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Arcturus  - Aspera Hiems Symfonia album flac Performer: Arcturus
Title: Aspera Hiems Symfonia
Style: Black Metal, Avantgarde
Released: 2012
Country: Norway
MP3 album: 1326 mb
FLAC album: 1524 mb
Rating: 4.1
Other formats: MPC VOC DTS WMA MIDI XM RA
Genre: Rock

Aspera Hiems Symfonia (Latin for "Harsh Winter's Symphony") is the debut studio album by the Norwegian avant-garde metal band Arcturus. Aspera is the only black metal album Arcturus released, though it still contains many of the experimental elements that would be expanded upon on their following albums, which saw the band shift permanently into the genres of avant-garde and progressive metal.

Arcturus Aspera Hiems Symfonia The album title is Latin for "Harsh Winter Symphony". Songs 2, 4, 6, & 8 are re-recorded versions of songs originally found on the Constellation 1994 EP. The first pressing of the digipak omits track 8 on the back cover and has unexplained asterisks behind the song titles of tracks 4 & 5.

Aspera Hiems Symfonia" is a cult Black Metal album. The majority of dark and macabre music for music fans is Black Metal. But this Norwegian band Arcturus is one of those bands that make Black Metal an intellectual type of music, because of the highly inspired musicians that form the band, the one that shines the most being Kristoffer "Garm" Rygg, also singer of Norwegian band Ulver. Usually these albums aren't that great, some are dull and uninspired. But this is not the case, as a matter of fact, this is a really enjoyable album. But it definitely isn't an album that gives you the chills, or makes you feel depressed.

Arcturus (2). Aspera Hiems Symfonia ‎(CD, Album, Promo). Ancient Lore Creations. Arcturus (2). Aspera Hiems Symfonia ‎(LP, Album, Ltd, RE). Kyrck Productions.

Aspera hiems symfonia. Aspera hiems symfonia Tracklist. 1. To Thou Who Dwellest In The Night Lyrics. 2. Wintry Grey Lyrics. 3. Whence & Whither Goest the Wind Lyrics.

A graceful mixture of classical majesty and black-metal brooding and aggression, Aspera is a powerhouse album chock full of charged riffs, sinister chants and howls, and some wonderfully foreboding atmospheres. Wintry Grey" is a metal tune worthy of the Clockwork Orange soundtrack.

Tracklist

A1 To Thou Who Dwellest In The Night
A2 Wintry Grey
A3 Whence & Whither Goest The Wind
A4 Raudt Og Svart
B1 The Bodkin & The Quietus (...To Reach The Stars)
B2 Du Nordavind
B3 Fall Of Man
B4 Naar Kulda Tar (Frostnettenes Prolog)
B5 The Bodkin... (Early 1994 Rehearsal Version)

Notes

Deluxe LP, including an early version of the Bodkin track as bonus track, silverprint 8 page booklet and poster.
Limited to 300 copies on Green/Black blend vinyl.

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
ALC 002 Arcturus Aspera Hiems Symfonia ‎(CD, Album, M/Print, Dig) Ancient Lore Creations ALC 002 Norway 1996
ALCP 001 Arcturus Aspera Hiems Symfonia ‎(CD, Album, Promo) Ancient Lore Creations ALCP 001 Norway 1996
KLP017 Arcturus Aspera Hiems Symfonia ‎(LP, Album, Ltd, RE) Kyrck Productions KLP017 Greece 2012
7835-2 Arcturus Aspera Hiems Symfonia ‎(CD, Album, RP) Century Black 7835-2 US Unknown
ALC 002 Arcturus Aspera Hiems Symfonia ‎(CDr, Album, Unofficial) Ancient Lore Creations ALC 002 Russia Unknown