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Album Description
Romantic gothic / doom metal emerges from Draconian's debut, Where Lovers Mourn, a release custom-tailored for bleak and lonely autumn nights. Melancholic female vocals harmoniously compliment heavy guitar riffs and expressive keyboard lines, with aggressive male vocals giving the tracks an added edge. Draconian perfectly balances heaviness and melody, and will charm fans of both the gothic and doom genre.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars

Interesting new gothic/doom band August 7, 2004
5 out of 6 found this review helpful

Long songs, some guy who sounds like Johan Edlund (Tiamat) during the clean parts and the guy from My Dying Bride during the more extreme parts. Wispy almost ghost like female vocals are apparent most of the time. Uses many synths, keyboards and acoutics to convey its funeral dirge sound. Obviously influenced greatly by My Dying Bride. Basically what I'm saying is this is essentially your normal Doom/gothic metal crossover heard many, many times before. Draconian don't reinvent the genre or really even do anything that hasn't been done before. They just take a sound that many have failed miserably to create and do a very good job with it. Recombining the elements of all the greats to create a familar, yet original sound. In doing so they join the ranks of My Dying Bride, Katatonia, Paradise Lost, Tiamat and ...How Like a Winter as one of the best doom metal bands. This is an impressive debut and hopely they will be a bit more creative in the future. My one complaint is the lyrics, which get a little too melodramatic and weepy for my tastes. Tolerable though. I recommend this to any fan of gothic or doom metal on the harder side of the genres.

3 out of 5 stars

Too much influence, not enough originality December 6, 2004
5 out of 10 found this review helpful

Draconian's debut on Napalm Records had potential, but they show too much of their influences and not enough of their own creativity. Combine this with a female vocalist that's nothing more than eye candy and stupid satanic lyrics that feature the same woefully overdone weepy doom dying-rose-romance antics and anti-Christian propaganda, and you start to think to yourself, "maybe I'll just put My Dying Bride back on." The band sounds like a cross between My Dying Bride, Tristania, and Opeth. They open the disc with a nearly thirteen-minute doom metal overture, called "The Cry of Silence" (no doubt influenced by a My Dying Bride song that isn't much shorter and has a strikingly similar name, maybe?), going into the Opeth/Dark Tranquillity-influenced "Silent Winter." The latter was the first I'd heard of Draconian, and it didn't do anything for me. The best song is "The Amaranth," which is ruined by the raucous, poorly-executed male growling. The girl sings a lot of it, although as I said she's not really that good.

If you want doom, buy My Dying Bride or In the Woods instead. If you want gothic, buy Tristania or How Like A Winter instead. if you want melodeath, buy Opeth instead. This band could be good if they'd drop the stupid cliche satan crap (their next album is supposedly going to be a concept album about, you guessed it, Satan) and concentrate on making original songs with above-average musicianship. Instead, they come off as little more than an amateurish gallery of influence.

4 out of 5 stars

Gloom and Doom for everyone! June 22, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I thoroughly enjoyed this album and am patiently awaiting "The Burning Halo". I am a particular fan of just straight out gloomy, depresssing, atmospheric metal. And this just seeps with it. As well, I am a fan of beutiful female goth vocals and Lisa Johansson has become one of my favorites. I love the lyrics, even though I am a Christian, they are poetically dark and I enjoy them despite them having "satanic" undertones. Ths music, to me, is amazing.

This is the breakdown on the tracks, in my opinion.

1. The Cry of Silence
A fairly big 12:42 long song that just drips with gloom. This helps introduce Draconian as a band with dark, low vocals and beutiful goth female vocals. I love this song.

2. Silent Winter
A bit of a letdown after the previous song but this has a intresting tune to it. Fast yet brooding. Yet again Lisa just shines in this song.

3. A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
One of thier best overall, I heard this song on thier mp3 page and was hooked. This song, to me defines Draconian. The guitars, drums, vocals, everything is defined in this song. This is one of my favorite overall songs. Oh yeah, it drips with saddness.

4. The Solitude
A nice overall song but doesn't stand out much. I love the starting portion but it gets repetative as it continues. Even though, it's still a good song.

5. Reversion and Secessum
I don't listen to this song much. It's your basic Draconian song with gloom and doom. Lisa does offer some intresting vocals here though.

6. The Amaranth
A redone version of, without a doubt, thier best song. However, this version hardly compares with the orginal "The Amaranth". I still love this but I love the soft almost hazy quality of Lisa's voice. On the plus side, they kept the same lyrics and I love these lyrics.

7. Arkerousia
Oh god, if only this one a minute or two longer (2:32). This song is my favorite on this cd. Her voice just resounds with gracefullness. I love it. And the quiet and hushed quality of the song. Great song.

8. It Grieves My Heart
Starts strong and ends strong. This song is one of thier better ones. I really liked the song around 3:00. I liked how they changed it up and just switched to s different style. Very good.

The only reason why I didn't give this 5 stars is because it's 52:28 minutes long and that's because of the lenth of the first song. I owuld of have seen maybe 2 more songs there, maybe one in the likeness of Akherousia. However, I love this album. It's an amazing album.

3 out of 5 stars

I will just call it doom metal October 29, 2005
Way back in the day when mp3.com was actually a web community for bands and listeners to hear new music, I would wander aimlessly searching for any death metal, black metal or general metal bands that I could find. And through this random searching I would often find pretty decent music. But of course it's rare to find a truly memorable band that was never heard of previously. Such as the band Draconian. This is some blistering and atmospheric black metal, dipped in the slowly forebodding nature of doom metal with the brutality of death metal added in for good measure. It's a mixed bag in the musical department, with clean male and female vocals, keyboard and other snyth noises. But they do it in a way without sounding cookie cutter or cheesy. Draconian have one key component in their sound that make them such a memorable and honorable listen for me is the beutiful melodies molded with the shifting progression into darker and death/doom territory. I haven't listened to anything else (well besides Forest Stream) that has taken me through such a mood driven musical experience. Instead of titling this some lame metal sub-genre-genre. I will just call it doom metal. And very good at that. Pick this up if you don't mind a mixed array of musical stylings blended all together to make a creative and mournful listen.

4 out of 5 stars

Pretty addicting... January 10, 2006
Yes, they don't do anything that's never been done before. O.k., I agree. But what they do, they do it well.

Some obvious comparisons would be Katatonia and some My Dying Bride. Who in this style of metal wasn't??? It's unfair to hold that against trying out this band's work which is very good.

This album grew on me. It took a while but with a few more listenings, the hypnotic atmosphere slowly took over my brain and now I hear this album in my head all day long. I have not taken this one out of rotation since it came out.

You can go for a relaxing walk while listening. You can rip down the freeway. You can work out to it. It's good day or night. This album will OWN YOUR ASS!!!

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