(Doom Metal) Veni Domine - Material Sanctuary - 1995, FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Emerging from Sweden Veni Domine came up and considering the country they are from you can expect really good music and indeed this release is just outstanding.
This is their second release and for me it is even better than Fall Babylon Fall. For those of you who don’t know the band they are pretty much like the Christian version of Candlemass. Fredrik Ohlsson’s vocals are very similar to Geoff Tate’s and Bruce Dickinson. He can sustain high octaves very long and is an excellent singer. The music is very slow yet really powerful, orchestrated and epic. Their themes cover a lot of issues about the spiritual life in a very philosophical and deep way.
Now the music: every single song is long, clocking at an average of 7-8 min. They are epic, have monumental orchestrations, and are very slow; only one track is actually fast and you get walls of chorus gallantly performed. Now, when you are performing slow music you have to make sure you have enough ideas to fill out a long song and somehow they succeed in keeping the interest listening to the album with calm passages, good solos, and a special mood for every song. There is also an instrumental at the end ‘Baroque Moderne’ which is basically a flute solo to perfectly close the album.
I have my doubts about the power of the cover, despite the strong concept the colors and the art itself is not that cool as Fall Babylon Fall but anyhow the elegance of the booklet counts and most important, if you like Heavy Doom bands like Solitude Aeternus and Candlemass without fast tracks then this one is for you. I find this album enchanting as it manages to involve me in an atmosphere of epic proportions and thoughts which are all but pleasant that only good Doom bands know how to do.
Written by Kalelfromkrypton on November 28th, 2007 /metal-archives.com/

Vocals - Fredrik Ohlsson
Guitar - TTorbjörn Weinesjö
Bass - Magnus Thorman
Drums - Thomas Weinesjö

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Veni Domine / Material Sanctuary
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