Eve of the Grimly [Import]

Ebony Lake | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 29, 2000)
• Format: Import
• Label: Cacophonous Records
• ASIN: B00005YJ42
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,110,424 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Author of the Burning Flock

2. The Wanderings of Ophelia Through the Untamed Countryside

3. On the Eve of the Grimly Inventive

4. Within Deepest Red (The Opening of...)

5. An Autumn to Cripple Children

6. A Voice in the Piano

7. The Music an Woe Between Horse Thieves

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Most challenging piece of art ever made, June 18, 2007

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Mai Ida Synnes "- Synnes" (Norway) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: On the Eve of the Grimly Inventive (Audio CD)

EbonyLake, hailing from the UK, released this album which caused a shockwave in the underground scene back in 99'. The septet which represents EbonyLake plays extreme avant-garde metal with a lot of twists and turns going on. Ranging from fast black metal-parts, through doom-parts, to disharmonic classical music and even jazz music, the album is a heck of a listen. You won't actually "get" this album before at least ten listens or even more. Personally I can't seem to get tired of it.

Highly recommended for any fan of avant-garde metal in its most extreme form.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beyond death metal... into something... else, April 24, 2008

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M. Titman "Abandon Grace" (Iowa... yeah, Iowa.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: On the Eve of the Grimly Inventive (Audio CD)

Quite honestly, this CD is NOT for everyone. In fact, it's not even for all death metal-heads or goth/psyche metal (you know, all these genre lines). This is some seriously twisted music. Its theme is set in a mythological time, and almost a medieval time; however, it's done SO believably well. The music, itself, is layered, disparate, brilliant, dark, beautiful, and quite ugly all at once. It's not brutal (aka Cannibal Corpse or Lamb of God) per se but it IS heavy. It's very complex and requires the ears' every attention.

Beware: each song is a very long story, and the lyrics reflect this quite literally. Most of the members of the group participate vocally, and it gets quite... disorientating, but in a way I can, at least, appreciate with great depth.

For something so extreme and different even a metal-head might crook an eye-brow at the prospect of obtaining this but... grab it and try it.

Just don't say I didn't warn you.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars amazing!, November 1, 2010

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César "Rotten Souls vocals" (San José, Costa Rica) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: On the Eve of the Grimly Inventive (Audio CD)

rare, epic, and intensive music. NOt for everyone, good for real crazy metal fans. If you like king Diamond, Devil doll, Notre Dame, you will love it!