Surprises 2008: In Mourning - Shrouded Divine

In the last one of my "surprises 2008" I will talk about one of the best discoverings of 2008. The great album of In Mourning, a swedish band that started making a slowlier music in those early demos than in the debut album. That gothic metal became a gothic-doom-melodeath in Shrouded Divine, a majestic album that inmediately set In Mourning as one of the best bands in 2008. With a palpable progressive touch and very origininal environment, clean and mostly harsh vocals and delicate and atmospheric melodies sometimes and melodeath catchy riffs other times, Shrouded Divine is probably my personal best discovering in 2008, and shouldnt pass over any open minded metal fan (even no-metal fan), due to the wide of their offer, the lots of genres they are touching and becoming solid under the same.

1.	The Shrouded Divine	07:11
2.	Amnesia	03:35
3.	In The Failing Hour	04:22
4.	By Others Considered	06:24
5.	Grind Denial	04:28
6.	The Art Of A Mourning Kind	05:29
7.	The Black Lodge	08:13
8.	Past October Skies	06:33

In Mourning - Shrouded Divine

Ill & preparing trip

Last days I'm becoming more ill, and today I really had to stay in bed and probably tomorrow as well. Nothing serious but some virus (more people were telling me they are or were ill last weekend) or got cold. I'm just feeling dizzy and coughing from time to time.
Last weekend was an unproductive one. I went to my hometown and did nothing but watching movies, and I'm recently working more in my movies' blog in spanish than in here. I feel tired to talk with people and just want to stay in bed so you will know few about me in the next 2 weeks, I will go on with blog stuff of course but forget about social webs or msn chats.
I'm also attending to a wedding next saturday in Sevilla, the very south. It will be 1 week trip so I'm returning on wednesday evening, I suppose. Don't worry about pics with smart dressing, I will place some here :P I know, unbeliavable sight hehe... so tomorrow I will have a shaving, my beard is quite a viking chaotic one, and I'm not allowed to go like that XD
There are 2 more posts that I will place here before my leaving, tomorrow and thursday at 00:00 so enjoy them, and see u later ;)

Entroido 2009

Entroido or Carnaval or Carnival... I dont like too much to disguise in this party (it's more interesting when YOU are the ONLY one dressing hihii hhhhh ;) ). Here in Galicia this is a famous party, though in big cities people are not that party people as in the most famous little towns in Ourense, where all the population of those villages like Xinzo de Limia, Verín or Laza, are attending and enjoying in a traditional way this pagan celebration.
Well, coming back to Vigo, I will just post some pics of this party here, most of them with the rest of the erasmus. I didnt actually dressed, so I asked to my dear Karolina if she could make what I was thinking.. and she totally read my mind :D

Surprises 2008: Martriden - The Unsettling Dark

Martriden is a black/melodic death band from USA. They released their first album on 2008 after the well criticized EP in 2006. They have very melodic parts but also very brutal with powerful drums and blast-beats, production is great and voice is mostly black metal oriented. Riffs goes mostly from melodeath rythms to fast black metal tremolos, though they are not so varied or original sometimes. Some acoustic guitars and effective background keyboards that appear in some moments make this album to have a nice different touch.
Anyway, The Unsettling Dark is a good debut album, another band to look forward future releases.

1.	Intro	00:40
2.	The Enigma of Fate	05:35
3.	The Calling	05:07
4.	Ascension Pt. 1	03:26
5.	Ascension Pt. 2	04:07
6.	Processional for the Hellfire Chariot	04:35
7.	The Unsettling Dark	06:15
8.	Prelude	05:15
9.	A Season in Hell	04:48
10.	Immaculate Perception	03:33

Martriden - The Unsettling Dark

Surprises 2008: This Haven - Today A Whisper, Tomorrow A Storm

This Haven is a swedish band that mixes from Hardcore to Stoner to Melodic Death to Deppresive Rock Riffs but in a very rock-heavy metal feeling with progressive way of composing. I know you are confused about howcome all this mix could work or maybe just could sound. It's difficult to explain "Today A Whisper, Tomorrow A Storm", but although being the first album of the band it really gives the impression of maturity.
Sound is perfect, and nothing to hesitate if I tell you the producer was Dan Swano, and performance is also great. Voice is clean but with an important Stoner/Jonas Renkse from Katatonia touch, and we can hear in a secondary scene sometimes acoustic guitars or keyboards, even in "Plague" a female voice.
It really is a complete album of hmm I will take the risk :P alternative progressive metal? I tried lol

1.	It's The End	04:42
2.	I Will Deceive	04:13
3.	Welcome To Delirium	04:47
4.	The Fallen	04:08
5.	Hero Of Your Hell	04:57
6.	Itch!	05:15
7.	Apocalyptical Anthem: I. B.C., II. A.D.	06:24
8.	And The Devil In Me Smiles	05:01
9.	Plague	07:07

This Haven - Hero of Your Hell (Live)

This Haven - Today A Whisper, Tomorrow A Storm