''Oniriad'' is the third album by the

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Darzamat Darzamat is a Polish atmospheric black metal band, founded in 1995. After a few initial releases ( In Flames of Black Arts, Oniriad and the MCD In the Opium of Black Veil), the founding member Flauros (vocals) managed to gather musicians who hav ...

which was released in 2003 and was recorded at their own studio ''The Post Street Studio'' in

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. The album was self-produced and it took them nearly two years to prepare all the new material. The main reason why it took so long was that the band had been building their own studio. Five months work in ''The Post Street Studio'' has brought 42 minutes of music and nine compositions. The band had personnel issues too. By the time ''Oniriad'' was prepared to be released, Kowalski had left band and started his own project called Eclipse. Chudzicki known as Mastiphal musician, joined the group. Katarzyna Banaszak left Darzamat and had gone to USA. She had been replaced by Karolina Widera after she left.

Track listing

# "Into the Abyss of Forgotten Woods" – 4:40 # "The Longest Journey" – 5:23 # "Nameless" – 4:51 # "Beauty" – 5:29 # "Time" – 4:38 # "Moon Has Imprisoned Me in Her Shine" – 3:37 # "When the Dreams Died" – 4:39 # "Elegy" – 3:41 # "Soporific" – 5:11

Personnel

* Katarzyna "Kate" Banaszak –

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* Rafał "Flauros" Góral –

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* Szymon Struzek –

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, programming,

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* Krzysztof "Chris" Michalak –

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, mixing * Pawel Chudzicki –

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* Bartlomiej Krawczyk –

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