Farmakon

Farmakon
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 666616015625
EAN: 0666616015625
ASIN: B00009MVIF


Release Date: 2003-05-01

Farmakon


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Tracks:

  1. The Raven and the Backward Funeral
  2. Shred of Light, Pinch of Endless
  3. Farmakon Process
  4. ...
  5. Nowhere
  6. Nothing

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  5. Subconscious Dissolution into the Continuum

Album Description

Ambient Funeral Doom Metal... Skepticism re-introduces funeral doom through plodding drums, detuned guitars, and medieval keyboards, resulting in a compositional masterpiece. Farmakon is neo-classical melancholy forged with chthonic sludge... <P>Huge enveloping chords emanate from Farmakon's core with a radiant astral beauty, akin to huge waves crashing on the shores of your consciousness. <P>Don't be fooled by the short track listing, this is a full length album, and a harrowing journey through the depths of sorrow and degradation.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Depression... darkness... depression..........2005-11-09

Skepticism play a variant of the doom metal genre* called ¨funeral doom¨ or ¨opressive doom¨ Voices coming from nowhere, haunting whispers, slowness, weird grunts, and anguish are characteristic in this record. You're going to experiment a lot of feelling while you're listening to the album, and that's the idea behind this particular genre: the sensorial experience thru the music.

I also have to say that the concept of solitude, depression and bitterness has been worked not only in the music but in the graphic design of the album. Check the CD cover and you'll see... nothing.

*Doom metal can be divided into this main categories (just for organization):
- Proto doom: Black Sabbath
- Traditional doom: Candlemass
- Death doom: dISEMOBWELMENT
- Funeral doom: Shape of despair
- Melodic doom: The 3rd and the Mortal
- Symphonic doom: Lacrimas profundere
- Stoner doom: High on fire

5 out of 5 stars

Music Album:

  1. Flaming Star/Wild in the Country/Follow That Dream ~ Elvis Presley
  2. Best ~ Limp Bizkit
  3. Original Masters: Best of the Godfathers ~ The Godfathers
  4. Ignition ~ John Waite
  5. Glow ~ Reef
  6. The Master Hits: Thompson Twins ~ Thompson Twins
  7. Unearthed ~ Billy Currie
  8. Local Angel ~ Brant Bjork
  9. Long Wires in Dark Museums Volume 1 (North Island) ~ Galbraith , and De Gennaro
  10. Highlights: The Best of Nektar ~ Nektar

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

Keur Moussa: Sacred Chant & African Rhythms from Senegal ~ Monks of Keur Moussa Abbey

Radio Years, Vol. 1, 1938 ~ Artie Shaw

Hawthorne Nights ~ Zoot Sims

World of Dixieland, Vol. 2 ~ Various Artists

You're Me ~ Tommy Flanagan & Red Mitchell

Ain't Misbehavin' ~ Hank Jones

Souz 35 ~ Various Artists

IN THE WOODS

Human Roots ~ Molmott

Best Kinouchi Midori ~ Midori Kinouchi