Recommendation: ARKADIA "Arkadia"

[Erik]

ARKADIA (CAN) "Arkadia" (2002 self-release)

1. Erasing Reality
2. The Stench of Life
3. Twilight Nears
4. Hopeless Descent
5. In The Shadows
6. The Sobering Taste of Death
7. Through A Black Hole
8. Sinking

This is total darkness. No hope, no light. It's the sort of stuff that's impossible to listen to passively, this music will reduce you to incapability to continue whatever it was you were doing & staring emptily into the air before you. For fans of STRID, BURZUM...

This is pretty useless to "recommend" actually because I have never actually SEEN this album. I don't even have a picture of the cover art. This MP3 I found somewhere ages ago; the band's official homepage is defunct and no distributor I can find sells any of their material anymore, so basically if you like this song and want to hear more, you're shit out of luck. I have a split they did with NIGRESCENT (UK) on tape that includes most of the tracks on the full-length (NIGRESCENT sucks though) but ripping another song from tape was too much work for me right now. Either way people really need to hear this one song because it is amazing.

 

[dill_the_devil]

basically if you like this song and want to hear more, you're shit out of luck.

You know what - I imagined at least one of Erik's recommendations would be along these lines.

EDIT: You bastard, it rules as well...

 

[Claws of Perdition]

This is good, if only it could be tracked down

 

[swizzlenuts]

Damn good song..

 

[circus_brimstone]

Yeah, I like this too - especially the vocals.

 

[Chromatose]

way too grim for my enjoyment.

Regardless, I'm impressed. Massively crushing.

 

[Papa Josh]

Sorry, the name Arkadia only brings to mind one thing... and that would be a side group that features members of Duran Duran, spelled Arcadia.