Chronicles of the Shadowed Ones

by MORPHEUS DESCENDS

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olivia-chan_the_bandcamper the fukkin drums Favorite track: The Cruciform Hills.

Diabolus in Muzaka Some of NYDM's finest riffs are in here. This band ruled. Favorite track: Cairn of Dumitru.

supercoolguy This album is so good that I can forgive the weird misaligned text on the cover Favorite track: The Cruciform Hills.

Sean Hampton Sure wish they’d make a Necroscope movie !!
Kick ass album , remember finding this back in 95 searching for necroscope related stuff , and to this day this album still fuckin slays

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1.	The Cruciform Hills 06:17	buy track
2.	Cairn of Dumitru 06:49	buy track
3.	Autumn Bleed 04:55	buy track
4.	Signs of Gehenna 05:01	buy track
5.	Moupho Alde Ferenc Yaborov 09:00	buy track

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The bass player on this EP is the owner of Dark Horizon Records.
Andy Newton AKA Lord Typhus. Support the artists and their labels!

Digital Re-Issue 9/15/2015

Originally Released by Morpheus Descends on MCD 1994 1000 copies SOLD OUT!
Also Released on LP by Dark Descent Records in 2017.

Chronicles Of Shadowed Ones is a concept album based on the modern horror fiction of Brim Lumley, specifically the Necroscope series. Its motifs of paranormal powers and the occult, featuring a mythology of deranged vampire-like creatures out of parallel worlds are disturbingly captured by the abrasive atmosphere of the music.

Stylistically, unlike the album that precedes it, there's less of the crushing, excessively rhythmic precision archetypical of the North American tradition, pioneered and perfected by peers Suffocation; Morpheus Descends lies in a vein closer to Incantation, more interested in subtle, evolving melodic development and alternating tempos between the frenzied very fast and the somber death/doom when it best suits the narrative. In fact, at parts sinister tremolo-picked melodies nearly borders Swedish Death Metal.

The most intimate contact with the listener is through the extremely dexterous and dynamic drumming. In all its conventional North American primacy, the blasting is clear, frenetic at times, and approaches a more ritualistic and warlike rhythm during the epic apex of the album. Closely behind it, and lacking completely this discrete execution stands the true instrumental grandeur of the album, the distant landscapes carved by the strings, echoing on each song distinctive, expansive melodic themes such as the heroic introduction of The Cruciform Hills and the desolate, pessimistic mood of Autumn Bleed. A layer farther in this atmosphere of evilness, rough guttural narratives emanate pernicious messages. Undecipherable are the words of this complex tale of hunting and death.

For the last track Moupho Alde Ferenc Yaborov we are surprised with the recapitulation of the inhuman howls from the begining of the first track and are stripped away from the metal realm, and perhaps even from the musical realm altogether. Cinematic dark ambient brings forth images of barren caverns with unknown dangers, tainted by fiendish creatures hungry for blood. Frightening monstrous growls infest the audible content of this long track alongside what seems to be very distant feral, tribal rhythms. Thus, with an ambiguous but arguably injurious resolution is finished one of the finest works of the Golden Era of Death Metal.

- Write up courtesy of: Stein

LINE UP:
Jeff Reimer - Vocals (R.I.P. 2005)
Sam Inzerra - Drums
Robert Yench - Guitars
Bryan Johnston - Guitars
Andy Newton - Bass

Dark Horizon Records
RELEASE # DHRD021
www.DarkHorizonRecords.com

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