Dark Is the Season

1. Foetus Noose

2. Forged in Fire

3. Dark Is the Season

4. Jumping at Shadows

5. Experimental Stage [#]

Dark Is the Season,Benediction,Nuclear Blast Americ,Death Metal/Black Metal,Heavy Metal,Pop,Popular Music,Rock,Thrash

Average customer rating: A really long EP with different versions of prior songs and covers Most Impressive Benediction release Pure a#s kicking grind metal! Just a very good one.

Dark Is the Season Benediction Manufacturer: Nuclear Blast Americ ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Death Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Thrash & Speed Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Oldies | Pop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Grotesque Ashen Epitaph Dreams You Dread ASIN: B000000GZH Release Date: 1992-10-13

Tracks:

1. Foetus Noose
2. Forged In Fire
3. Dark Is The Season
4. Jumping At Shadows
5. Experimental Stage

Customer Reviews:

A really long EP with different versions of prior songs and covers.......2007-06-20

This is a long EP but here is an offering by the band between "The Grand Leveller" and "Transcend the Rubicon". The band at this point still seems to be struggling with album production (this one happens to be mega treble heavy with little mid-range) but the production here is better than the first album. The slow song "Dark is the Season" is long but has many parts to it and doesn't get boring. Both "Jumping at the Shadows" and "Experimental Stage" are different recordings of songs from prior albums (The Grand Leveller and Subconscious Terror). The cover songs are good too.

Even though several of the reviews below have listed the vocalist as Barney Greenway, Dave Ingram is the vocalist here and on every Benediction release except "Subconscious Terror" and the newest "Organised Chaos".

Recommended album if you have the money to throw down on this and have all the other worthy full length Benediction albums of this era.

Most Impressive Benediction release.......2004-09-08

Dark is the Season. This is the release I would recommend to anybody unfamiliar with Benediction. First off, this is only a 25 minute EP. 2 songs are new, 1 cover and 2 studio tracks. "Forged in Fire" is an Anvil cover song and is performed superbly here. I think this is the best powermetal song ever covered by a Deathmetal band. Very heavy crushing guitar sound and excellent vocals by Barney. The standout song however is the title track "Dark is the Season". This song shows Benediction at their best. Check out the amazing, stoned out acoustic guitar outro during the last 2 minutes or so of the song. Reminds me of "Fluff" from Sabbath. This alone makes the CD worth buying!!! The album artwork is also totally killer. If you like old Entombed, Obituary, Celtic Frost, Sabbath you must get this CD! This is Benediction's best release by far

Pure a#s kicking grind metal!.......2004-01-16

Not for the faint of heart, and not for Blink 182 fans (who should pull the di*ks out of their mouths and jump of a g*#ddamn bridge). This is pure, unsaturated honist to the bone f@*king metal. Barney Greenway kicks a*s in his vocals, and check out the soloing on Forged In Fire, simple but very powerfull. Buy it, you'll love it!

Just a very good one........2000-03-30

I must admit...i did not know this band. I've heard this for the first time in the recordstore from a friend of mine. I've bought it then....and never had any regrets buying it.

Average customer rating:

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1. Work-Song 'O, Let Me Sing' - Chor Of The Village Of Suzemka
2. Play-Song 'My Husband Has Gone A- Tilling' - Chor Of The Village Of Kevrola
3. Mordvine 'Takmak' Song - Mordvine-Karatai Chor
4. Song Of The Kuban Cossacks 'Our Caucasian General' - Cossack Folk Music Ens From The Stanitsa Kubanskaya
5. 'The Brooms' - Sveshnikov Russian Academic Chor/Evgeny Tytianko
6. I Have A Goldfish - Sveshnikov Russian Academic Chor/Evgeny Tytianko
7. Kant Of The 18th Century 'Why, Dark Nights?' - Moscow Chm Choral Theatre/Boris Pevzner
8. The Scarlet Sarafan - Sveshnikov Russian Academic Chor/Evgeny Tytianko
9. Vast Steppe - Sveshnikov Russian Academic Chor/Evgeny Tytianko
10. Venice By Night - Rybin Chor/Valery Rybine
11. 'Le Prince Igor': The Villagers' Chor - Chor Of The Moscow Bolshoi Theatre/Stanislav Lykov
12. 'Eugene Oneguine': Chor Of The Young Girls - Chor Of The Moscow Bolshoi Theatre/Stanislav Lykov
13. 'May Night': The Round Of The Millet - Sveshnikov Russian Academic Chor/Evgeny Tytianko
14. 'May Night': Song About The Mayor - Sveshnikov Russian Academic Chor/Evgeny Tytianko
15. 'Christmas Eve': Koliada And Christmas Chor - Yurlov Academic Chor/Stanislav Goussev
16. 'A Life For The Tsar': Final Chor - Chor Of The Moscow Bolshoi Theatre/Stanislav Lykov
17. 'La Khovantchina': Scene Of The Streltsy From The 3rd Act - Chor Of The Moscow Bolshoi Theatre/Stanislav Lykov
18. 'La Khovantchina': Scene With Ivan Khovanski - Chor Of The Moscow Bolshoi Theatre/Stanislav Lykov
19. 'In The Sanctuary Of A Golden Dream': A Life That Is Spent In The Chor - Natalia Guerassimova
20. 'Medee': Final Chor - The New Moscow Chor/Elena Rastvorova
21. 'Legendes Des Eux Souterraines': Final Chor - The New Moscow Chor/Elena Rastvorova

Tracks:

1. Ave Maria (Chant Znamenny) - Vladimir Miller
2. Prophecy Of Ezekiel - Pere Mikhail Fortunato
3. Lesson From The Gospel According To Saint John - Pere Andrei Papkov
4. Since My Youth - Men's Chor/Valery Rybine
5. Song To The Holy Virgin - Men's Chor/Valery Rybine
6. Trisagion - Sirin Chor/Andrei Kotov
7. Magnificat - Sirin Chor/Andrei Kotov
8. To The Mother Of God - Sirin Chor/Andrei Kotov
9. It Is Worthy In Truth - Men's Chor 'Drevnerousski Rospev'/Anatoly Grindenko
10. In Thee All Creatures Rejoice - Men's Chor 'Drevnerousski Rospev'/Anatoly Grindenko
11. I Was The Youngest - Moscow Chm Choral Theatre/Boris Pevzner
12. Glorious Miracle - Men's Chor 'Drevnerousski Rospev'/Anatoly Grindenko
13. At Thy Mystic Supper - The Ural Chor/Vladislav Novik
14. The Resurrection - The Ural Chor/Vladislav Novik
15. It Is Worthy Praise Thee - Children's Chor Of The Bolshoi Theatre/Andrei Zaboronok
16. The Angel Claimed - Boys And Men's Chor Of The Moscow Choral Academy/Viktor Popov
17. Augmented Litany From The Orthodox Requiem - The Ural Chor/Vladislav Novik/Dimitri Chardakov
18. God, Save Thy People - Men's Chor/Valery Rybine/Vladimir Matorine
19. Appeal Of The Patriarch Hermogenes To The Insurgents In 1609 - Men's Chor/Valery Rybine/Vladimir Sourjenko
20. Bless The Lord, My Soul - The Saint Petersburg Cappella/Vladislav Tchernouchenko
21. Since My Youth - Men's Chor/Valery Rybine/Vladimir Silaiev
22. Hexapsaume - The Ural Chor/Vladislav Novik/Ludmila Nepritvornaia/Tatiana Chalimova/Alexandre Khoroujev
23. Communion Chant - The Ural Chor/Vladislav Novik
24. For The Taking Of The Veil - Men's Chor/Valery Rybine
25. Excerpt From Saint Matthews - Men's Chor/Valery Rybine

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1. Antonida's Romance: Act Three: 'A Life For the Tsar' - Viktoria Loukianets
2. Snegurotchka's Arietta: Prologue: 'The Snow Maiden' - Viktoria Loukianets
3. The Cycle 'Five Songs On Poems' By Anna Akhmatova: 'True Tenderness' - Natalia Guerassimova/Vladimir Skanavi
4. The Cycle 'Five Songs On Poems' By Anna Akhmatova: 'Good Morning' - Natalia Guerassimova/Vladimir Skanavi
5. The Cycle 'Seven Songs On Poems' By A. Blok: 'The Storm' - Natalia Guerassimova
6. 'Judith', Act 2: Aria - Irina Oudalova
7. 'The Maid Of Orleans', Act 1: Aria - Nina Terentieva
8. 'The Snow Maiden', Act 3: Third Song - Nina Terentieva
9. 'Christmas Eve', Tableau Three: Vakoula's Song - Vladimir Bogatchev
10. The Distiller's Tale: 'May Night' - Alexandre Arkhipov
11. Darling Savichna - Serguei Yakovenko/Ilya Scheps
12. The Orphan - Serguei Yakovenko/Ilya Scheps
13. The He-Goat - Serguei Yakovenko/Ilya Scheps
14. Mephisto's Song ('The Flea') - Serguei Yakovenko/Ilya Scheps
15. 'The Tsar's Bride', Act 1: Monologue - Vladislav Verestnikov
16. 'The Demon', Tableau Four: Aria - Anatoly Safiouline
17. 'The Khovanshchina', Act Three: Aria - Anatoly Safiouline
18. 'Boris Godounov': Monologue - Piotr Glouboky
19. Travelling Song - Piotr Glouboky/Ilya Scheps
20. Song Of The Dark Forest - Piotr Glouboky/Ilya Scheps
21. 'The Canterville Ghost': The Ghost's First Monologue - Stanislav Souleimanov

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