Beyond My Grey Wake

Beyond My Grey Wake Artist: How Like a Winter
Label: Martyr Music Group
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 672020004124
EAN: 0672020004124
ASIN: B00008NG9H


Release Date: 2003-03-04

Beyond My Grey Wake


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Tracks:

  1. A Flower That Sears In Silence
  2. All the Seasons Of Madness
  3. Laying Together Again
  4. Bescreen'd
  5. Who Is Hiding
  6. Crucifige
  7. XCVII
  8. The Night, Then Him
  9. So Death Would Be Just A Bad Dream

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Album Description

A potent blend of several musical genres spanning heavy metal, orchestral, doom, gothic and more. Four men and four women comprise HLAW with a variety of instrumentation (violins, piano, acoustic and electric guitar, male and female vocals-clean and aggro). Likened in their earlier stages to bands like My Dying Bride, Anathema and Moonspell, HLAW has come to a more mature place in their musical development and carved out a niche of melancholy and remembrance all their own.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Awesome..........2006-01-10

This album is awesome. It is a truly awesome first record. This has EVERY element of Doom known to man. All chopped and stitched back up in a near perfect way that makes you ask,"How could they top this?"

If Agalloch hadn't done that to me first, this album would have gotten five stars. Any fan of Doom should surely own this album.

The coolest thing about this album is definitely the drumming. Some of the off-time kick patterns are AWESOME. Why don't more band's do that? You can bet your last dollar that they will now.

They know how to record a doom album too. This record is so clean, so heavy it will knock you on your ass. Then so mellow, then so heavy. A good record and one band to look forward to hearing from again

5 out of 5 stars Find A Nearby Forest Trail and Listen.......2005-11-20

Beautiful, ethereal, full of despair and yet cryptically full of hope. Although labeled as doom metal, How Like A Winter has created an album that goes beyond mere metal. The music is beautifully constructed around a combination of death vocals, clean male vocals and female vocals. The music is adorned with stunning piano and orchestra-like arrangements giving it a classical feel. Although heavy at times the album is more of a low-key introspective album that is full of despair yet at the same time serves as inspiration. I frequently take walks on forest trails near my home and this album has been listened to the most on my IPOD. While walking placidly with nature, this album really takes you away for an hour to the point where I would call it self-therapy.

5 out of 5 stars Lengthy Music with Desolate Overtones.......2005-05-16

How Like a Winter receive their name from a Shakespeare sonnet and their lyrics are greatly influenced by him.

The CD starts out with A Flower That Sears in Silence which is a great doom laden song. Expressive growls by pianist/vocalist Dust start the song off as female voices chime in during the later parts of the song.

The next song, All the Seasons of Madness, which I believe to be the highlight of the album, is a lengthy song (7:57) that changes greatly throughout the entire piece. The song starts off with the band members chanting, "I hope into this morning..." and is then torn apart by growling. Slow passages soon embrace the listener and a violin comes in. The song is changed in tempo throughout the entire song, but goes back to its original lyrics and tone towards the end.

Laying Together Again starts off with a lengthy piano solo and clean male vocals come in towards the middle. The song's vocals are mostly chanted and create a desolate mood while female vocals offset the chorus.

Bescreen'd, is in vain of Shakespeare's balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet and is also a lengthy song (10:37), but unlike All the Seasons of Madness, it keeps its tempo consistent throughout the entire song. There is no growling in this song, only clean male vocals and the violin is heard here perhaps the most in any track.

Who is Hiding, is an instrumental piano solo reminiscent of romantic period composers. While it's their shortest song, it still has much to offer. Dust really showcases his piano skills in this track leaving the listener wishing the song would be longer.

Crucifige is one of the more faced paced songs on the album. It starts off with sounds of nails being hit onto a cross. Vocals are both growled and clean in this piece which adds variety, while female vocals are only heard to the end when reciting a passage from the bible with the male counterpart.

In XCVII, the band displays their love for Shakespeare by creating a song in which they get their name. Only the piano and violin are mostly heard throughout this song while the male vocals are more spoken than sung. The female voice takes hold after every quatrain (4 lines in a sonnet) in a quite operatic feel.

The Night, Then Him starts off with about a minute of abstract noises. Growling soon interrupts the beginning in which female voices sing amidst them. A short violin solo leads way to female singing in which then leads to more growling.

How Like a Winter end their album with an instrumental, So Death Would Be Just a Bad Dream. It's mostly a piano solo once again. Towards the end of the song, silence occurs for a couple of minutes and then the listener hears chanting to finish off the record.

All in all, HLAW is not for everyone. Many will be dismissed just from looking at their name. It should be noted, however, that HLAW's music is far from being clichéd. Many may argue the My Dying Bride influences, but they create music of their own leading the listener with a cold kiss in their heart.

5 out of 5 stars tears.......2005-05-03

I know I have been pushing it by listing some bands under the Gothic category simply by throwing in Gothic Metal, but you have to understand, through listening to the album, there are so many gothic atmosphere influences in the music. How Like A Winter is no exception. The music is that of Doom Metal, but let me say, it blends with a gothic melodic element. It has that certain symphony, and mind you, the music is very depressing. It is melancholic, beautiful and elegant. The voice in How Like A Winter is your typical Beauty and the Beast female/male vocals. The male vocal is very sombre and romantic, also very commanding. A standout song for me was "Bescreen'd," because when the vocals come alive, towards the middle of the song, it truly captures your attention. It commanderes your attention, making you listen to that all empowering Dracula depth voice. The passion in the male vocals is very deep, very literate and poetic. There is a life within the music itself, which makes it very attractive. The guitars are nothing too intense which cannot be listened to by the occasional metal ears. The elegance of this album lies in the fact that it's classical combined with doom combined with some elements of gothic atmosphere. Everything in sequence is beautiful, the strings make me want to tear up. No synthesizers here, all the music you hear are played by real musicians. Agony, the violinist, brings a deeper cut to the music. Recommended for anyone who listens to Theatre of Tragedy, Sirenia, and Virgin Black.

5 out of 5 stars Great Album.......2004-11-17

This is a great Gothic Doom Album. HLAW mixed clean female vocals with the male singers growls. I would have to say they don't go over the top with the shakespeare influence. They have this album "Beyond My Grey Wake" and "The Winter's Near."

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