Empyrium

Empyrium is a German symphonic folk/doom metal and (later) neofolk/dark folk band.

Band's history

Empyrium was founded in 1994 by Markus Stock (mostly using the pseudonym Ulf Theodor Schwadorf) and Andreas Bach, but later many other participated.

The band draws inspiration from nature as some of the album titles reveal. Consequently, Empyrium are often referred to as a dark folk or apocalyptic folk band, expressing in their music (most conspicuously in the last two albums) sentiments akin to those expressed by some other 'legislators' of the genre, as Forseti, Orplid, and Ulver (Kveldssanger). Connoisseurs of dark folk will mention that many of Empyrium's compositions are true representatives of the genre, as, for instance, Dying Brokenhearted, The Shepherd and the Maiden Ghost ("Where At Night..."), Heimwärts, Waldpoesie, Die Schwäne im Schilf ("Weiland"). Intricately woven and always impregnated with an exquisite wistfulness or profound, remorseful sadness (Dying Brokenhearted), these compositions may be regarded as a manifesto of the dark-folkloristic gloomy and pantheistic Weltanschauung. The lyrics are mostly in English, though in Weiland only German is performed. Like the Norwegian black metal band Burzum, Empyrium also used Theodor Kittelsen's drawing on one of their album covers (Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays).

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ALBUMS

The Turn of the Tides released: 2014
Bochum | Christuskirche | 2012 released: 2013
Into the Pantheon released: 2013
A Retrospective... released: 2006
Weiland released: 2002
Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays released: 2002
A Wintersunset... released: 2002
Songs of Moors & Misty Fields released: 1997

The Turn of the Tides

Released 2014

Saviour
Dead Winter Ways
In the Gutter of This Spring
The Days Before the Fall
We Are Alone
With the Current Into Grey
The Turn of the Tides

Bochum | Christuskirche | 2012

Released 2013

The Days Before the Fall
The Franconian Woods in Winter’s Silence
Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays
Heimwärts
Mourners
Die Schwäne im Schilf
Dead Winter Ways
Der Weiher
Many Moons Ago…
Das blau-kristallne Kämmerlein

Into the Pantheon

Released 2013

Intro
The Days Before the Fall
The Franconian Woods in Winter's Silence
Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays
Heimwärts
Mourners
Die Schwäne im Schilf
Dead Winter Ways
Der Weiher
Many Moons Ago
Das blau-kristallne Kämmerlein

A Retrospective...

Released 2006

Introduction: Astrum Luciferi
Midnight, Moonlight and a Dark Romance
My Nocturnal Queen
Outroduction

Weiland

Released 2002

Kein Hirtenfeuer glimmt mehr
Heimwärts
Nebel
Fortgang
A Cappella
Nachhall
Waldpoesie
Die Schwäne im Schilf
Am Wasserfall
Fossegrim
Der Nix
Das blau-kristallne Kämmerlein

Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays

Released 2002

Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays
Dying Brokenhearted
The Shepherd and the Maiden Ghost
The Sad Song of the Wind
Wehmut
A Pastoral Theme
Abendrot
Many Moons Ago...
When Shadows Grow Longer 99

A Wintersunset...

Released 2002

Moonromanticism
Under Dreamskies
The Franconian Woods in Winter's Silence
The Yearning
Autumn Grey Views
Ordain'd to Thee
A Gentle Grieving Farewell Kiss

Songs of Moors & Misty Fields

Released 1997

When Shadows Grow Longer
The Blue Mists of Night
Mourners
Ode to Melancholy
Lover's Grief
The Ensemble of Silence

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A Wintersunset...

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Many Moons Ago

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Autumn Grey Views

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The Franconian Woods In Winter's Silence

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Songs of Moors and Misty Fields

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The Blue Mists Of Night

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When Shadows Grow Longer

by Empyrium
The Days Before The Fall

by Empyrium
Ode To Melancholy

by Empyrium
The Yearning

by Empyrium
The Ensemble Of Silence

by Empyrium
Lover's Grief

by Empyrium
Mourners

by Empyrium
Heidestimmung: Fortgang

by Empyrium
Under Dreamskies

by Empyrium
Ordain'd To Thee

by Empyrium
Wassergeister: Waldpoesie

by Empyrium
The Shepherd And The Maiden Ghost

by Empyrium
The Sad Song Of The Wind

by Empyrium
Where At Night The Wood Grouse Plays

by Empyrium
Into the Pantheon

by Empyrium

A Wintersunset...

by: Empyrium

Lifeless they fall apart
Golden as our precious art
My love sinks into a thick grey veil of mist
Trees, leafless trees, the epitaph of the sun
What once was green presents now grey and trist
A gloomy grave, a foreseen death, a symbol for our pain
Drowned in a flood of autumn rain
Sillouettes of light astray somewhere in the clouds
Ravens traverse, involving withering shrouds