Tragedies (album)

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Tragedies
Studio album by
Released1995
Genre
Length58:39 (Tragedies)
138:56 (with Tristesse)
Label[1]
Firebox Records (rerelease)
Funeral chronology

(1994)
Tragedies
(1995)
In Fields of Pestilent Grief
(2002)

Tragedies is the first full-length album by the Norwegian funeral doom/death metal band Funeral. Track one of the album, "Taarene" is sung in Norwegian, while the other four tracks are sung in English. The album contains three original tracks and two from the demo.[2] It was originally released through , then rereleased through Firebox Records, along with the and three bonus tracks. In 1994, shortly before the release of this album, Funeral recruited a female vocalist named . Funeral was one of the first doom metal bands to do so. Late in 1995, Funeral would part ways with Snyen.[3] Tragedies was one of the albums that helped form the subgenre of funeral doom.[4]

Track listing[]

No.TitleLength
1."Taarene"12:25
2."Under Ebony Shades"13:32
3."Demise"8:43
4."When Nightfall Clasps"14:20
5."Moment in Black"9:39
Total length:58:39

Rereleased track listing[]

Disc 1 (Tragedies)[]

No.TitleLength
1."Taarene"12:25
2."Under Ebony Shades"13:32
3."Demise"8:43
4."When Nightfall Clasps"14:20
5."Moment in Black"9:39
6."Forlorn" (bonus track[citation needed])11:39
Total length:70:18

Disc 2 (Tristesse)[]

No.TitleLength
1."Thoughts of Tranquility"9:25
2."A Poem for the Dead"18:20
3."Yearning for Heaven"10:20
4."Heartache" (bonus track)13:36
5."Dying (Together as One)" (bonus track)16:57
Total length:68:38

References[]

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