Green Carnation
"Light of Day, Day of Darkness"
- "Light of Day, Day of Darkness" (60:05)
Move over, Edge of Sanity, there's a new player in town!! This
monster of a tune breaks all records for the longest single-track song in existence, blowing
away even all multi-track suites like "A Pleasant Shade of Grey", "Concerto for Group and
Orchestra", and "Thick as a Brick"! Thought not as eternally brilliant as "Crimson", this
song is a masterpiece of slow-paced doom/thrash metal (with clean vocals, thankfully.) It
does drag in parts, and one could argue that it's really just a bunch of separate songs
strung together, but thematically it works as a whole.
Doing some research into this band revealed a strange history...the main leader, a guy
called "Tchort", was also the founding member of Emperor, but this band actually came
before Emperor was formed, and in fact broke up when Emperor formed. And after
Emperor broke up (due to various controversies involving murder & such, you know how those
Swedish black metal bands are), the original members of GC decided to reform. Also, this
album (and the one preceding it, which I don't have yet) are dedicated to the memory of
Tchort's dead son, thus contributing to the dark, mournful sound...quite fitting, since I
received this disc in the mail the same day that I found out my cousin had killed herself
on the day after Christmas. Something I'll probably forever associate this music with,
I have a feeling.
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