MY SILENT WAKE - Anatomy Of Melancholy

Rob from Bombworks Records posted this over at CMR..

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have it in our hands, the new album from My Silent Wake. To say that it upstages Shadow of Sorrow would be to understate the fact. Shadow is incredible but, MSW have outdone themselves this time around. This album is MASSIVE. It is a two disc set featuring a metal disc (disc one) that crushes! The sound is huge! HUGE!

The second disc is an acoustic disc featuring tons of instruments and will remind you of Dead Can Dance and the like. Disc two is beautiful and powerful. Amazing!

The total package clocks in at over an hour and a half. This is the biggest project that Bombworks Records has taken on thus far and we think that you will all be blown away!

Our goal is to have this out by the Elements of Rock festival which will be tough. We are doing our very best to have it available at the fest.

It rarely gets better than this!!!!!!!!!!

I freakin love MSW and I can't wait for the new disc

Hi lads! There is now a track online from the new album www.myspace.com/bombworksrecords (second song down on the music player)

Hope you enjoy it!

FEKKIN' 'ELL!!! It sounds awesome, Ian!

How soon can us peasants get ahold of it?

Seriously

It rarely gets better than MSW

this is going to be great

ghosts of athanasius wrote:

Seriously

It rarely gets better than MSW

this is going to be great

TrogDawn wrote:

FEKKIN' 'ELL!!! It sounds awesome, Ian!

How soon can us peasants get ahold of it?

Cheers everyone! The new cd will be available in about a week I reckon.

bigjtink wrote:

How lovely to see this again after all this time. Wish our real Tshirt looked as good as this beauty.

Doesn't it make you want to tour here?

I am crossing many appendages hoping I got my preorder done in time to be shipped last Saturday

ghosts of athanasius wrote:

Doesn't it make you want to tour here?

I am crossing many appendages hoping I got my preorder done in time to be shipped last Saturday

Cheers for getting the cd Tim. Hope we do get to tour there-would be amazing.

My preorder was in a week or so ago!

Now bring on the t-shirts!

Maybe we could start a poll

Would Tink sell more MSW shirts if he showed nipple?

Yes

No

We could do:
MSW standard tshirt
MSW girlie shirt
MSW Tink special peephole edition

silentwake wrote:

MSW Tink special peephole edition

Can we choose where the peephole goes?

TrogDawn wrote:

silentwake wrote:

MSW Tink special peephole edition

Can we choose where the peephole goes?

Absolutely. I think we should choose right here and now.

I vote for just left of the navel.

I recieved word from Bombworks that my pre order was sent out this last Saturday. Now the wait begins...

The only thing that dampens my enthusiasm is the slow postal service up here in Canada. I partook in the last Bombworks pre order with the Dagon & Lo Ruhamah discs, and they arrived a grand total of 24 days after the postmark said they were sent. That puts the MSW in my hands the week of May 5th. Hopefully, this will arrive a little quicker than that...

silentwake wrote:

TrogDawn wrote:

silentwake wrote:

MSW Tink special peephole edition

Can we choose where the peephole goes?

Absolutely. I think we should choose right here and now.

I vote for just left of the navel.

I say, just south of the taint!

metalken wrote:

I recieved word from Bombworks that my pre order was sent out this last Saturday. Now the wait begins...

Hmm...I didn't get any notification on my preorder...

To clear any confusion, my notification came through a return e-mail in which I was inquiring about my initial pre order with them. I was basically told that that order had indeed been sent and it was in the post offices hands, and that my, and everyone elses MSW orders that were in to them by the 13th were sent. You will more than likely have it by the end of this week, I on the other hand...sigh.

metalken wrote:

To clear any confusion, my notification came through a return e-mail in which I was inquiring about my initial pre order with them. I was basically told that that order had indeed been sent and it was in the post offices hands, and that my, and everyone elses MSW orders that were in to them by the 13th were sent. You will more than likely have it by the end of this week, I on the other hand...sigh.

Cheers for ordering Metalken.

TrogDawn wrote:

silentwake wrote:

TrogDawn wrote:

silentwake wrote:

MSW Tink special peephole edition

Can we choose where the peephole goes?

Absolutely. I think we should choose right here and now.

I vote for just left of the navel.

I say, just south of the taint!

Ok, we'll go with that then mate.

silentwake wrote:

TrogDawn wrote:

I say, just south of the taint!

Ok, we'll go with that then mate.

You sick, sick, bosstidd!

And who wil be paying for my design. I spent many seconds on that ya know.

I JUST GOT MY COPY IN THE MAIL TODAY!!!!!
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TrogDawn wrote:

I JUST GOT MY COPY IN THE MAIL TODAY!!!!!
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Grrr...sigh

metalken wrote:

Grrr...sigh

Don't worry, dood. Just like Dinah Moe Humm, she'll come eventually.

TrogDawn wrote:

I JUST GOT MY COPY IN THE MAIL TODAY!!!!!
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You got it before me.

Ay GO Knee

Ay GO Knee !!!!

oh well, soon I enough I suppose. I ordered mine on the 13th, late..... I hope this doesn't pooch my chances....

To make matters worse MSW are going to absolutely kill in Switzerland and I won't be there to enjoy the carnage (or beer)

OK, so...in Ashen Mortality Ian sings w/ growls...does he do mostly clean singing in MSW?

Ahhh I haven't heard the new disc yet so I am not certain

On the debut it is a healthy mix of both. On Century Sleeper there is very little growling

How many Ian Arkley projects are there?

Seventh Angel

Ashen Mortality

1 album with Paramecium

Metropolis

My Silent Wake

Century Sleeper (with James from Visionaire/Ikarian)

The Other Window

Yikes...that is one busy dude...

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

Yikes...that is one busy dude...

Ha ha, indeed! I sing mostly growls with MSW, but due to the nature of the new album having a lot of acoustic songs, I reckon it's half and half at least, if not slightly more clean.

In CS it is mainly clean as mentioned.

TOW is a band I play in but is not my project, it is the project of Alan Southorn, who also plays in MSW. I play guitar in this band and have done a few vocals, but this is mainly Alan's job.

Yeah, I've always maintained that MSW vox are pretty much half and half in the growl/clean mix. Ian is actually singlehandedly responsible for causing me to acquire a taste for growly death-type vox! Prior to hearing MSW, I despised that vocal style. But Ian does it so well (read my lips: a-nun-ci-ate!), that he has made a believer outta me!

TrogDawn wrote:

Yeah, I've always maintained that MSW vox are pretty much half and half in the growl/clean mix. Ian is actually singlehandedly responsible for causing me to acquire a taste for growly death-type vox! Prior to hearing MSW, I despised that vocal style. But Ian does it so well (read my lips: a-nun-ci-ate!), that he has made a believer outta me!

Cheers matey! I also hate some death vocals. I think that growling can be brilliant but sometimes it is just a monotone grating noise. I think it is like normal vocals, in that there is a huge range of sounds you can make and some vocalists suit your taste and others just don't.

Yes, exactly. I like to be able to hear something semi-intelligible or else I'm not really interested. Unless the words are purposely just "phonetic arrangements" and not actual words that is. But death vox as phonetic arrangements would still probably not be my cup of meat either...

I think their needs to be a resurrection of SA. I miss them. The new stuff rocks though.

etombdissonance wrote:

I think their needs to be a resurrection of SA. I miss them. The new stuff rocks though.

Thanks and ya never know what the future holds.

I finally got the new one. Melancholy indeed. It is making me very happy. Jaw dropping doom inspired music to lift my soul. This really should be huge.

etombdissonance wrote:

I finally got the new one. Melancholy indeed. It is making me very happy. Jaw dropping doom inspired music to lift my soul. This really should be huge.

Thanks for the kind comments-glad you are enjoying the album!

Rob from Bombworks got to meet Judas Priest and gave a copy of TAOM to Rob Halford!

Thats awesome!

SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

silentwake wrote:

Rob from Bombworks got to meet Judas Priest and gave a copy of TAOM to Rob Halford!

WOW!!!

Here's the link: http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=248641253&albumID=0&imageID=8905390

Spot the cd!

Well that settles it! Priest will now retire. Halford will hear that cd and say, "We're done here. The future of brilliant music is in good hands"

...and then you will get swallowed up in a pool of chai tea whilst the aliens land on the roof of my house and then you will wake up in a sweat babbling about doom aliens.

Again.