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░ ██ ██ Artist: Clouds ██ ██
▓ █░░ ■█ Album: Doliu █■ ░░█
■ █▓▀ █ Year: 2014 █ ▀▓█ ░
█ ▓ Rel. Date: 2014-10-19 ▓ █
▒ ▒ Genre: Metal ▒ ▒
█▄ ░ Label: Domestic Genocide Records ░ ▄█
░ █▄ ░ Source: CD ░ ▄█
░ █▓ Type: Album ▓█ ░
▓ █ Quality: VBR, 44.1kHz, Joint Stereo █ ░ ▓
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█ The music is dedicated to departed ones, loved █
█ ones who now, are no longer amongst us. This is █
█ how Clouds describes their own music. Clouds first █
█ and only released album focal point is pure █
█ misery, the depression, empty hearts and minds, █
█ represented by sorrowful melancholic doom metal. █
█ The first song You went so silent has at first a █
█ strong atmospheric character, introducing the █
█ album soft and clammed. It starts off with clean █
█ vocals supported by a shy piano, gaining the power █
█ it needs, and at its peak it falls apart into █
█ black grief and despair, pure misery, into █
█ emotional void. While the sound first shimmers █
█ weak, creeps around in the dark, where every tone █
█ dies away, it collapses brutally in the second █
█ part, turning dark and intense. Black vocals set █
█ in with strong distorted guitars and in the █
█ background emotes the afterglow of the first █
█ calmer theme, now played by a stretched high █
█ pitched guitar. The tension stays through the █
█ complete track and only dies away towards the end █
█ and returns back to the first theme, where only a █
█ piano remains, finishing the song alone. █
█ Two different vocalists participate at this album, █
█ what leads to them alternating between high █
█ pitched clean vocals and black, cloudy vocals. █
█ When the dark vocals start off, Clouds takes you █
█ to a gloomy place, where the air is hard to █
█ breath, the sun never seems to shine. Where █
█ darkness oppresses you, the despair nags on your █
█ heart and soul. The beginning of the blackened █
█ vocals is a relief, a cry descending from an █
█ aching heart . The tension breaks as soon as the █
█ sound changes from deep sorrow to utter despair, █
█ but exactly this moment, where everything falls █
█ apart, picks up Clouds, focusing only on its █
█ misery, the perceived emptiness. They slow it █
█ down, disclosing its intestines, presenting us the █
█ devastation this feeling conserves and Clouds even █
█ has the aptitude to make you experience this █
█ feeling. The tension that has been dammed up, gets █
█ released, the heart cries, reveals the appearance █
█ of this moment where only emptiness seems to be █
█ dominating, where nothing seems to matter, where █
█ everything seems lost. █
█ This music is best served with a bottle of vodka █
█ and some alone time at home. Their music is █
█ miserable and also beautiful at the same time, █
█ melodic and fluent. It culminates in misery, where █
█ the depression feels good, like a cry, the long █
█ expected and finally arrived sob. Clouds █
█ instrumental composition reminds me from What Mad █
█ Universe. It is also particular cinematic, with an █
█ strong density, where mainly the guitar has a █
█ melodic character on a grinding drum- and █
█ bass-ground. While Clouds use vocals during these █
█ intense parts, to add more a more despairing █
█ character, the devastation of a person confronted █
█ by the loss of someone close , punctuating the █
█ emotions felt right at its realization. █
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░ 1. You Went So Silent 8:25 ░
░ 2. If These Walls Could Speak 6:14 ░
░ 3. Heaven Was Blind to My Grief 8:44 ░
░ 4. A Glimpse of Sorrow 12:10 ░
░ 5. The Deep Vast Emptiness 13:06 ░
░ 6. Even if I Fall 8:22 ░
░ 57:01 ░
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