Songs of Good Taste

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Songs of Good Taste
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EP by The Vision Bleak
Released 31 January 2001
Genre Gothic metal, doom metal
Length17:51
Label Self-released
The Vision Bleak chronology
Songs of Good Taste
(2001)
The Vision Bleak
(2003) The Vision Bleak2003

Songs of Good Taste is an extended play by the German gothic metal band The Vision Bleak, as well as their first official studio release overall. It was self-released by the band on 31 January 2001, and re-released by their long-time label Prophecy Productions on 1 January 2004. [1]

Extended play musical recording longer than a single, but shorter than a full album

An extended play record, often referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP. EPs generally contain a minimum of four tracks and maximum of six tracks, and are considered "less expensive and time-consuming" for an artist to produce than an album. An EP originally referred to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play (SP) and LP, but it is now applied to mid-length CDs and downloads as well.

Germany Federal parliamentary republic in central-western Europe

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central and Western Europe, lying between the Baltic and North Seas to the north, and the Alps to the south. It borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, France to the southwest, and Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands to the west.

Gothic metal is a fusion genre combining the heaviness of heavy metal with the dark atmospheres of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music. The genre originated during the early 1990s in the United Kingdom originally as an outgrowth of death-doom, a fusion of death metal and doom metal. Lyrics are generally dark and introspective with inspiration from gothic fiction as well as personal experiences.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by The Vision Bleak unless noted.

The Vision Bleak band

The Vision Bleak is a German gothic metal band formed in 2000, comprising Ulf Theodor Schwadorf, Allen B. Konstanz and, since 2015, Fursy Teyssier as a live musician. The band's lyrics are noted for their horror themes and heavily allude to the works of classic writers/filmmakers of the genre, such as H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, George A. Romero and John Carpenter, among others. They self-describe their musical style, which mixes gothic metal, doom metal, symphonic metal and horror punk aesthetics, as "horror metal".

No.TitleLength
1."To the Silent Water"4:45
2."Nights in White Satin" (The Moody Blues cover)5:01
3."The World Today"4:18
4."The Sleepy Song"3:55

Personnel

The Vision Bleak

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