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| Turning Season Within | 
 enlarge | Artist: Draconian
Label: Napalm /Spv
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
Buy New: $11.24
You Save: $5.74 (34%)
New (30) Used (8) from $10.12
Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 25291
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 350642
UPC: 693723506425
EAN: 0693723506425
ASIN: B0012GJEM6
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW, Factory Sealed items direct from the Studios. 30 Day Satisfaction Guarantee. Quick International Airmail!
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| Tracks:
| • | Seasons Apart | | • | When I Wake | | • | Earthbound | | • | Not Breathing | | • | The Failure Epiphany | | • | Morphine Cloud | | • | Bloodflower | | • | The Empty Stare | | • | September Ashes |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
The latest work from the Swedish masters of doom is both tragic and beautiful, and filled with songs of longing and drama. Only Draconian is able to so skillfully follow romantic passages and wonderful female vocal arrangements with the tuned-down walls of darkish riffs and violent vocal passages or even compose dreamy melodies fit for an eternity, only to forcefully tear them down. A beguiling yet heavy fusion of Doom and Gothic Metal.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 the most beautiful color, black June 22, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
For those unfamiliar with their style, Draconian specialize in relentless metal riffs driven by a pair of guitars and led by the growls of Anders Jakobsson, but superbly followed by the slow, orchestral serenades of Lisa Johansson. Their music isn't quite as complex as that of Theatre of Tragedy (of Velvet Darkness days), nor as diverse as that of Tristania (beyond the veil days) but the overall effect is quite similar: mesmeric, inspiring, dark, beautiful music.
In Seasons Apart, it's business as usual for the band. There are no departures from the style which brought them success; however, they have concocted several pieces of amazing music on this album. Earthbound and Morphine Could stand out for me in particular.. the right balance between driving percussions, ripping guitars and airy melodies is achieved and the roles of the two vocalists are superbly cast.
Despite the pervasive lyrical themes centering on insanity, suicide and death (as is appropriate in doom metal), the feeling I get when listening to this album is not one of despair. My brain hears the words.. [in Earthbound: "Would you help me slit my wrists? Would you help me... DIE!!!!"] but my mind is processing the music behind it and reveling in its glorious melodies and not caring about what are much more than suicidal overtones. If you are prone to depression, or like happy music, maybe this album is not for you. But if you are enraptured by dark, beautiful melodies and the variety between growls and female vocals, this is the album for you!
 Majestic and Marvelous May 17, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is by far the best goth-doom-metal album I have bought this year. I have listened to it over and over again and I never get tired of it. If you like Opeth, I think you will dig Draconian!
what could have been April 21, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
add Seasons Apart and Earthbound to your cart and checkout for under $2. skip the rest no other tracks are worth the price difference. the entire album fell just short of grandeur by spoken words. The Failure Epiphany a potentially great song with a phenomenal bass riff ruined by spoken lyrics and again with Bloodflower.
Perfect April 20, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Worth every penny (must purchase since the promos floating around have monologue spoken through the songs)
Draconian gets better! April 6, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love all the Draconian albums but this is polished, very atmospheric, beautiful, wonderful gothic doom metal. One of the best in the genre. Way better than most out there. That is all.
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