Death of Tragedy [Single]

Abney Park | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 9, 2006)
• Original Release Date: January 9, 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Single
• Label: Abney Park
• ASIN: B000BGQT7G
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #420,115 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Wrong Side

2. Dear Ophelia

3. Witch Cult

4. Sacrilege

5. All the Myths are True

6. Death of the Hero

7. Love

8. Downtrodden

9. False Prophecy

Editorial Reviews

Review

The Death of Tragedy mixes the best of tribal, dark wave dance, and steam punk with a very genuine Renaissance feel. Seattle's Abney Park bring us their third album, The Death of Tragedy, mixing the best of tribal, dark wave dance, and steam punk with a very genuine Renaissance feel. The album opens up with Stigmata Martyr, which sets the tone for the entire album with its mid-paced heavy beats, electronic and industrial tones, and underpinnings of spiritualistic lyrics. The album from the open is much like the Renaissance running headlong into the dark ages and emerging from the heart and soul of a darkwave tribal dance club. This is best demonstrated by the song The Wrong Side and its descriptions of party districts filled with underground nights and Goth kids sporting glowsticks and fishnets. The lyrics are wrapped in an up-tempo dance beat wrapped in violin snyths, Cathedralesque choruses, and just enough rhythm guitar to make it a well rounded, danceable, yet non-popish tune. The album then does a complete 180-degree turn and the next track turns to Dear Ophelia, which is based on a Shakespearian play. The song opens with an Australian Didgeridoo and dives straight into a slow throbbing dance beat with heavy guitars. From there, the album goes into a series of very tribal sounding dance tracks with combinations of entrancing lyrics, bongo drums, industrial sampling, voice-overs, electronica melodies, and of course classical instruments such as the violin. The album runs the gamut from All the Myths are True, which tells the tale of how science ends up proving the legends and lore of old to be true and how it comes back to haunt man kind in a track that will tickle your intellect with hints of sci-fi fantasy, to Downtrodden, which spills out the utter helplessness and futility of one man's life who has realized that he s sick of life and afraid to pass on to the next world. The album presents diversity in sound, depth in its lyrics, and quality in the production work. Abney Park's first few albums did show promise (From Dreams or Angels and Taxidermy), but this album hands down puts the rest of their work to shame. --ReGen Reviews

Product Description

Abney Park is a Black Sheep of the Black Clad crowd... Evocative of both old-world mystery and futuristic technology, Abney Park is a strong and original musical presence in a genre far too used to formula. Music & lyrics both dark and mystical, Abney Park creates an emotional and cerebral world unlike most anything found in the gothic genre today. Ghost stories & Nightmares, myths & magic float in and out of a music that bounces between industrial dance and symphonic epics - from the dark western forests to the deserts of the far east. Abney Park began in the late 90's, but their popularity exploded with the onset of internet music, with much success through MP3.com in the early 2000's. The band was a regular chart topper, often holding the number 1 - 5 positions in Goth and Darkwave, and Industrial Dance music charts. Abney Park's music has been featured on a number of movie soundtracks, including Insomnis Amour, Goth, and Lord of the Vampires. The band's music has also been featured in many compilation CD's, including Cleopatra Records The Unquiet Grave vol. III, Annihilation and Seduction, Eighteen and many more. Abney Park has performed all over the North America, appearing in Portland, Chicago, Las Vegas, Reno, Hollywood, and countless shows in their home base of Seattle. members of their loyal, cult following have been know to travel from as far away as Mexico City, and New Zealand just to see them perform.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Album, June 10, 2006

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Kevin R. Lovelace "Wicasta" (Kings Mountain, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Death of Tragedy (Audio CD)

I was surprised no one had reviewed this album. It's amazing. When I first heard it I described it to a friend as sounding like pagan trance music. It sounds a bit like Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull is singing the main vocals and Lisa Gerrard from Dead Can Dance is singing backup, over a bed of nice, trance-like grooves. There really are no words to adequately describe this album.

If you like trance, buy this. You will not be disappointed.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful discovery, May 19, 2008

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Kristin Przybyla (Northern Nevada, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Death of Tragedy (Audio CD)

My daughter has just gotten into steampunk, and she started playing Abney Park a few days ago. Now I can't get enough of this band. I'm very picky about the kind of music I listen to, but after only a few days of hearing Abney Park's songs, I can easily say they're one of my new favorite groups - and if they ever tour near enough for us to go to one of their concerts, we'll both go in full steampunk regalia!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very original interesting music, March 6, 2008

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duck (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Death of Tragedy (MP3 Download)

I heard about this band when I recently became interested in the steampunk genre of fiction, art, fashion, etc. Sometimes bands that cater to a certain group or spend a lot of effort trying to fit a certain mold end up not making very good music. Abney park however makes some really great music regarless of what they look like. It's kind of a unique mix of trance beats with interesting guitar, violin, and keyboard melodies. Many of the songs sound very unique and original, but they still have that catchiness that will make them stick in your head all day.

The fact that they are very into steampunk culture is just a bonus (or minus depending on your preferences) that make them interesting to watch while listening.