Cat No:
TOR205
Release Date: 20 September 2024
Label: Transcending Obscurity Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 612789664962
Genres: Hard Rock & Metal Doom Metal
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Description
Widely regarded as legends in the style, Dutch death/doom metal band Officium Triste have mastered the art of playing emotive yet elegant music, and have honed their sound even more on their seventh full length album. 'Hortus Venenum' is a special album as it celebrates the band's 30th year anniversary, and it's remarkable that even after so many years they have continued to evolve and improve upon their already established sound.
The songwriting is surprisingly effective with its disarming simplicity and clean, exquisite tunes soaked in heartfelt emotion, delivered with the kind of sincerity which only comes from years of experience, both as musicians and worldly men. The relatively shorter songs have a sense of immediacy that the previous albums didn't have, but their emotional depth is just as strong if not better than before.
There are tasteful embellishments all over the album without affecting the sense of continuity and cohesiveness; there's diversity without disrupting the overall mood and the music's innate evocative power. With intuitively arranged songs, it's hardly perceptible that 'Hortus Venenum' is the band's shortest full length album and yet it's among their most potent ones - the beauty and appeal of the music on this one is nigh unparalleled.
Suffice to say, it's another masterpiece from this band that only seems to get better with age.
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Tracklisting
- 1. Behind Closed Doors
- 2. My Poison Garden
- 3. Anna's Woe
- 4. Walk In Shadows
- 5. Forcefield
- 6. Angels With Broken Wings
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Vile Postmortem Irrumatio
Monument of Misanthropy
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...and the Universe Keeps Silent
Maere
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Hierarchies
Hierarchies
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The Ever-Crushing Weight Of Stagnance
Misanthropy
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Caldera
Pillar of Light
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The Duality of Decapitation and Wisdom
Veilburner
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But Merely Flesh
Ritual Fog
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Flesh Requiem
Paganizer
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Days of Oblivion
Epic Down
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Dionize
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Elemento
The Dead Flowers Graves
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Monolithe
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Path To Oblivion
Epitaph
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The Gates Of Slumber
The Gates of Slumber
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Five Signs of Malice
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Lake of Tears
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