Eyes of Ligeia - A Fever Which Would Cling to Thee Forever
March 21 2008 at 01:01:34 AM
"Be silent in that solitude, which is not loneliness," consoles Poe at the approaching hour. "For then the spirits of the dead, who stood in life before thee, are again in death around thee, and their will shall overshadow thee; be still." Invoking the poet's own sullen ghost, Georgia's Eyes of Ligeia release from one knot into the next this intricate and obscurant album balancing the caricatures of author and genre. The group may allude to the older aesthetics of European doom metal but here all the "right" notes have disappeared, removing also the "right words.” Cancelled hopes sink into mystery among the rasps and web-line of the guitar, a theme that converges upon the economical display of Murnau and Doré. Re-acclimation follows. There are moments of doubt, hesitant entrances into sound as faded shapes appear within its patulous candelabra-esque tone. It has a greater ambience, unbound by verse or melodic satisfaction—which can be both a charm and a curse—but for now escalates the sense of discovery with a very tragic sense of weird.
[Todd DePalma]
Eyes of Ligiea
A Fever Which Would Cling to Thee Forever
2006
Paragon
http://www.paragonrecords.net
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