Songs of Moors and Misty Fields

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Songs of Moors and Misty Fields
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Studio album by
ReleasedJune 13, 1997
Genre Doom metal, symphonic metal, folk metal, black metal
Length44:49
Label Prophecy
Empyrium chronology
A Wintersunset...
(1996)
Songs of Moors and Misty Fields
(1997)
Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays
(1999)

Songs of Moors and Misty Fields (1997) is the second album by the German band Empyrium.

Contents

Elaborating on their previous full-length album, A Wintersunset... released a year before, with Songs of Moors... Empyrium delve into a more sophisticated intricacy of what is sometimes called "romantic metal", offering a complicated mix of percussion, flutes, bass guitars and synths, together with its will-be trademark deep baritone male vocals performed by Schwadorf himself (who also plays virtually all the instrument parties, except for keyboards).

The band's following two albums, Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays (1999) and Weiland (2002), are purely acoustic.

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."When Shadows Grow Longer"1:26
2."The Blue Mists of Night"6:24
3."Mourners"9:15
4."Ode to Melancholy"8:44
5."Lover's Grief"9:08
6."The Ensemble of Silence"9:52
Total length:44:49

Personnel

Additional personnel

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