''Burdens'' is a debut album of the Portuguese

gothic metal Gothic metal (or goth metal) is a fusion genre combining the aggression of heavy metal with the dark atmospheres of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy met ...

band

Ava Inferi Ava Inferi was a musical group formed in Almada, Portugal, by Norwegian guitarist and songwriter Rune Eriksen (a.k.a. Blasphemer, Mayhem (band), Mayhem). Their debut album, ''Burdens (Ava Inferi album), Burdens'', was released in January 2006. ...

. It was released in January 2006 by

Season of Mist Season of Mist is an independent record label and record distributor with subsidiaries in France and the United States. The record label was founded in 1996 by Michael S. Berberian in Marseille, France. From the start releasing black metal, pag ...

. "The title describes the collective soul of the band, with its clear roots referring to the past and its troubled paths. Other titles included on this album are ..rooted in the essences of pain and fear, as well as the eerie and the unknown" .

Track listing

# "Ava Inferi" – 4:19 # "The Shrine" – 0:33 # "A Glimpse of Sanity" – 7:06 # "The Wings of Emptiness" – 5:35 # "Sinisters" – 9:36 # "Vultos" – 4:50 # "Fate of Mountains" – 8:38

Credits

Band members

Carmen Susana Simões Carmen Susana Simões (born 8 March 1973, in Lisbon, Portugal) is a Portuguese singer and lyricist of darkwave and gothic music, characterized by a melancholic mezzo-soprano voice. Carmen began her musical career in local Gothic rock bands know ...

— vocals *

Rune Eriksen Rune Eriksen (born 13 January 1975) is a Norwegian Spellemann award-winning musician and composer. He is best known as the former guitarist in the black metal band Mayhem under the stage name Blasphemer, which he took from a Sodom song. He jo ...

- electric and clean

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

s, effects * Jaime S. Ferreira - bass * João Samora (Bandido) -

drum The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a she ...

s and

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

Session musicians

* Miguel Do Vale -

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

on 1, 2 * Nuno Roberto -

Portuguese guitar The Portuguese guitar or Portuguese guitarra ( pt, guitarra portuguesa, ) is a plucked string instrument with twelve steel strings, strung in six course (music), courses of two strings. It is one of the few musical instruments that still uses wat ...

on 5, acoustic rhythm on 7

Production

* Piano recorded at My Home Your Tomb Studio, Almada, Portugal. * Everything else recorded between June 20 - July 8, 2005 at Top Room Studio, Norway. * Mixed between July 12–18, 2005 by Börge Finstad (BBF) and Rune Eriksen. * All songs by Rune Eriksen, lyrics by Carmen Susana Simões.

Other

* Artworks by Nuno Roberto and João Monteiro.

References

External links

Interview with Ava Inferi
2006 debut albums Ava Inferi albums Season of Mist albums {{2000s-metal-album-stub