Dawnbearer
Label | Svart Records – SVR045CD |
Format | CD, Album, Reissue |
Barcode | 6430077094444 |
Country | Finland |
Released | 14 May 2021 |
Genre | Folk, World, & Country |
Style | Folk |
Reissue! Hexvessel's debut album 'Dawnbearer' was released worldwide in 2011 on Svart Records and is considered to be an influential classic record of the modern "occult rock" revival. Highly popular with Hexvessel fans and unique in their catalogue, featuring guitars by Andrew McIvor (Code), violin work of Daniel Pioro (who works on Paul Thomas Anderson's soundtracks with Jonny Greenwood from Radiohead), the early production work of Jaime Gomez Arellano (Ghost, Paradise Lost), and guest vocals from Carl Michael Eide (Virus, Ved Buens Ende, Aura Noir). "Think Woven Hand, haunted '60s/'70s pastoral folk, or a darker riff on Midlake. Mat McNerney covers Clive Palmer's post-Incredible String Band crew C.O.B. and successfully transforms and darkens Paul Simon's 'Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes.' He quotes Crowley, Truman Capote, Isaac Babel, etc. Unlike black metal-ready folk, this is folk by a talented, ambitious black metal musician. But the energy's there. As is the atmosphere." ~Stereogum.
1 | Invocation Summoning | 2:53 |
2 | Heart Of The Mind World | 2:25 |
3 | Scarlet Cassocks | 2:32 |
4 | The Death Knell Tolls | 4:01 |
5 | A Cabalist Under The Gallows | 3:00 |
6 | I Am The Ritual | 4:57 |
7 | Radiant Transcendent | 5:28 |
8 | Wayward Confessor | 3:14 |
9 | Diamonds | 2:35 |
10 | A Stranger's Grave | 3:48 |
11 | Conversations With Rosa | 3:04 |
12 | The Tunnel At The End Of The Light | 4:40 |
13 | Solomon's Song | 3:26 |
14 | Wychwood Shrine | 4:01 |
15 | Oracle Of The Starlit Dawn | 4:42 |
Arranged By [Additional Arrangements By] – Jaime Gomez Arellano
Arranged By [Additional Arrangements By] – Mathew McNerney
Arranged By [Guitars], Recorded By – Andrew McIvor
Artwork – Albert Witchfinder
Bandoneon – Fredrik W. Sørensen (4, 5, 12)
Double Bass [Upright Bass] – Rigmor Hanken (4, 5, 12)
Drums – Andreas Voie Juliebø (4, 5, 12)
Harmonium, Gong, Keyboards, Dulcimer, Zither, Psaltery, Bells, Drums, Percussion [Additional] – Jaime Gomez Arellano
Layout – M
Layout – M
Liner Notes [Foreword] – Kvohst
Mandolin, Banjo – Kjartan Magerøy Aarseth (4, 5, 12)
Mixed By, Mastered By – Jaime Gomez Arellano
Photography By – Marja Konttinen
Photography By – Paul Takahashi
Photography By – Valtteri Arino
Producer – Jaime Gomez Arellano
Producer – Mathew McNerney
Recorded By – Andreas Voie Juliebø (4, 5, 12)
Recorded By – Fredrik Wiig Sørensen (4, 5, 12)
Recorded By [Vocals], Engineer [Vocals] – J-P Cavonius
Violin, Keyboards, Gong – Daniel Quill
Vocals [Additional] – Marja Konttinen
Vocals [Guest] – Carl-Michael Eide (12)
Voice, Acoustic Guitar [Additional], Electric Guitar [Additional], Gong, Handclaps – Mathew Khvost McNerney
Written-By – Andrew McIvor (6)
Written-By – C.O.B. (13)
Written-By – Mathew McNerney (1 to 5, 7, 8, 10 to 12, 14, 15)
Written-By – Paul Simon (9)
Written-By [Additional Parts] – Mathew McNerney (6)
Written-By [Additional Parts], Arranged By – Andrew McIvor (1 to 5, 7, 8, 10 to 12, 14, 15)
Written-By [Violins], Arranged By [Violins] – Daniel Quill