A Storm of Light

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And We Wept The Black Ocean Within CD NEU59

  1. Adrift
  2. Vast & Endless
  3. Black Ocean
  4. Thunderhead
  5. Undertow
  6. Mass
  7. Leaden Tide
  8. Breach
  9. Descent
  10. Iron Heart

While the immediate heavy rock referents of A Storm Of Light's antecedents make sense, the album has just as much in common with narrative-based groups like Crime & The City Solution than conceptual metal. As an early influence on Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (and later to share members), Crime & The City Solution's Simon Bonney penned dark tales of desperation and punctuated them with precise song structures that flowed with the prose, rarely adhering to traditional verse-chorus-verse formula. Likewise, And We Wept The Black Ocean Within moves in versicle form between the voice and instruments. The result is an album densely packed with suspense, tension and eruptive release.

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