Empyrium – A Wintersunset… (Vinyl, Gold) Label: Prophecy Productions – PRO 001 LPG Format: Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition, Reissue, Gold Country:Germany Released: 11 Mar 2020 Style: Folk Metal
The debut album by Empyrium
With its gloomy and epic Dark Metal, Empyrium’s first release isn’t only the groundwork of Schwadorf’s further musical creativity. «A Wintersunset …» was also the starting signal for the label Prophecy Productions, as the name «Prophecy» had previously just been in use for a mail-order.
Tracklist: 1. Moonromanticism 2. Under Dreamskies 3. The Franconian Woods In Winter’s Silence 4. The Yearning 5. Autumn Grey Views 6. Ordain’d To Thee 7. A Gentle Grieving Farewell Kiss
Empyrium – The Turn Of The Tides (Vinyl, LP) Label: Prophecy Productions – PRO 154LP Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Germany Released: 2014 Style: Black Metal, Neofolk
With their fifth album, Empyrium embark on a new creative phase
Twelve years after their last studio effort «Weiland», Empyrium – the masters of natural ambiances set to music – return with a much-anticipated new album. Notwithstanding their creative break, «The Turn Of The Tides» is an Empyrium-album par excellence, although it bears strong testimony to the artistic and personal growth Schwadorf and Helm have undergone since 2002. The pre-published songs «The Days Before The Fall» (from the compilation «Whom The Moon A Nightsong Sings», 2010) and «Dead Winter Ways (released in November 2013 as a limited vinyl-EP) have already implied that for their new material, Empyrium draw on different forms of musical expression more confidently than ever, yet do not shy away from the wide range their oeuvre has offered so far. Concurrently with the music, the conceptional aspect of «The Turn Of The Tides» attests to a mature and evolved elaboration on Empyrium’s essence. Nature and human emotion as reflected in it still remain subject matter of the songs, but here, too, Helm and Schwadorf choose a more abstract approach. «The Turn Of The Tides» adresses cycles, both within nature – the tides of the sea, the change of seasons, the eternal circulation of water – as well as human life, and insinuates how everything rediscovers itself in everything.
1. Saviour 2. Dead Winter Ways 3. In The Gutter Of This Spring 4. The Days Before The Fall 5. We Are Alone 6. With The Current Into Grey 7. The Turn Of The Tides
Empyrium – Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields (Vinyl, LP, Orange) Label: Prophecy Productions – PRO 007 LPC-1 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue Country: Germany Released: 2022 Style: Black Metal, Doom Metal
A masterpiece of monumental and bombastic Dark Romantic Metal
With «Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields» (1997), Schwadorf perfected his dark Metal full of classical Romanticism and traditional folklore. The album relates back to the band’s debut «A Wintersunset …», but also delivers the blue-print for their later development into more tranquil folk sceneries.
