''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 music, 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 ...

band Ava Inferi. 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, pa ...

. "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), also known by his stage name Blasphemer, is a Norwegian musician best known as the former guitarist and songwriter of black metal band Mayhem (band), Mayhem. He took his stage name from a Sodom (band), Sodom ...

- electric and clean

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

s, effects * Jaime S. Ferreira -

bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Wood * Bass or basswood, the wood of the tilia americana tree Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in th ...

* 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 ...

s and

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

Session musicians

* Miguel Do Vale -

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

on 1, 2 * Nuno Roberto -

Portuguese guitar The Portuguese guitar (, ) is a plucked string instrument with twelve steel strings, strung in six courses of two strings. It is one of the few musical instruments that still uses watch-key or Preston tuners. It is iconically associated with t ...

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