Gatefold LP (black vinyl) with padded inner sleeves and protection sleeve.
THE VISION BLEAK return in grand style: The German duo's seventh full-length "Weird Tales" constitutes a monumental tribute to the eponymous American pulp magazine and other tales of mystery and dark imagination. The album consists of a single track that is divided into internal chapters, which are each inspired by weird tales, poems, and other literature of horror and the macabre. On "Weird Tales", THE VISION BLEAK are referring to eminent writers of the legendary magazine such as H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith, but also allude to authors that were never featured in the magazine, for example Edgar Allen Poe and Lafcadio Hearn, whose "Fantastics and Other Fancies" was very influential for this album. THE VISION BLEAK are pulling every register of their enormous musical prowess. The chapters range stylistically from flamboyant gothic rock via dark doom to harsh black and death metal parts – and about everything in between. All the thrilling elements that the following of the duo has come to expect and love is present on this record: the dramatic and theatrical, the harsh and heavy, the melancholic and eerie, and also catchy and symphonic moments. All of this is woven into a dense sonic tapestry, which is held together by a recurring ebb and flow that is reminiscent of classical composition. THE VISION BLEAK were born out of the friendship between guitarist, bass-player and harsh vocalist Markus Stock aka Ulf Theodor Schwadorf and drummer and singer Tobias Schönemann alias Allen B. Konstanz. After first experimenting with a more gothic rock formula, THE VISION BLEAK shaped up when the duo began to involve their mutual love for the horror genre. Already their debut album, "The Deathship Has a New Captain" (2004) became an instant success in both gothic and metal circles and is by now regarded as a classic. As the debut album's theme was based on classical horror movies, the Germans aptly dubbed their style: horror metal. With the following albums, THE VISION BLEAK cemented their reputation as purveyors of classy and quality music. Each full-length revolves around themes from the horror genre that can easily be deduced from their respective titles. "Carpathia" (2005) was followed by "The Wolves Go Hunt Their Prey (2007) and "Set Sail to Mystery (2010), "Witching Hour" (2013), and "The Unknown" (2016). THE VISION BLEAK, the masters of horror metal, are finally ready to gift the world their most ambitious song so far: "Weird Tales" is a beautiful and heartfelt homage to a poetic golden age of horror and mystery literature. Listen with care, but always be wary of the eldritch and forbidding sounds that lurk within this song!
Tracklist:
1. Weird Tales
- Chapter I: Introduction
- Chapter II: In Rue d'Auseil
- Chapter III: In Gardens Red, Satanical
- Chapter IV: Once I was a Flower
- Chapter V: The Premature Burial
- Chapter VI: Mother of Toads
- Chapter VII: The Graveyard by Nyght in a Thunderstorm
- Chapter VIII: The Undying One
- Chapter IX: Evil Dreams Run Deep
- Chapter X: The Witch with Eyes of Amber
- Chapter XI: Canticle
- Chapter XII: To Drink from Lethe
Green/white split double-vinyl.
Tracklist:
LP 1:
01. Dead Again
02. Tripping A Blind Man
03. The Profit Of Doom
04. September Sun
05. Halloween In Heaven
LP 2:
01. These Three Things
02. She Burned Me Down
03. Some Stupid Tomorrow
04. An Ode To Locksmiths
05. Hail And Farewell To Britain
White double-vinyl.
Side A
1 Dead Again
2 Tripping A Blind Man
3 The Profit Of Doom
4 September Sun
5 Halloween In Heaven
Side B
6 These Three Things
7 She Burned Me Down
8 Some Stupid Tomorrow
9 An Ode to Locksmiths
10 Hail And Farewell To Britain
001-030 Liquid filled
031-100 Splatter vinyl
101-300 Yellow vinyl
301-500 Red vinyl
Tracklist
A1 Cold Seed 3:52
A2 Teonanacatl 4:17
A3 Trillion Zillion Centipedes 1:29
A4 The Desolate One 3:44
A5 Atlantis As A Lover 5:28
A6 Alteration X 10 5:09
A7 Four Leary Biscuits 4:03
B1 Only In My Tears It Lasts 4:48
B2 The Whores of Babylon 3:52
B3 Kite 2:04
B4 Phantasma De Luxe 4:58
B5 Mount Marilyn 10:33
B6 A Deeper Kind Of Slumber 5:47
Marbled vinyl.
01. Into Infinity
02. Emptiness
03. Arms of Morpheus
04. Remembrance
05. My Sanctuary
06. Transmigration
07. If They Could Speak
08. Juggernaut
09. Breath of Life
10. Pain of Deception
Digipak CD.
01. Into Infinity
02. Emptiness
03. Arms of Morpheus
04. Remembrance
05. My Sanctuary
06. Transmigration
07. If They Could Speak
08. Juggernaut
09. Breath of Life
10. Pain of Deception
Bonus (Digipak)
11. The Search
12. As If You Never Existed
13. Broken
14. Until We Die
Transparent vinyl in gatefold sleeve with printed inner sleeve, limited to 200 copies.
A1. The Drama Of The Wicked
A2. Secrecies In Darkness
A3. Carpathia
A4. Dreams In The Witch-House
A5. Sister Najade (The Tarn By The Firs)
B1. The Curse Of Arabia
B2. Kutulu!
B3. The Charm Is Done
Golden vinyl in gatefold sleeve with printed inner sleeve, limited to 200 copies.
A1. A Curse of the Grandest Kind
A2. Descend into Maelstrom
A3. I Dined with the Swans
A4. A Romance with a Grave
A5. The Outsider
B1. Mother Nothingness
B2. The Foul Within
B3. He Who Paints The Black Of Night
Black vinyl in gatefold sleeve with printed inner sleeve.
A1. The Drama Of The Wicked
A2. Secrecies In Darkness
A3. Carpathia
A4. Dreams In The Witch-House
A5. Sister Najade (The Tarn By The Firs)
B1. The Curse Of Arabia
B2. Kutulu!
B3. The Charm Is Done
Black vinyl in gatefold sleeve.
A1. Sempiternal Grotesqueries
A2. In Eerie Deliverance
A3. Cathedral of Labyrinthine Darkness
B1. Cascade of Ashes
B2. Charnel Reflections
B3. Black Moss
Black vinyl in gatefold sleeve with heavy embossed slipcase including download, limited to 500 copies.
A1. The Isle Of Summer
A2. Birch Black
A3. Hollow Stone
A4. Pantheist
B1. Birch White
B2. Sowilo Rune
B3. Summerisle Reprise
B4. Where Shade Once Was
Black vinyl in gatefold sleeve with insert
Tracklist LP 1
A1. Sulphur, Charcoal And Saltpetre
B1. Descent
B2. World Encircled
B3. Leviation
Tracklist LP 2
C1. The Temple In The Bedrock
C2. Black Lines
C3. Impact
D1. Nightmare
D2. A Second Chance
€22.90*
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