The Vision Bleak - Carpathia - VINYL LP

The quintessence of The Vision Bleak On their fourth studio album, The Vision Bleak are coming full circle. InchSet Sail To MysteryInch unites the driving Goth-rock energy of InchThe Deathship Has A New CaptainInch, the dramatic heaviness of their sophomore InchCarpathia - A Dramatic PoemInch, and the Nordic aggression of InchThe Wolves Go Hunt Their PreyInch. Lyrically, it is a journey into the realms of the supernatural and the abysses of the human mind, once more inspired by masters of weird fiction such as H. P. Lovecraft and E. A. Poe. This year will see The Vision Bleak return to the stage of Horror Metal â€Inch more ghoulish and more poetic than ever before. After they journeyed through the underworld on the rotten planks of a deathship in the year 2004 (on InchThe Deathship Has A New CaptainInch), befittingly travelled the calamitous Carpathians in a black carriage in 2005 (on InchCarpathia â€Inch A Dramatic PoemInch), and sorted with wolves in 2007 (on InchThe Wolves Go Hunt Their PreyInch), our necromancers Schwadorf and Konstanz are coming full circle in 2010. On InchSet Sail To MysteryInch, they once again set the tattered, ashen sails of the deathship and head towards midnight, death, and doom. Of course, the last few years have left their mark on the ferrymen. As if The Vision Bleak were leafing through the pages of a leather-bound tome on their history thus far, InchSet Sail To MysteryInch is cruising through many of the lethal waters they have sailed through in previous lifes the driving gothic-rock energy of their debut, the dramatic heaviness of their sophomore, and the Nordic aggression of the last album are resonating on this, their fourth opus, like the death-knell of a cemetery chapel. Yet, InchSet Sail To MysteryInch is much more than just the sum of it's predecessors. Proof for this is the foreboding introduction, InchA Curse Of The Grandest K

Alexander Moyzes' symphonic cycle is the best-known by a Slovak composer. His synthesis of Slovak influences and contemporary trends in European music informs every strand of his compositions. The Symphony No. 7, Op. 50 is his largest and most powerful orchestral statement, which he dedicated to the memory of his young daughter. Peasant scenes, folk dances and exceptional lyric beauty form the bedrock of a passionate and dramatic work. Written as a response to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968, Symphony No. 8 '21.08.1968,' Op. 64 is a brooding lament that shares affinities with Shostakovich's symphonic writing. This album is volume 3 in a series of reissues from the Marco Polo tag. These releases remain as the only easily accessible reference, and with recordings and performances that still sound fresh and invigorating, we felt it was time for a revival. Of the original , International Record Review wrote Inchthe Seventh Symphony... opens, in a beautiful albeggiante pastorale- quite the loveliest thing I've heard from Moyzes- which leads into a jolly, even rumbustious, folk dance. Ladislav Slovak, who died in 1999, does Moyzes as proud in these two releases as in the previous recordings in the cycle reliable playing, good sound.Inch

The horror-metal masters' heaviest album Two years after the mighty concept album InchCarpathia - A Dramatic PoemInch, The Vision Bleak are back with InchThe Wolves Go Hunt Their PreyInch - stronger and more diverse than ever before. On their third album, you will find songs that definitely rank among the heaviest The Vision Bleak have ever written; yet at the same time you'll also find some of their most atmospheric and most stringent tracks. 'The Demon Of The Mire', for example, exposes the Death Metal roots of the Franconian duo as plainly as never before; 'The Black Pharaoh Trilogy' reminds us of the epic dimensions of their previous album; and, by virtue of it's sweeping character, 'By Our Brotherhood With Seth' has become The Vision Bleak's band anthem and the high point of every concert.