2005 - Season Of Mist
1. For Marchosias
2. To Alloces
3. Gateway to Silence
4. The Visitors
5. Eibon
6. To Gremory
7. Spellbound
8. The Swordwraith (Unbroken Vow II)
9. (You Are) The Gleaming King
Total running time : 47:42
Kai na loipon to deutero album ton Order of The Ebon Hand, molis 7 (efta) xronia meta to proto album tous "Mystic Paths To The Netherworld".
De gnorizo tous logous pou katestisan to group anenergo gia tosa xronia,alla i anamoni ton piston opadon (?) tou tote "pio elpidoforou ellinikou black metal sximatos" sigoura dikaiothike kai me to parapano.
To album auto loipon fysika kai de synexizei apo kei pou stamatise to katapliktiko men,monolithiko kai monodiastato de,melodiko black ntempouto,alla proxoraei se kati pio sygxrono. Ekmetalleuomenos sto epakro a/ta polla xronia enasxolisis tou me to sygkekrimeno ixo kai b/ tis kales tou gnorimies, o Merkaal (Nocternity) xtizei kommati kommati ena paneksypno,polydiastato kai polypoikilo blackmetal oikodomima. To aplo,pasifanws elliniko (alla entelos porotiko kai aksiologo) black tou parelthontos dinei ti thesi tou se ena apolyta sofistike kai KYRILE ixo,dianthismeno me skoteines enorxistroseis (xristos antoniou), kleistofovika samples, kataigistika blastbeats alla kai polla chill out simeia,ola servirismena mesa apo mia mounti,ogkodi paragogi.kai me to avantaz pou dinei i tampela tis season of mist fysika.
Syntomi perigrafi ton tragoudion - aksizei.
To album anoigoun 2 piasarika thoryvodi kai tautoxrona melodika tragoudakia,ta opoia parapempoun se emperor epoxis eclipse (stis kithares) kai anthems (sta pliktra).Akolouthei ena peiramatiko makroskeles epos me polla atmosferika samples kai ena apisteuto xevimetal riff/break to opoio kataligei se orgio gia na epanalifthei ksana i proigoumeni enallagi.To epomeno tragoudi (the visitors) tha mporouse na parei ti thesi tou anamesa sta epi tou de mysteriis,kyriws logw ton fonitikon,ta opoia prokaloun aneta zilia-psora akoma kai ston attila.Allo ena argosyrto -alla mikro se diarkeia- xevimetalizon kommati leitourgei os interludio gia na akolouthisei i black kataigida tou "to gremory" (me typika "greek black" pliktra).Sti synexeia mia diaskeui sto spellbound tis sympathestatis siouxsie dikaiologei en merei ton xaraktirismo "kyrile" pou edosa proigoumenws.Allo ena black epos (the swordwraith) kai ftanoume sto teleutaio kommati tou album,to opoio kosmei ena panemorfo solo tou sotiri vagena,enw to idio to tragoudi parapempei emfanws se septic flesh stin arxi kai sta melodika kapsourotragouda tou incipit satan sti synexeia.
Ta fonitika tou merkaal -psyxra kai apokosma edo,theatrika kai kleistofovika pio pera- kai ta asyllipta tympana tou kapranou (an einai pragmatika tympana) apoteloun highlights tou olou ponimatos. Tragoudia den mporo na ksexoriso (ektos apo to proto pou me kollise ston toixo kathws evala anypopsiastos to album),kathws einai ola se poly poly ypsilo epipedo. I seira pou einai topothetimena sto album einai sigoura kala meletimeni,afou to kanoun na kylaei poly euxarista,xoris ixnos koilias.An tha prepe na paratheso kapoio album os simeio anaforas,tha lega to kainourio ton anaal nathrakh,oxi toso logo yfous,alla logo atmosferas,feeling,doulemenon sto epakro syntheseon kai kalou riffing.
To elliniko black fonazei "eimai ok " kai me groups opos oi end,oi nocternity,oi ravencult kai oi order of the ebon hand,oxi mono den exei na zilepsei tpt apo tis kainouries skines (galliki,finlandiki,amerikaniki,souidiki), alla -me dedomeni analogi synexeia- mporei na perifaneuetai oti tis xynei sti mouri (dystyxos mono oson afora tin poiotita,alla oxi tin posotita)
Autoi pou skeftontai na ependysoun,as to kanoun afova.