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The full-length album from Russian funeral doom metal band Everlasting combines a wide variety of emotional tones. Renounced character of suppressing guitars is accompanied by sensual and touching keyboards and solo guitar parties. One of the unique band features is the absence of bass section. «March Of Time» is an ode to inexorability of time, to triumph of inviolability of the course of history. Each song has its own mood, replenishing the previous one and continuing its idea, as the main lyrics theme is philosophic thoughts about aims, personal choice and human mission.Plunge into raw funeral music in the vein of Mournful Congregation and, especially, Thergothon.

Tracklist:
1 Remaining In Ground 15:11
2 Тhe Great Contradiction 11:29
3 March Of Time 14:44
4 Silence 9:44

Artist:
Everlasting
Artist Country:
Russia
Album Year:
2013
Title:
March Of Time
Genre:
funeral doom metal
Format:
CD
Type:
CD Album
Package:
Jewel Case
Label:
Solitude Productions
Cat Num:
SP. 077-13
Release Year:
2013
Barcode:
4627080610446
Country Of Manufacture:
Russia
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Evilized

Wenngleich die aus Rostow am Don stammende Formation EVERLASTING bereits seit 2007 aktiv ist, dauerte es doch bis zum Ende des vergangenen Jahres, bis mit der Platte ”MARCH OF TIME” das Debütwerk der Truppe veröffentlicht werden konnte. Zwar erwecken die vier russischen Musiker auf diese Weise nicht unbedingt den Eindruck, vor Produktivität oder Feuereifer zu strotzen, doch wie das Album letztlich zeigt, beweisen sie immerhin ein recht glückliches Händchen für traditionellen Funeral Doom Metal.


am Schaffen von Kapellen wie SHAPE OF DISPAIR, EVOKEN oder auch THERGOTHON orientiert

So hält ”MARCH OF TIME” insgesamt vier Tracks mit einer üppigen Gesamtlaufzeit von rund 50 Minuten bereit, die sich durch und durch genretypisch präsentieren und mit den gewohnt klassischen Elementen ausgestattet wurden, statt auf außergewöhnliche oder gar experimentelle stilistische Mittel zurückzugreifen. Schleppende Schlagzeugrhythmen und ein eher simpel gehaltenes Riffing samt dumpfen Growls bilden ein zugegeben wenig innovatives Grundgerüst, das jedoch durch spährische Keyboardsounds und stimmige Leadgitarren, die sich recht offensichtlich am Schaffen von Kapellen wie SHAPE OF DISPAIR, EVOKEN oder auch THERGOTHON orientiert zeigen, ergänzt und somit auch aufgewertet wird. Fast durchgängig gelingt es EVERLASTING, die melancholisch-düsteren Melodiebögen der Sechsaiter mit den synthetischen Klängen zu einem geschickt ineinandergreifenden Geflecht zu verarbeiten und somit durchaus ansprechende Kompositionen zu erschaffen, die zwar vielschichtig ausgeschmückt, aber dennoch nicht überladen wurden.

Sicher, nicht jede Idee auf ”MARCH OF TIME” wurde perfekt umgesetzt und so ergeben sich hin und wieder einzelne Passagen, die ein wenig langamtig oder nicht vollends ausgereift erscheinen, wie etwa die leicht kitschig anmutenden Harmonien im abschließenden ”Silence”. An anderer Stelle hingegegen wissen eingeflochtene Klavierspuren oder flotte Blastparts zu überzeugen, mit denen die Russen ihrem Langspieler eine eigene Note einverleiben.

Zweifelsohne erreicht ”MARCH OF TIME” nicht ansatzweise die Klasse von Werken wie ”STREAMS FROM THE HEAVENS” oder ”EMBRACE THE EMPTINESS”. Dennoch finden sich einige gute Ansätze in den Songs von EVERLASTING, die mit einer etwas kraftvolleren und differenzierten Produktion sicherlich noch besser zur Geltung kommen würden. Es bleibt abzuwarten, wie das Quartett sein vorhandenes Potential auf zukünftigen Veröffentlichungen umsetzen wird.

Author: Urkraft
Solitude Productions 16.06.2014, 23:12
Review
Spirit of Metal
06.12.2013

Everlasting nous vient de Russie (plus précisément de Rostov-sur-le-Don), et nous propose son premier album via le label Solitude Productions.

Le Funeral Doom que nous propose le groupe est très classique, offrant une ambiance très calme et reposante qui est de fait très bien illustrée par la photographie choisie pour la pochette. Les trois musiciens russes ne mettent en effet pas particulièrement l'accent sur la lourdeur ni sur la noirceur, préférant adopter une ambiance assez méditative et vaguement mélancolique. Les mélodies à la guitare y jouent un rôle de premier plan et constituent le cœur des morceaux. Très simples, elles sont assez efficaces mais manquent sévèrement de personnalité. Même constat pour le clavier: les nappes comme les notes de piano utilisées tout au long de l'album sont extrêmement classiques, quoique appréciables.
Mentionnons enfin la présence de quelques samples de pluie et d'orage pour renforcer l'ambiance sur le morceau-titre.

Les vocaux quand à eux vont du chant clair (sur le dernier titre notamment) aux passages parlés et autres murmures, en passant par un growl malheureusement assez faiblard. De fait, de manière générale le chant, quoique assez présent
proportionnellement aux parties uniquement instrumentales, reste relativement en retrait et ne cherche pas à prendre l'ascendant sur les instruments au sein de l'album.
Un état de fait qui certes diminue l'importance que l'on pourrait donner au manque de technique vocale du chanteur claviériste Dmitriy Belyaev et convient fort bien à l'atmosphère solennelle que nous propose l'album, mais n'aide pas non plus ce dernier à acquérir de véritables temps forts.

De fait, ceux-ci sont assez rares. On pourra principalement remarquer l'accélération que nous propose le morceau Remaining the Ground, qui si elle pourrait être plus intense a le mérite d'être relativement inattendue, ainsi que le sympathique enchaînement de mélodies qui entame la dernière séquence de The Great Contradiction.
Ce manque de relief n'entame certes pas la capacité de l'album à nous plonger dans une atmosphère paisible très agréable, au contraire, mais il l’empêche par contre de se détacher d'une myriade de formations similaires, aussi bien du point de vue de la personnalité que de la dimension purement qualitative. Ce March of Time a beau s'en sortir de manière tout à fait honorable, il risque de n'intéresser que les acharnés du style..

Author: Peacewalker
Solitude Productions 29.04.2014, 18:41
Review
Pest Webzine
7.5/10

Probably Funeral Doom Metal is one of the most hermetic styles out there, it'doesn't allow much space for coming up with your own thing and you have to be really slick to break some boundaries. Everlasting created a nice little debut album here but their lack of experience is quite obvious: the album has some sublime moments and touches of genius, but it is also sprinkled with dull, overused typical passages that should be eliminated in the future. I have probably enjoyed the vocal part the most, but there's definite potential in every instrument so as a debut album I'd say March of Time reached its goal and presented us a band to raise some eyebrows and spark some interest for upcoming releases.

Author: Adrian
Solitude Productions 04.04.2014, 03:30
Review
Chronicles of Chaos
1/10
02.03.2014

Funeral doom, the once inaccessible, rare, mysterious and elitist form of heavy metal; the most crushingly heavy yet most ethereal of them all, steadily popularized among aspiring metal musicians, over-crowding the underground, and in the process undergoing some major watering-down. Today, some of this style's musical ambassadors are nothing but a pale shadow of the genre's aesthetics and how they should be perceived and executed.
If you thought good funeral doom is easy to compose and that it is virtually impossible to record a bad funeral doom album, when all one needs it some simple tunes and the right, crawling pace, well, _March of Time_ may prove you wrong.

Although Everlasting isn't a bedroom project per se, as it incorporates real musicians playing real instruments -- the whole assembly of metal instruments, drums included -- the band's debut album sounds like a bedroom product whose only majestic characteristics are probably the beautiful bleak landscapes lit by a setting sun captured gracefully in the photos adorning the album's covers, echoing the brooding yet contemplative mood of Yearning's _With Tragedies Adorned_ cover -- other than that, any similarities stop right there.

That aside, _March of Time_ is a linear, banal, uninteresting recording without a clear direction, containing some really weak musical moments that pay homage to the funeral doom style with their pale echoing shadow without straying off from the route set by their predecessors but with a much diminished presence or charisma, where a high pitched guitar tone coupled with some sloppy synthesizers and a sporadic drum beat drag on and on aimlessly, helped by a vocalist who mostly speaks in low key using broken English (do not read the lyrics, as they make the whole charade even worse than it already is) and above all, a thin, if not anorexic, distorted guitar in endless sustain that offers confused, unfocused, sporadic non-riffage (mostly sporadic chords), as if the band have been jamming and the guitarist has just been inventing ad-hoc these guitar manipulations without investing any real thought.

The faster parts are misplaced and totally out of context, exhibiting some quirky and awfully non-engaging black metal routine that totally kills the mild atmosphere the band has been struggling to build with tooth and nail. Some nice, brooding neoclassical piano pieces do not salvage this recording from total ruination and forgetfulness, as this is one faceless and unimaginative album, if there ever was one.

I cannot think of anyone in their right mind who would enjoy this recording, not even the ones who make their first steps in the realm of funeral doom, as this is neither funeral nor doom, just a mumbo jumbo of almost random notes without even the slightest clue regarding both the art of song writing and the meaning of inspiration.

Author: Chaim Drishner
Solitude Productions 03.03.2014, 16:41
Review
Lords of Metal
7.2/10

Russische band? Check! Solitude Productions? Check! Funeral Doom? Dubbelcheck! U weet voldoende? Geen dank, graag gedaan! Er is uiteraard wel wat meer te vertellen over Everlasting. De bandnaam refereert uiteraard aan Thergothon. De band heeft geen bassist. Wel twee gitaristen, een toetsenist en drummer. March Of Time is het eerste album. Is hun muziek altijd langzaam? Nee, in het openingsnummer zit ook een snellere passage. De band noemt naast Thergothon ook Mournful Congregation als invloed. Nu weet u wel alles, toch?

Author: Pim B.
Solitude Productions 01.03.2014, 18:38
Review
Atmosfear Magazine №13
7/10

Кому мало в этой жизни печали и скорби, тот может смело пополнить свои чувства посредством дебютного альбома от россиян EVERLASTING. Исполняют музыканты из Ростова-На-Дону сырой funeral doom metal, причем, что интересно без бас-секции. Ну, по моему мнению, это скорее хорошо, чем плохо. Надо ведь выделяться из сотен подобных групп чем-то. Также порадовала философская лирика, в которой помимо прочего затронута такая важная тема как предназначение человека на этой земле. Приятно, что хоть кто-то из музыкантов, исполняющих тяжелую музыку об этом задумывается. Ну а приятное оформление станет дополнительным стимулом для того, чтобы приобрести этот диск. В особенности фэнам таких групп как THERGOTHON и MOURNFUL CONGREGATION.

Author: CS
Solitude Productions 18.02.2014, 23:11
Review
Scream Magazine
5/5

Russland skuffer sjelden når det kommer til funeral doom, og Everlasting er altså det siste i en lang rekke kvalitetsband fra naboene i øst. Noe direkte informasjon rundt bandet finnes ikke, det eneste jeg vet er at man startet opp i 2007, og at dette er debuten. Hva er det egentlig å vite, bortsett fra det? «March Of Time» er ikke et album der låtene drar seg over halvtimen, ei heller er platen spesielt lang, men 55 minutter er da også helt passe i blant. Vokalen er gurglende dyp, men i enkelte temposkifter drar den seg mer over i en slags black-variant, ikke ulikt det Aaron fra My Dying Bride har gjort i det siste. Så som du skjønner, det er ikke bare seighet her, enkelte partier er nærmest blastbeats faktisk. Vel verdt en investering.

Author: Bjørn Nørsterud
Solitude Productions 18.02.2014, 19:26
Review
Darkview
7.5/10
17.01.2014

Funeral doom is sowieso al een gerne waarbij aan de nummers nooit een einde lijkt te komen. Als je je band dan nog Everlasting gaat noemen…

Geen wonder dat de plaat dus amper 4 tracks telt. Een beetje doomfan wordt natuurlijk wel verwacht over een redelijke attentiespanne te beschikken om nummers van een kwartier aan te kunnen. Ze maken het zichzelf ook niet gemakkelijker door ook nog eens geen gebruik te maken van een basgitaar. Iets wat je bij andere funeraldoombands ook wel soms ziet, bv bij Profetus. Hoewel de muziek dus danig is uitgepuurd, weten ze mits subtiele keyboardarrangementen en een vrij helder leadgitaargeluid je toch door hun composities te loodsen zonder je in slaap te wiegen.

Author: Samoht
Solitude Productions 19.01.2014, 00:42
Review
The Pit of the Damned
7/10
01.03.2014

Ancora Solitude Productions, ancora Russia, ancora debutto, esordio, chiamatelo come vi pare, ma di questo si tratta: gli Everlasting sono tre ragazzotti provenienti da Rostov sul Don, cresciuti a pane e funeral doom e territori limitrofi, con un buon gusto per la scelta delle melodie e un pizzico di apertura mentale che tanto fa bene al genere in questione. D’accordo, magari alcuni storceranno il naso di fronte all’etichetta funeral, preferendo un più “mite” doom-e-basta, ma l’incedere e la durata dei quattro pezzi che compongono questo disco mi autorizzano a parlare in tali termini senza troppi scrupoli. Cosa rende valido quest’album? Nessun miracolo, nessuna trovata rivoluzionaria o cambio di paradigma, ma tanta dedizione alla musica e un’attenta analisi della scena musicale sguazzante tra doom, gothic, funeral, con spruzzi black, ricerca di melodie di più ampio respiro e meno soffocanti, zozzeria della voce in growl ad hoc e momenti di cantato pulito o addirittura parlato. Non segnalo nessun pezzo in particolare, perché tutti meritano un ascolto con la giusta impostazione mentale, ma senza ritrovarsi per forza con l’umore a terra in una uggiosa giornata di febbraio, sotto l’acqua battente sui vetri delle finestre di casa. I ragazzi sulla loro pagina Bandcamp citano le loro fonti d’ispirazione, in particolare Mournful Congregation e Thergothon, il che ci semplifica di poco il lavoro di “caccia” perché i riferimenti in effetti sono piuttosto chiari, e questo non è un male in quanto da buone fonti partono i lavori migliori. Quindi plauso alla Solitude Productions per l’ulteriore scoperta e, che vi devo dire, lunga vita al funeral doom… il che sembra un controsenso, ma non stavolta! Promossi.

Author: Filippo Zanotti
Solitude Productions 04.01.2014, 03:58
Review
Pure Nothing Worship

Looks like Rostov-on-Don, is a very dark place. A city in which once Andrei Chikatilo murdered, can now be commended for a rich metal scene of the darker sphere. Everlasting is a new band which plays atmospheric funeral doom. Many will be skeptical an will think that this is just “another boring doom band from Russia”. Wrong. These guys play great funeral doom with crushing guitars, dark keyboards, and vocals varying from whispers, clean vocals to growls and screams. "March Of Time" contains four somber monolithic compositions in the complete length of more than 50 minutes. Lyrically , the album deals with inner struggles, different life questions, pessimistic views on the world and other similar themes. A great album which shines like a diamond in the sand of the boring bands that flow in the doom metal scene. Recommended to those who never stopped mourning the break up of Thergothon, especially because of the vocals, and to fans of bands like Longing for Dawn, Colosseum, Mournful Congregation, and old Pantheist.
Solitude Productions 27.12.2013, 02:19
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