Via Dolorosa

Opthalamia

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 23, 1997)
• Original Release Date: September 23, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Century Media
• ASIN: B000005HNZ
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #364,464 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Intro: Under Ophthalamian Skies/To the Benighted

2. Black as Sin, Pale as Death/Autumn Whispers

3. After a Releasing Death/Castle of No Repair, Pt. 2

4. Slowly Passing the Frostlands/A Winterlands Tear

5. Via Dolorosa/My Springnights Sacrifice/Ophthalamia/The Eternal ...

6. Ophthalamia/The Eternal Walk, Pt. III

7. Nightfall of Mother Earth/Summer Distress

8. Outro; Message to Those After Me/Death Embrace Me, Pt. 2

9. Lonely Ceremony/The Eternal Walk [*]

10. Deathcrush [*]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful album, June 23, 2006

By	Bill the Fish - See all my reviews

This has always been one of my favorite black metal (can you call it that?) albums. Granted, it's not perfect, but I gave it 5 stars since it's been a constant presence in my CD player for about 9 years. The only negative comment I can make is that it might be a little repetitive, but that doesn't bother me too much. The vocals (provided by Legion, former Marduk vocalist) are great and harsh, and stand in stark contrast to the music, which could not in the least be described as black metal. The riffs are more in the vein of melodic Black Sabbath, mostly consisting of single string, often blues-based melodies. The riffs seem to meander all over the place, but always maintain the same motif. It's rather simple, but quite unique and beautiful.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars pure dissapointment, March 10, 2003

By	Nikolaos (Greece) - See all my reviews

I bought this cd few months after its release. I knew three things about it.First: members from abruptum/marduk (though i didn't like these bands much, i took that as a "quality insurance" because i respect their work)
Second:slow atmospheric doom/black metal, and Third: i read somewhere "in the style of Katatonia" (they hadn't released brave murder day yet).This one was the description i waited for!I bought the cd without second thought.

That was it...i made many attempts to listen to the whole cd but in vain...it was just unbearable. Indeed slow doom/black metal, but the most atonal and uninteresting riffs, mediocre vocals and as for the atmosphere i "found" it only in the poetic titles and the well-looked-after artwork and cd cover. A true dissapointment.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Behold Ophthalamia, So Fearsome in its might....., September 11, 2000

By A Customer

So begins the majestic intro to a great Black Metal CD. This band includes It from Abruptum, and Pre-Marduk Legion.(Marduk fans, this is NOTHING like Marduk, it is slow, Atmospheric, beautiful, with no brutality whatsoever.) Yet this is what makes the cd so great. I listen to this whenever i want to relax and just be by myself ,alone, in a world of imagination. Fans of Opeth, Dimmu Borgir, Fatal Embrace, and Naglfar will like this cd. This is also a great introduction to the Swedish B.M. scene. So if you are a B.M. fan, you should own this.