ARTIST: Unto Ashes
TITLE: Grave Blessings
LABEL: Projekt
GENRE: Gothic
BITRATE: 193kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 53min total
RELEASE DATE: 2005-07-12
RIP DATE: 2005-07-22

Track List

01. Tous Esforciez                  4:26
02. Winter Born                     3:18
03. Tortured By Rose Thorns         4:27
04. In Memory Of D'Drennan          3:31
05. Emptiness                       4:00
06. The Turning                     3:02
07. Three Haiku                     3:50
08. The Drowning Man                5:57
09. If I Come To You                3:13
10. Lesson                          3:58
11. Four More Years                 1:13
12. Four Loom Weaver                2:58
13. Way Of The World                3:30
14. Frühling                        2:47
15. Banishment Spell                2:56

Release Notes:

Gothic / Medieval / Apocalyptic Folk

Grave Blessings, the fourth full-length album from Unto Ashes is easily their
most powerful and emotional work to date. It is a virtual essay in "blood-lit"
music, exquisitely created, performed, and recorded. Once again, Unto Ashes
reveals their signature combination of sublime vocal harmonies and
characteristically unorthodox instrumentation: hurdy-gurdy, dulcimers, cello,
French horn, acoustic and electric guitars, and vast drums and percussion. Grave
Blessings presents fifteen "offerings" to the living and the dead, to those who
are loved, and to those who are lost. "In Memory of D'Drennan" - written in
response to the suicide of the beloved Regent of New York's Vampire court - is
so seductive, so infectious, that it seems destined to become THE unintentional
hit on the dance floors of goth clubs from Gotham to Leipzig. Three highly
unlikely covers, including The Cure's venerable "The Drowning Man" (here
performed on acoustic instruments), an Apocalyptic folk version of "The Way of
the World" (written by the influential, now-defunct Punk band Flipper), and
finally a spectacular version of QNTAL's "Frühling" in which instruments from
three continents (Appalachian dulcimer, church organ, and dumbec) are impossibly
employed; and yet the effect is unmistakably victorious.