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

From childhood's hour I have not been as others were - I have not
seen as others saw - I could not bring my passions from a comon spring.
From the same source I have not taken my sorrow;
I could not awaken my heart to joy at the same tone.
And all I lov'd I lov'd alone. Then - in my childhood - in the dawn of a most stormy life
was drawn from every depth of good and ill the mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain, from the red cliff of the mountain,
from the sun that `round me roll'd in it's autumn tint of gold
from the lightning in the sky as it pass'd me flying by
from the thunder and the storm, and the cloud that took the form
(when the rest of heaven was blue) of a demon in my view.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Alone
• Darkwave

[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...

[Gherann]

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

[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.

[Gandalf930]

@Heavymetalgamer28

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

[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

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'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

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

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

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

[Heavymetalgamer28]

@Gandalf930

I love both versions, and both bands. :P 

[Gandalf930]

@MightyGarogh

Totally agreed.