The Pale Haunt Departure

The Pale Haunt Departure

Editorial Reviews
Unrestrained Magazine
"This band has an incredible back catalog and they seem unstoppable right now."

Product Description
A combination of power and beauty forges a dark metal masterpiece. Novembers Doom have been honing their craft for years, and 'The Pale Haunt Departure' sees the band sharpening their approach to its most convincing point thus far. "A thunderous gallop of darkened visions and metallic surges culminate into a glorious treasure trove of transcendence" - Unrestrained! "WOW! This is pure art!! This is a top notch record and if you're looking for something dark & heavy, it's a blind buy and you won't be dissapointed!" - The Darkest Hours

The Pale Haunt Departure,Novembers Doom,The End Records,British Metal,Doom Metal,Heavy Metal,Pop,Rock,Symphonic Black Metal,United States of America

Average customer rating:

doomy, heavy but still keeping melody and good songs

Wait..this is a joke right? Oh, it isn't?.......

A Nice Dark Piece of Metal...

Amazingly emotional and honest album! It's magnificent!

Pretty good, but no where close to the rave reviews already given. 3.5 Stars

The Pale Haunt Departure
Novembers Doom
Manufacturer: The End Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rock | Styles | Music
British Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
Death Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B0007NBAEK
Release Date: 2005-03-08

Tracks:

The Pale Haunt Departure
Swallowed By The Moon
Autumn Reflection
Dark World Burden
In The Absence Of Grace
The Dead Leaf Echo
Through A Child's Eyes
Collapse Of The Fallen Throe

Album Description

A combination of power and beauty forges a dark metal masterpiece. Novembers Doom have been honing their craft for years, and 'The Pale Haunt Departure' sees the band sharpening their approach to its most convincing point thus far. "A thunderous gallop of darkened visions and metallic surges culminate into a glorious treasure trove of transcendence" - Unrestrained! "WOW! This is pure art!! This is a top notch record and if you're looking for something dark & heavy, it's a blind buy and you won't be dissapointed!" - The Darkest Hours

Album Description

The End. 2005.

Customer Reviews:

doomy, heavy but still keeping melody and good songs.......2006-10-18

It is all too easy to simply liken one band to another and call it a review. Although, when i listen to this album it reminds me of some opeths songs. The vocals remind me of opeths song "demon of the fall." they are death vocals, but are controlled rather then screames, and the lyrics are detectable.
This album is mainly slow and heavy, but retainig the melody that saves it from sounding like lesser death/doom metal bands.
There is breaks in the heavines though with atmospheric acoustic passages and clean vocals.
This album is eerie, lots or reverb, slow marching tom tom, acoustic guitars and deep clean vocals contrasted with death vox. The lyrics are typically doomy but do not come across as bedroom poetry as is often the case in doom

To characterize this album i would say that it is doomy and deathy, but is contrasted with atmospheric and eerie songs and passages. It contains the odd bit of double pedals, and even an acoustic (well - clean anyway)track. This is a subtle album, it has melody but is not necessarily catchy and it is heavy but this does not disguise the subtleties of the guitarists and the vocals.They write good, not obvious song structures, which i give them respect for.

in short, there is nothing necessarily bad about about this album - though it is not stunning either. If you like opethy death, or doom you will like this album and it is worth hearing - it is subtle and required several listens.

i appreciate this review is rather general and does not really look at individual tracks, but it is one of those albums which is more about mood and the album as a whole then individual parts.

wprth having if you like

my dying bride
opeth
katatonia
....all the usual doom/death suspects

thankyou

Wait..this is a joke right? Oh, it isn't?..............2006-09-23

I can't believe that people are comparing Novembers Doom to Opeth. To put them both in the same sentence is heresy in its most profane, I feel bad even putting both their names in this same sentence.
First of all, Opeth are far more talented and craft epics that shatter and defy what we know of modern music, not to mention their contribution to the re-defining of Death Metal/Melodic/Doom.
Novembers Doom are average at best, there is NO stellar musicianship or amazing epic songs on this album, or any other Novembers Doom albums I have heard.
The Pale Haunt Departure has its moments, though far and few between. Every song is marred with the horrid singing and cheesy Doom talking of the singer. Seriously, his singing SUCKS! His screams are decent though, and you can hear his lyrics(which suck and repeat about the same concepts through the whole album ie..not being good enough, is there a tomorrow, blah blah blah), but he sounds like a cheap immitation of the Amon Amarth vocalist.
I will admit some of their guitar riffs are pretty good, but they repeat the same parts over and over, as if they could not conjure up decent change ups and variations, and besides a few gems mostly sounds boring. The drummer sometimes sounds like he just started drumming, he uses his snare drum way too much and doesn't seem to know how to use it. There are a few decent drum parts, but nothing spectacular. There is virtually no bass at all, heard once in a while, when you can hear it, its average.
But overall, the song structure and dynamics are horrible and poorly put together. I don't see why everyone praises these guys. Maybe I just don't get the whole Doom Metal genre and its fans, but this album is weak weak weak.
I agree with the reviewer who stated that the intros are the best parts of the album, but after you get past 30 seconds of each song, the song turns into garbage.
People are so willing to give out 5 stars to every album. The Pale Haunt Departure is not worth 5 stars at all, more like 2.
The Pale Haunt Departure makes me realize that anyone can make an album and get signed to a label.

A Nice Dark Piece of Metal..........2006-07-21

This album is very dark with a feeling of despair to it, which it should because they're a doom metal band. This album is aptly titled because from the very first track one word that could be used to describe it is "Haunting." The disc starts of with a nice tribal beat then goes into a death metal song and from there you are just left with chills. I really like the lead singer's voice because not only does do the clean vocals fit the music well but his growls are deep, angry but you can mostly understand what he is saying. Most would think that would make the music sound less heavy but that is not the case at all. There are slow ballad like songs on the album as well, like Autumn Reflection which sound great and add to the melancholy feel of the album. A lot of the songs on the album have a groove to them that makes you want to bang your head, which you will believe me. Novembers Doom have crafted one great Death/Doom metal album that should not go unheard. Stand out tracks: The Pale Haunt Departure, Swallowed by the Moon, Dark World Burden.

Amazingly emotional and honest album! It's magnificent!.......2006-05-21

Normally, I give new albums about 5 or 6 listens before I make any judgement and think about writing a review. For obvious reasons, this gives some of the less accessible albums time to get under my skin and reveal their treasures. Occasionally, I feel I could review an album after first listen, due to an album being either very obviously irredeemably terrible, or if an album has an immediate impact on me due to quality and personal taste. Novembers Doom fits into the latter category. I knew during the first listen exactly what this album was all about and that I completely loved it within a few minutes. I have listened to it constantly since then, but my opinion hasn't changed one bit.

There's something very emotionally raw about Novembers Doom's music. You always have the feeling that these guys use their albums as an outlet for their most intimate passions and emotions. At times, I find myself feeling almost uncomfortable at being present during the unleashing of built up sorrow and anger, but I always find it to be a more satisfying experience due to the legitimate impression I'm left with. Novembers Doom have always been a consistently good doom/death band (comparisons can be made to legends My Dying Bride), but this is far and away their greatest achievement, and one that I'm certain will be thought of with the highest regard by those into the more depressive side of metal.

The production is near perfect for this type of music, with each instrument getting the clarity and power necessary. I really love the guitar sound they've managed here, much better than on previous releases from the band. Also of particular note is the improvement in the vocal department. Whether it be sorrowful clean vocals or roaring cries of anguish, this is all first rate, and filled with the above-mentioned emotion that is so necessary for lyrics of despair such as these. I really can't find anything particularly bad about the album, but I am aware that the massive standard set by both "Autumn Reflection" and "Collapse of the Falling Throe" at the top is not quite matched throughout the remaining tracks. There are certainly no fillers at all on "The Pale Haunt Departure" and I'm certain it will be right up there with Primordial's latest in my top 10 at the end of the year. This, along with Draconian's "Arcane Rain Fell" have made 2005 a great year for doom already.

Pretty good, but no where close to the rave reviews already given. 3.5 Stars.......2006-04-10

I bought this album with unrealistically high expectations. I mean, Amazon has it bundled with Ghost Reveries by Opeth for gods sake, and all the other reviewers also compared it to that greatest of all black metal bands. So the CD shows up, I pop it in the computer, turn the volume to max, and start listening. The beginning of the first song captivated me right away. Semi-creepy symphonic stuff building up with a drum beat letting me know something insane METAL is about to occur - and this is where the flop occurs. All of the album's tracks have excellent intros that make it seem like the rest of the song will be great - but they aren't. Every song is downhill after the first 30 - 45 seconds. They just plod along boringly and with no hint of the flavor shown at the start of the track. The songs are solid, and certainly tolerable, but I have a hard time listening to them now because they are such a let down after the almost perfect intros.

If Novembers Doom had just somehow continued to incorporate the themes of each intro throughout the entire track, and hadn't made each and every song repititve and boring after the first half minute - this honestly could have been one of the top 10 albums of all time (the intros are truly that great). The vocalist for November's Doom has a suprisingly clear and understandable death metal growl, but unfortunately he doesn't seem to have a very wide range - it all stays pretty consistently the exact same throughout the entire album. The clean vocals here vary between laughably silly and really good. Towards the beginning of the second track "Swallowed By The Moon", there is some clean talking, rather than actual melodic singing, and it's black metal cheese at it's worst - but the clean singing during the rest of the track is suprisingly good. All the acoustic parts of the album are good, with lots of variety. The only exception would be in the song "Through A Child's Eyes". Great acoustic song on it's own, but they definetely should have left out the background sounds of a baby gurgling or laughing or whatever, which seems completely out of place on an otherwise heavy album.

As far as the comparisons to Opeth go - No. Absolutely No. Maybe in a few albums when they've had time to refine their sound and the vocalist has expanded his range considerably, then yes, they could compare to Opeth. As it stands, Novembers Doom is decent, but nothing to burn a church over.

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