Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows - Alone ♫•♫

[MightyGarogh]

Great poem... but no, i couldn't dig this song.

Definitely i'm staying with the Arcturus version.

[Gandalf930]

@MightyGarogh

Totally agreed.

[Heavymetalgamer28]

@Gandalf930

I love both versions, and both bands. :P 

[Gandalf930]

@Heavymetalgamer28

Well, took me a while to get into it, but now I actually like this one too :P

[Heavymetalgamer28]

@Gandalf930

Makes sense. Sopor is certainly something that, if you don't automatically like it, you really, really have to try to get into... but I can definitely see where a metal fan would like them.

[Gandalf930]

@Heavymetalgamer28

I think it was mostly because of the fact I was accustomed to the more fierce version as played by Arcturus and its own melody, and that's why at first I couldn't accept this one, possibly due to its effeminacy. But there are times when one needs something subtle and calm rather than ear-crushing, and that is where Sopor Aeternus comes in.

[Heavymetalgamer28]

@Gandalf930

i'm a metalhead myself, especially black metal and doom... but Sopor really did connect to me. Yeah, it's weird, and when I heard them, I was weirded out, but I thought it was amazing too. Their atmosphere can rival that of any funeral doom band.

[Gandalf930]

@Heavymetalgamer28

Hmm...I'd say it's just a differrent approach to the same thing. Generally I like to classify music by the mood rather than the genre, because eg. you can have a happy metal song and a sad folk song whereas you'd normally think the other way around. Sopor Aeternus is indeed a kind of doom metal without metal, so to speak... still, I wouldn't try to compare it to metal acts like, let's say, Abyssmal Sorrow or certain Deathspell Omega's(it's black not doom,but whatever) pieces.

[Heavymetalgamer28]

@Gandalf930

I do that, too... most music I like, metal or otherwise, tends to be dark, depressing, melancholic, or just plain scary to most people. Why? Because I have a dark side, like everyone, and I'm not afraid to embrace it. But I do so in a positive way, and not in a way that is harmful to others... and by the way, nobody would deny that there is happy metal or sad folk,they certainly exist

[Gandalf930]

@Heavymetalgamer28

I agree, sounds very close to my view on dark music.

[Heavymetalgamer28]

@Gandalf930

I think I'm just drawn to the extreme, forbidden and off-limits parts of life in general... Been like that since I was very young.

[Gherann]

I really love the part between 00:01  and 06:29

[LigeiaSleeper]

Alone...

[miyobi85]

my flave song ever^_^!

XoXo

[freakoffherleash300]

Can I Ask For More? The Mistress of Loneliness and the Master of Dark Literature, Sir Allan Poe together, allow me to have a most blissful orgasm...

[MightyGarogh]

@freakoffherleash300 lol