roberto has based the concept on moments of his own life and personal experiences, channelling these events in words through his extreme vocal style written as short stories, merged with decaying and emotional music. The narrated themes are a description of mental breakdowns, moments of depression, dreams of suicide and human decay.

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1.
Despondency 11:42
Despondency The world out there is blurring. Future collapses and dreams with it. There's no salvation, there's no tomorrow, all out there has been condemned. Endlessly falling in the dark, and you falling with it. Paranoid, depressed, mind tormented, nightmares' nest. Despondency eating your world despair mantle surrounding your soul. The world out there is no more, nowhere left to run. Facing the truth by staring at the gloom, your eyes blinded by the impending doom. Nothing left to say, nothing to scream anymore voiceless cries / in your head begging for you / to be dead. Endless woe. Stench of lifeless hopelessness.
2.
Life Stabbed Me Once Again There's no happiness in this world. We try to preserve but we're just able to destroy. Promises are words made of thin air, grains of sand falling away through open fingers. Smiles (are) like salt on wounds, wounds that won't heal. Life has twisted the knife once again. Life stabbed me once again. While we're looking for forgiveness, trying to find a meaning in all this, you feel those hands you've trusted holding you steady and a cold spike piercing your back. Life has twisted the knife once again. Life has betrayed me once again. Promises are fading memories, grains of sand falling away through open fingers. There's no happiness in this world.
3.
All I've Loved No need to hide anymore, out from the cave I've been hidden in for too long... So don't look at me like a ghost, even there's nothing still alive where I'm from. Battles made me stronger day by day and there are deeper scars, where you won't see them. Still tasting blood in my mouth I got used to eating just dust, like gravel grinding my teeth. Standing up / after every clash, I've just found / death all around (me). Surviving losses and crying till unconscious, I've emptied myself of all emotions. I've killed them all deep within. I'm the closest being to nothingness. I've nothing to lose anymore, all I've loved is lost. All I've loved is lost.
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Lies 19:30
Lies Visions of a living darkness, monsters coming to rape your soul. Shadows moving from wall to wall. Suffocating prisoner of a deep slumber. Colours slowly fading leaving room for obscure shades of vermillion patterns like blood, like gore, like tortured corpses hanging from black ropes. (like tortured corpses hanging from black ropes) Sanctuary of terror, horrors away confined. Like secrets locked in forgotten closets. Dead's whom life has been denied. On wings of crows and ravens, traveling towards nothingness. Hostage of the flowing of time, I cannot distinguish one day or another. - It's flowing and I can hear it around me, while slowly erases particles of what my eyes feel as reality. I thought I had everything a man can wish to have. but my hands were empty and my heart was cold. I thought my eyes could challenge the sun. My blindness is the result of my braveness. I thought I could stand over the top of the highest mountain but the fall showed just how fragile my bones were. I thought I could survive death and live forever but my carcass is the answer to that dream of eternity. And now nothing is left, I don't have anyone to help me forget. How stupidity has been made man, how uselessness has been made flesh. And voices out there, like moaning of infants separated from the womb and still, I feel my eyes turning blind in an endless mirroring of pain convulsions make me feel alive, but there's no life because you know it's just a lie. Immortality of the human thoughts, just a stain of ink on white inanimate sheets. Just a sequence of sounds like tales from father to son. creation / of emotions / to justify / a stillborn life. And we keep telling stories, to people around us and to ourselves. Trying to escape those shades on the walls, that suffocating slumber which keeps us prisoners. Trying to colour the world out there to make it look less miserable, of how it really is. We keep lying, not to think we are dying.
5.
RED SPIRITS IN THE WATER Something is moving escaping my body. Powerless, embraced by water like dead by casket. Water, crystal clear, turning slowly vermilion. I feel it, it's abandoning me. Life so dear leaving me there, while a whole existence is running to attend my death. Adrift, floating while my limbs are turning frozen cold. I can see red spirits in the water, putting asunder body and soul. Crimson waters, self judgment altar. Scarlet spirits in the water, euthanasia worshippers. Electric moons and stars guide my path, watching my crossing from a ceiling-like sky. While the last drops are falling, I feel I'm stepping where there's no more chance to say goodbye.
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A Thousand Years Sleep Eyes can't keep open any longer, nothing there to be seen. Needles thrusted through broken gaze, forever blinded. Pleasantly crippled and abandoned to darkness. Rejecting consciousness to escape an overwhelming truth. It's not painful, it's like silently falling, like silently falling deep in a thousand years sleep. Tragedies out there, and endless despair. Longing for a distant home, a place to belong. Eyes are too tired to keep watching the world's decay. Better close them forever no more being awake. Like falling in the deep, abandoned while drowning without fighting back astray, plunging down in. A thousand of years of silence, like a corpse in grave of sadness, a thousand years of sleep in absolute blackness.

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“This is a colossal 73-minute journey into darkness, travelling with the band through crushing soundscapes of emotional distress and internal ruin. Of Loss and Grief revels in creating huge depressive soundscapes full of feelings of loss, woe, and tragedy. Slow and heavy, moving with glacial intent and despondent allure, the songs gradually unfold into dark hymns to mourning and death. Richly sombre leads and layers of keyboards increase the emotive impact of the songs as they work their way through your emotional defences, dragging you down out of the light into the band’s underground world of loss and pain. It’s not pleasant, but it’s not called funeral doom for no reason”. - Wonderbox Metal

"Don't be fooled into thinking that makes it any less of a harrowing and - yes, funereal - experience, however. Contributions like Riccardo's shifting guitar lines, Juan Escobar's clean vocals and keyboards, and the lovely semi-acoustic and choral inputs along the way may contrast against the darker and more cavernous passages, but they venture no further toward the light than a sense of abiding melancholy and grief. Sadly, this album also marks the end of Rob Mura's time with the band. I don't know if he knew this would be a swansong at the time of recording, but regardless, it's a real high note to end on. Or, more accurately, a low one: his deep and bitter growls give 'Of Loss...' a real bite and conviction. A hard act to replace, without doubt, but that's for the future - here, he's just about perfect. And, for me, the multi-layered vocals on 'All I've Loved', including a beautiful clean performance from Sophie Day, are a simply sublime album highlight." - DoomMetal.com

“A quintet at the time, Aphonic Threnody's most recent album, Of Loss and Grief, explores many stirring tropes of doom. Over six songs, the international band rips your heart out with poignant and diverse compositions. Subtle homages to My Dying Bride and Mournful Congregation emerge, the opening "Despondency" certainly makes that clear Much of this tone carries throughout the first half of the record. Personally, it all seems to build to Of Loss and Grief's fourth track, "Lies." The nearly 20-minute track is the album's evocative centerpiece. A primarily acoustic piece, it taps into an emotional center that thunderous death-doom can sometimes fail to reach. Of course, Aphonic Threnody marries this acoustic dirge—accentuated by somber piano keys—to towering sections of guitar riffs. It is at its best on this track in particular.” - Metal Injection

“They sure achieved that aim on this album, from start to finish, I physically felt the envelopment of this depressive veil, perhaps through prior emotional conditioning but mostly via deftly skilful, if not a tad generic, funereal doom metal.” - Overdrive Music Magazine

“Vocally, the album has plenty of grief (for lack of a better word) and makes for a really captivating listen. The deep growls are impressive and command attention but do not come across as too monotone or grating during these tracks. Funeral Doom can run the risk of sounding far too similar to itself track after track but these guys do a good job crafting songs and music that can differentiate itself from song to song. Even the length of the tracks works perfectly here, as giving the longest of the songs at the start and around the middle of the album surely showcase the weight of the band, but allow the shorter songs to act as a slight buffer if you will between them. As odd as that may seem, given the band’s constant pursuit of despondency, there is something nice about not having each and every track break come close to the 15-minute mark or more.
That being said though, a real highlight and focal point of the album comes in the longest track, “Lies”. Giving the listener a bit of everything the band has to offer, the near 20-minute track breezes by and creates some truly haunting moments. The clean vocals used in the track are bright, and beautiful, which are the perfect fit against the acoustic guitars and gorgeous piano work throughout the first part of the track. As the song builds to the heavier sections, the tension feels real and shows that these guys are great song writers. The flow of the track is commendable and the back and forth with the heavier and slower sections feels natural. The band shows they can work well within the more confined structure of an eight minute piece, or going all out over 19 plus minutes.” - Metal-Observer

“In the six songs there are no fillers, all of it is the result of a true and perceived inspiration for the dark side of life that is in each of us and which the doom listener constantly nourishes. The ideas and the sounds flow naturally, there is nothing manieristic: these songs tell a journey in human misery, the loss of hope, and an endless passage like Lies must find the listener prepared for this art form that, a hectic and often inconclusive world, needs to be slowly metabolized to penetrate deep into the soul.” - metaleyes.iyezine.com/aphonic-threnody-of-loss-and-grief/

"It’s difficult to describe music of the kind captured in these two songs without resorting to cliched terms — because they so grippingly capture primal sensations of loss, grief, and the haunting specter of despair. They sink deep into lightless pools of tears, dragged down by cavernous, craggy vocals, groaning riffs, and moaning arpeggios. They also reflect the emotional shattering that comes from personal trauma, nerves pushed to the breaking point in “Life Stabbed Me Once Again” by a searing guitar solo and tortured shrieks.

But Aphonic Threnody find a kind of mystical relief from these oppressive clouds of gloom, shining glimmering lights into these graves of vanquished dreams. Moments of tragic beauty can be found in both songs, and the core melodies are as enthralling as they are sorrowing. And in the second song, “All I Have Loved”, Soph Day’s gorgeous voice (both somber and soaring) pulls particularly hard on the heartstrings, just as the band themselves build to a plateau of ashen grandeur, with equally sublime and mournful strings accenting the music. It may be one of the most beautiful metal songs you’ll hear this year — and also one of the most anguished." - No Clean Singing

“The Aphonic Threnody of "Of Loss And Grief" is, therefore, a band that is deeply different from the beginning; however, they do not betray expectations and even this second album is a bomb.
Such a crude and profound suffering that one can not, once again, remain indifferent to the music of the Aphonic Threnody. So alive, so full, that it seems to be able to touch it with every new riff, every shout. Poor gems of this caliber are rarely heard, but perhaps it is good, because we can appreciate them even more.” - www.aristocraziawebzine.com/recensioni/8757-aphonic-threnody-of-loss-and-grief

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released October 9, 2017

Aphonic Threnody
Roberto Mura - Vocals
Riccardo Veronese - Guitar and Bass
Juan Escobar C. - Keys
Marco - Drums

Guests:
Track One - Despondency - Alesk Derelictus - Bass (Funeralium)
Track Two - Life Stabbed Me Once Again - Frederic-Patte Brasseur - Solo (Funeralium)
Track Three - All I've Loved - Soph Day - Vocals (Alunah - courtesy of Napalm Records)
Track Four - Lies - Justin Arthur Hartwig - Lead Guitars (Mournful Congregation) &
Josh Moran - Acoustic Guitar (Vacant Eyes)
Track Five - Red Spirits in The Water - Dominic - Bass (Worship)
Track Six - A Thousand Years Sleep - Sami Rautio - Vocals (My Shameful) &
Justin Arthur Hartwig - Lead Guitars (Mournful Congregation)

Mixed and mastered by Riccardo Veronese at Aphonic Threnody Studios 2017

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"Fueled by a supremely bitter and very primal growl, this is the kind of doom band who capture the heart and then drag it to hell. Incredibly emotional in their raw heaviness, this is what doom should be about."
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