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The Eye

by Stone Ship

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Gojira Blume
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Gojira Blume This is something to dive into. Like a pool sized bowl of caramel pudding.
Yusi Cheng
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Yusi Cheng What a shame that this band still remains unknown to many doom metal fans out there. This is as epic as any release that almighty Reverend Bizarre ever put out ! 真·西方厄运巨人! Favorite track: The Crooked Tree.
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last vinyl before doomsday Peak Finnish doom metal. This band excels at making lengthy compositions that are psychedelic and unnerving, but rooted in the Finnish true doom tradition.
Sonny92
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Sonny92 These finnish doomsters can't ever be accused of not allowing their songs to develop, with this album comprising of just two 20 minute plus tracks. Both tracks follow a similar template of a gentle beginning, building and building as they progress to a glorious climactic cacophony. Fans of the band's illustrious countrymen, Reverend Bizarre, should find plenty to enjoy here. Favorite track: The Ship of Stone.
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DHU RECORDS Incredible Doom Metal at it's finest. Not a dull moment in each of these epic hymns. Sturdy riffage, darkened wails and mesmeric atmosphere to the hilt!

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1.
[In lost spheres the trifold vortex brew As one: favourable illusions Tearing down as four angles Delusions may escape once again From a point a line from a line a surface From a surface the seas Through the vortical cross the death is spread] Open the gates Diffuse the breach of being Turn the seas Down to the frozen womb Sinking in the currents of abyssal hymns Pouring as a thickness of dreams The dark stream of cold water Squeezed into echoes and shapes Of circulating current beneath All from the same river mouth A crescentic boat is sailing In the valleys of the deepest well Carrying the rays of the Sun The patterns of depth's slumbering arts The Stone bell of doom The Doom bell of stone The coiling of the abyssal depth The coiling of the abysmal depth The coiling of the circles From which the weird is woven The dreamer's gate Pulsing through Following the shape of the black bird Guided above the night fog On the long path of the grave-fish All the threads must be known [Solo by V. Viskari] Above coniferous castles And the graves of the old The vortex evolves further As the ship of stone An ellipse with a dragon-like face Eyes see through the star ice cold Coated by the equinoxial night The wind salutes that sculpture The carvings which tend the stars Spiralling devotion Highest octaves of the winged sun Gather around the presence of the purple maid As the shoreless night floods upon Under of the turned seas Coniferous shadows whistle no more Serpentine motions, a presence so strong Oh, the fine worlds behind revealed Floating on the moulting fields In the rhythm of a geometrical sway Construction reflecting the structure of the universe The womb and the grave Navigated by the golden temple In the sea the fire should be found Ethereal vapours of strange light Dissolving away time and space Summoned by the crystal gate Countless eyes from the unspeakable planes Dissolving to the one... The continents melting to liquid Soaring up as mist The limits of space immense Are covered by stonen scales In the light of stones in the ring of dimensions Sounding the sea of endless space By the secrets of the purple maid Withdrawing within eternity
2.
Above the dimness of woods I wonder The boundaries of earth and sky The silence of this ever-burning grave Gazing the journey of the celestial bodies And how those distant fires carved their signs On the surface of the seas Reflections of the weight of the stars around Outlined against ambient serenity Thus rose the windy tree from thin air The revelation of the nightly shadow To rise from the rock To reach out towards the pole star Hear the chants from behind the waters When lines thicken drawn by the primeval light The angles of the transcendent current Woven by the depths of space The orbits and chords of stars assemble thousandfold As leaves around the abysmal stem The vibrant forms gather as a multidimensonal vision Ascending like the lily of the waters Thus rose the windy tree from thin air The revelation of the nightly shadow To gather from the rock Summoned by the eyes of the sky Like language is the tone of that flowery fir Its words as if spread by the wind Dim bewitching tongue from it's branches The pulse from beyond the stars Thus introduced the tree itself in the northwind Reciting it's name: the number of stars The one who absorbs from the deepest well From the depths of the unknown [Solo by V. Viskari] "Secrets of beingness, The hope of men Lies in the abyss 'i' is the way, throughout the eight" To learn from the branches and leaves He rose to the tree of shadows Whose words are pronounced by the wind Nights in the grasp of branches Left foot spelling the fullness of space The sentiments of the hanged The centrifugal melody Along the spear's shaft I saw through the gates of death On the heart blood-dyed steed Swaying in the wind Hanging as a corpse I listened to the river's bed Noted the great sea-serpent From the signs on it's scales I fathomed it's true length The fermentation of the serpentine waters I hear The sights of the branches and leaves The principles of the phonetic foundation of space The entity of Being In the middle of the pitch-black sea I settled down Embraced the star abstractions To coil through the knotholes Steady, calm & tight I fall into the night ”On that tree No man knoweth The roots beneath its growth” The Eye

about

Line-up:

M. Heinonen: Vocals
A. Lehto: Drums, keyboards & backing vocals
J. Kuosmanen: Rhythm & lead guitar
R. Pesonen: Bass, acoustic guitar & narration

credits

released December 21, 2013

The Eye" dikipak CD is available via Feuer Publications:

www.feuerpublications.com

Producted by Stone Ship. Recorded & mixed by Antti Lehto & Markus Heinonen. Mastered by Markus Heinonen/Saarni Music.

Bacchanals were held at the band’s rehearsal cottage in the middle
of nowhere between December 2012–December 2013.

All music by Stone Ship. Lyrics and the album concept by R. Pesonen. Additional lead guitar by V. Viskari.
Quote in the end of The Crooked Tree is taken from Hávamál.
Sounds of Saturn in The Ship of Stone by NASA.
Album cover photo by Joel Laitinen.

Reviews:

doom-metal.com/reviews.php?album=3059 (In English, 8/10)
www.imperiumi.net/index.php?act=albums&id=16630 (In Finnish, 8,5/10)
www.miasma.fi/stone-ship-the-eye-kasetti/#more-9119 (In Finnish, 9/10)
kaaoszine.fi/stone-ship-the-eye/ (In Finnish, 8-/10)
metalbrothers.es/criticas/criticas-internacionales/stone-ship-the-eye-2016/ (In Spanish, 8/10)
www.whiteroomreviews.nl/cdreview/eye (In Dutch)
www.avenoctum.com/2016/12/stone-ship-the-eye-feuer-publications/ (In English, 8/10)
www.themidlandsrocks.com/stone-ship-the-eye/ (In English, 8/10)
www.demonic-nights.at/2016/12/stone-ship-the-eye/ (In German, 8/10)
www.kaosguards.com/content/view/11873/1/ (In French, 17/20)
letteredallunderground.blogspot.fi/2016/11/stone-ship-eye-puo-essere-il-doom.html (In Italian, 7,5/10)
metaleyes.iyezine.com/stone-ship-the-eye/ (In Italian, 7,2/10)

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