As a distraught 90's teen struggling with a serious case of undiagnosed chronic depression, this and "serenades" were my daily comfort, my lullaby, my blanket, my ice cream, my booze.
Many a lonely night was spent uncontrollingly sobbing while listening over and over to these, while reading aling with the lyrics to the bittersweet understanding that somewhere in this world, in faraway England, there was at least one other person who understood how I felt..
Those were crazy days.
Great that you hung in there man!! I also went through something similar. It was the band's later albums that helped me though I do love their early stuff.
Me too, i was delivered a diagnosis of asperger syndrome in 1997 which I thought would allow me to explain how i felt forever more but i was wrong. It was only my love of Metal, especially this kind, that has represented any kind of continuity in my life.
When this album came out in 1992, the wave of sad metal had just taken off. Close to Paradise Lost and My Dyind Bride, they formed the new kind of heavy British doom metal. A milestone at the time...
Sad metal?😅 this is death/doom, one of the finest examples. Cathedral's forest of equilibrium is another one.
@@user-qv3tc8jz8s this has nothing to do with funeral doom budy. Skepticism, pantheist, are good old examples of funeral doom metal.
Anathema, Katatonia, My dying bride, Paradise lost, Gathering.....
@@lady_draconius507 Have you heard their new one? I enjoyed it but not as much as Queen Of Time. Them and Opeth are my favourite two Scandinavian bands.
To były piękne czasy 🖤 szkoda ze juz tak nie grają 😭
Tak, ale nadal ciekawie i pięknie grają czcams.com/video/nSy0wExUWtw/video.html
welcome back to the early 90's... even today, i.e., 30 years later, I am still being blown away by this utterly reckless courage to sound as raw and genuine as one could ever get when elaborating on the very specific "musical and lyrical repertoire" of what doom metal is all about... says someone who has been there, watching them play (and share their suffering in front of 30-50 people) live on stage at several venues, long before anybody else would even notice that this band exists.
how is this almost thirty years old already... damn i still love it.
29yrs on this album is still banging
Had this on cassette when I was young.It was a split with the serenades album. Loved it, I repaired that cassette many times. I passed on the cassette to my oldest offspring. I want lovelorn rhapsody played at funeral.
I bought this Vinyl EP in 1993, and still made me cry. Great!!!!!!
Me too but year was -97. I think Peaceville did press them in thousands and in late 90's this kind of sad doom death wasnt the thing anymore.
That guitar lead on "The Sweet Suffering" at 6:53..... it's a mystery how something so poignant can heal the heart......
And i lust... for death. Masterpiece! 🖤🖤🖤I love all the sounds of Anathema, but I miss that old unique atmosphere 🖤🖤🖤
Anathema early stuff is so good.
1. ...and I Lust 05:48 Hide lyrics
Stately columns standing in solemn rows
Such empty honours are suitable for those
Whose death erases all renown and fame
And vanquishes their glory with their name
Wandering aimlessly through dead filled fields
Rewards are just, who knows what absence yields?
By the golden beauty of dusk
and the sun low in our sky
By the haunting shadows of trees
and graves, mesmerized am I.
Searching deep inside trying to reach my dreams
I see a face stare back at me... oh, so serene.
By the golden beauty of dusk
and the sun low in our sky
By the haunting shadows of trees
and graves, mesmerized am I.
Those whispering shades... sad, silent glades
But not for those whose superior worth
After death extols them to the earth
I would even venture to assume
That one need not build for them a tomb
By human art, since glory heaven sent
Serves them as a living monument
Pain is a far away land,
Misery, a lifetime's journey...
...and I lust for death (judgement).
2. The Sweet Suffering 06:42 Hide lyrics
As a shadow is cast overhead
I rejoice in the coming of the gloom
Lifting my eyes to view what, to me, is beauty
I decipher what is read in the cloud
The verse is shouting out and ringing in my ears
The claps of thunder, scared? No, me I revere
in the enchantment of mother nature
Her caress it soothes and brings me joy
Kneeling in the rainfall
Wind's whispers beckoning
Inhaling the sweet scent
Elation is overwhelming
The way is dim, but somehow I find it
One by one the victims of life are dwindling
Me, take me... grief no more if death will save me
Take me, save me, show me salvation
Lead me... a sacred path, reinstate creation
Show me joy, grief, pride
and show me your envy
The way is dim but somehow I find it.
3. Everwake 02:42 Hide lyrics
Somniferous whisperings of scarlet fields
Sleep calling me and my dreams are wondrous
My reality abandoned (I traverse afar)
Not a care if I never wake
4. Crestfallen 10:18 Hide lyrics
I cry a tear of hope but it is lost in helplessness
The darkness eats away at the very embers of my soul
For the deepest love I had has dissolved before my eyes
My sorrow is bleak, I beg for deliverance
Lord, in your mercy, hear my prayer
All emotion is consumed by an inner silence
All grief is unassuaged by disconsulate tears
I want for nothing, I live for nothing
I am waiting to die but I am afraid of dying
Lord, in your mercy, hear my prayer
Crestfallen emotion
Wallowing in guilt
and drowning for evermore
Falling deeper into fear
My inner self is now
a sleeper of stone
Help me.
5. They Die 08:00 Hide lyrics
All tears restrained for years
Their grief is confined
Which destroys my mind
An ode to their plight is this dirge
Some yearn for lugubrious silence
(It is the) serenity in the image of coffins
Shall life renew these bodies of a truth?
All death will he annul, all tears assuage?
Fill the void veins of life, again with youth
And wash with an immortal water, age
They die.
In 1993 first time I hear this album and still remain I feel extasy when I hear this amazing piece of music
god damn some of the riffs here are divine
just reviewed this one and their first full length. how quickly i forget.
6:53 hits the doom g-spot. or sweet suffering spot.. hits like a giant wall of emotion falling on top of you.
always loved the Witchy look of hers in the cover
She just... intrigues me
always Adored my good DOOM METAL
oh trust me i do not Praise everything too often my friend
mainly what deserves to be praised
haha saw this message while i was listening SHROUD OF FROST By Anathema
yeah she is a cute little force of nature
@@GothicXlightning She looks like my melancholic 17 year old soul, frozen in time there forever.
They gave My Dying Bride a run for their money at the time and then they went off in varying different tangents one to consolidate and experiment, one to experiment and consolidate but i love them both throughout. It doesn't matter if it's clean singing or not, in Metal it's all about the atmosphere conjured.
My favorite Anathema album
such a sick record, I wish more death/doom & funeral doom bands stuck to riffy sadness!
A classical of Doom Metal...a Masterpiece...
Non sapevo che prima di Serandes e Silent Enigma gli Anathema avessero fatto questo!!!! Grazie per la pubblicazione!!!!!
Super band - Anathema !
The track Crestfallen reminds me a lot of early Swans.
Люблю раннюю Анафему их ранние песни и альбомы
Awesome
Muzyka Anathemy, szczególnie ten album oraz The Silent Enigma, pomogła mi przebrnąć przez okres depresji.
Mi też. Kiedy w moim życiu było źle słuchałam w kółko eternity i the silent enigma. Ubolewam nad tym, że nie dane mi było nigdy zobaczyć ich na żywo i nie wiadomo czy jeszcze kiedyś będzie. Ta muzyka hipnotyzujące, emocje w niej zawarte są nie do opisania
AND I LUST !!!!!
Mit diesem Werk war meine Kindheit gerettet! Dank ANATHEMA THANKS
How??? This shit leads directly to suicide! Why would anybody continue living after listening to this?
You are the color of my life, I listen to you with tears, and I love you very much.
Man this ain't in the millionaire views category yet people sleeping on this great doom metal band #Anathema
Anethema’s not doom anymore. More popish as they got older, more sing songy where here they started extreme
Who cares about views or fame? The music with the most views are the worst music. Nicki Minaj, Rihanna, Justin Bieber etc. Most people want easy entertainment. Thats why Bieber is #1
@@MantiaRyche I really love metal, however is difficult for me to understand why for most of the metalheads is hard to enjoy other music genres. Don't compare the current anathema with Nicki Minaj or Justin Bieber. The new Anathema is not pop, is prog/atmospheric rock, and is good music. The metal comunity needs to understand that there's awesome music outside metal too.
@@davidbarrera2286 Agreed, Pat Metheny, Paul Hardcastle, Lothlorien, Loreena Mckennitt, love them all the same!
Lo mejor!
the sweet suffering !!!
During University this was played in our villa non-stop))
2021
Black love is with us, tear by tear, limb by limb.. It withers from our old faces.....
Crestfallen !!!
I'm call this of 'GOLDEN TIMES'!!!👌🤘🧛♂️
HA HA.Beautyfull girl beautyfull song beatyfyll cd, .So many years and i ll sttill love it.
Crestfallen una joya
Obra maestra
5:47
For President 🖤⚡🖤
como eu gosto deste disco !!!!🤘
Hey everyone.
I'm quite on the metalcore..
More energetic metals.
Blast, emo too.
But this masterpiece, btw 1st time listening to this kind of metal and is goooooood stuff!!!!
Ugh!!!
Love it.
Makes you want to do stuff around the house metalish! :)))
Cutting wood,
Planting seeds
Cooking for a loved one :)))
Thats so sweet lol, i really like all kinds of metal but Doom and Metalcore just hit a special spot in my heart.
Keep being metal dude!
Hey, that's cool as hell. Glad you've taken a liking to something outside the realm of metalcore. Don't worry, i plant seeds and take bubble baths to this shit. Lol
Очень хорошая музыка!!!
Master Piece 🤘🤘🤘🤘
Perfecto EP
Нравится Анафема, потому что у них музыка такая отрывистая в некоторых треках и потому что их впервые услышал на Радио России в 1993 году, до сей поры люблю слушать, что далее не то. Клёвый дум, мож даже текникл дум.
Тоже заценил их в начале 90х и до сей поры слушаю. Ностальгия прямо. Привет из Сибири.
An absolute masterpiece. Can anyone tell me anything comparable? Especially with regard to Darren‘s voice.
October Tide's rain without end although they are a bit more melodic death-doom, you could also check out anathema's contemporaries My dying bride and paradise lost.
Darren was also in band called The Blood Divine a very interesting band, also some of that kind of vocal style can be heard on Celtic Frost - Into The Pandemonium, I recommend those two.
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🎉🎉🎉
..not to care if I ever wake......sad but true
sup boys here we are agane! :D
Out of the four great British death/doom bands in the early 90's (Anathema, Cathedral, My Dying Bride and Paradise Lost) this is the one I like less!!
I thought that at the time, now early Anathema is the only one I still listen to.
Люблю...
30:00 и...❗✈️
No please!!! Gathering good band in mandylion..but more differenti in a doom time 90 years🤘🤘
To transition from this Anathema to Gathering, it's necessary to listen to The 3rd and the Mortal first
And remember
They All DIE!
tell them Witch of the cover art
Tiamat- The Gathering
Анафема во всем ....
лучшие
Buralara turkler ugramaz cünkü bilmez, 4 tane sarkiyla anathemacıyız diye geçinir giderler....
hocam uğruyoruz ve biliyoruz, popüler olan kötüdür algısı neden? objektif olarak baktığında buradan bir "one last goodbye" seviyesinde şarkı çıkmış mı yani?
@@orkunkaracan3715 popüler olan kötüdür, çünkü tüketime açık, cilalanmış paketlenmiş suni üründür,buradan bir öne last goodbye çıkamaz çünkü şu kısa albüm (e.p)'nin tek bir şarkısı bile judgment albümünü ezer geçer, buradaki ANATHEMA ile sizin öpüp aglastiginiz ANATHEMA aynı değil.buradaki.gorkemli bir sound ve dönem çünkü
@@teutonicthrasher1774 allah allah ben anathemanın popüler şarkılarına ağlayan bir poserım galiba. ne acayip şu an bile 50.000 dinlenmiş bir albümü 2019 yazında kimbilir ne kadar dinlenmişken (ki ilk dinlemem de değil) gelip dinlemişim, yorumları okumuşum ve yorum yazmışım. anathema o dönemiyle doom metalin en baba gruplarından biri olmuş, ben de çok severim, hala açar dinlerim. ama sonra gittikleri yol değişmiş ve o yolda da çok başarılı olarak geniş kitlelere ulaşmışlar. popüler olan kötüdür diyorsun da anathema’yı direkt crestfallen’la tanıdın sen galiba, popüler şarklılarını hiç dinlemeden bu yorumu yapıyorsan gerçekten tebrik ederim seni. anathemanın şarkılarının tamamına olmasa bile çoğuna hakim biri olarak en sevdiğim şarkılarından biri one last goodbye. çok güzel sözler yazan bir grup fakat kaç şarkısının bu kadar vurucu bir hikayesi var? insanların çoğunun bu şarkıyı bilmesiyle şarkıyı değersiz kılması arasında nasıl bir bağ var? en son 15 yaşımda popüler olan kötüdür algısına sahiptim, senin de aşmanı tavsiye ediyorum, böyle yaşamak bayağı zor olmalı
Recuerdos a mansalva
2020?
Just came on here to hear the transition that the band has musically. I'm also from Liverpool where the band hails from!!
@@itcantbeadream8728 yeah man.I'm living just off break road,do you know what part of Anfield they come from?
@@pjsmith2744 I can't say I do, but I lived in the city centre for a few years not too long ago and used to see Danny and Jamie wandering around when I was out and about. Nice lads.
@@itcantbeadream8728 nice one man!! Met Danny once in the Swan pub,didn't go up to him or nothing like. I was too afraid!! Lol!
😞
анафема май дай брайд тиамат
н а в с е ДА
Нормально.Слушаем дальше
ZOV
Why why why???
Yes, why do you sold the original Crestfallen EP... now you will have to amuse yourself with a copy.
Alguien que sepa el nombre de la chica de la tapa del album? O quien fue?
та самая девочка со взглядом волчиці
Serenades,Crestfallen, Pentecost, briliant piece The Silent Enigma, and Eternity after them I was try to listen upcoming albums but them are unattractive
Que buenos eran al principio .... como destrozaron el nombre de este grupo... que pena
What has happened with you people? You were Icon, now you're selling instruments on some shity site. I'm sorry, not for you, but for all the people you have failed.
MlLo9516
It´s OK, but Silent Enigma is way better
Chingada rola no tiene sentido estaba drogado el wey cuando la canto con voz gutural y me caga la madre tiene pedos pero a mi esposo loco le gusta. No mames
Drogado o no, a miles de personas nos gusta esta rola y todas las de sus primero discos, no sabes lo que dices
Quem poderia imaginar que a super banda Anathema
já foi essa merda antigamente!!
Merda?! HAHAHAHA. Tá mal de ouvido em amigo?! Melhor tu ouvir os prog rock mesmo que deve ser bem sua cara, sua cara e seu gosto de merda que tu deve ter!!!
(00:00) ...And I Lust
(05:47) The Sweet Suffering
(12:29) Everwake
(15:10) Crestfallen
(25:27) They Die
falto they die
@@johanpiro4853 True, but still it's nice that "It Can't Be a Dream" gave us time stamps for this depressing shit. Damn, this EP is so depressing ... and I love it.
Glorious music, heard this as a teen and didn't stop following their sonic journey
Ruth🤘