Set Sail to Mystery

Set Sail to Mystery
Studio album by The Vision Bleak
Released April 2, 2010 (Germany)
April 5, 2010 (Europe)
May 4, 2010 (North America)
Recorded Recorded and mixed at Klangschmiede Studio E, Germany
Genre Gothic metal, Horror Punk
Length 44:46
Label Prophecy Productions
The Vision Bleak chronology
The Wolves Go Hunt Their Prey
(2007)		 Set Sail to Mystery
(2010)

Set Sail to Mystery is the fourth album of German Gothic Metal band The Vision Bleak. It was released in April, 2010 in Europe, and in May 2010 in North America.

The song "The Foul Within" is inspired by the 1973 horror film The Exorcist. Other tracks were inspired by the poetry of Lord Byron and Heinrich Heine and texts by Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith. "I Dined with the Swans" references the German serial killer Peter Kürten, dubbed the "Vampire of Düsseldorf" in the 1920s.[1]

Contents

Reviews

The German Sonic Seducer lauded the album's mix of hardness and atmosphere and noted the theatrical style that is typical of The Vision Bleak.[1]

Track listing

  1. "A Curse of the Grandest Kind" – 3:55
  2. "Descend into Maelstrom" – 5:26
  3. "I Dined with the Swans" – 4:20
  4. "A Romance with the Grave" – 5:50
  5. "The Outsider" – 5:11
  6. "Mother Nothingness (The Triumph of Ubbo Sathla)" – 8:11
  7. "The Foul Within" – 5:59
  8. "He who Paints the Black of Night" – 5:54

Bonus CD

  1. "I Dined with the Swans" (with Niklas Kvarforth)
  2. "By the Misery of Fate he was Haunted" (Master's Hammer cover)
  3. "Descend into Maelstrom" (classical version)
  4. "Mother Nothingness" (classical version)
  5. "The foul within" (classical version)
  6. "I Dined with the Swans" (piano version)
  7. "A Farewell at Sea" (classical version)

References

  1. ^ a b Zymolka, Yvonne. "The Vision Bleak — Tod überm Schwanensee" (in German). Sonic Seducer 17 (4-2010).