Debut album from Estonian Progressive Death Metal group PAEAN

"Being towards my own death, not only I am in agony, knowing my final and painful demise, - but also in total discord and suspense. I am in constant fight between my savage will of flesh and "high-consciousness" - the torment of all humanity.." 

Paean's debut album after (2011) Livium is conceptually a mixture of 20th century existential philosophy and psychoanalysis which is written in form of fiction, where the protagonist in order to end his sufferings less painfully, must give up human metaphysical ideals about the world, gods and the self - where the notion of "eternity" exists.


credits
released 03 April 2015 

Drums Recorded 2013 in Roundsound Studios by Keijo Koppel 
Recording, mix, master by Endrik Salak 
Artwork by Erik Hallik 
Layout design by Tarmo Kasearu

04. Interlude

05. Perdition

06. Fractal Rearrangement

07. Inner Fragments

08. Absolute Solitude

09. The Palace Burns

The northern lands are now under the Vanir's regime. Odin and his bretheren defeated, their mortal sons forced to be slaves and refugees. The age of livium has begun - an indestructible metal alloy consisting of living cells, empowered by Aesir souls collected inside Yggdrassil. The remaining survivors are now in an uprising against the Vanir's regin of power. The Vanir lords have come up with a plan to destroy the faith of all the remaining humans...

Decades after the fall of Asgard, Rasmund, a former loyal berserker of Odin, is trapped inside the abode of the dead, Helheim, unable to forget the sight of his brother being slain by the king of justice, Baldr'. Suddenly he can feel himself being torn from the illusion of death, valkyries, the servants of Vanir, are tearing away his soul, erasing his self, in order to create a puppet for a most outrageous plot.


Arist: Paean
Country: Estonia
Title: Livium
Lenght: 27 minutes (EP)


1. Illusive Imprisonment
2. Crimson Seas
3. Awakening
4. Impending Sacrifice / Fall Of The False Lords

01 Illusive Imprisonment

02 Crimson Seas

03 Awakening

04 Impending Sacrifice - Fall of the False Lords

Paean is an extreme progressive metal band from Tallinn, Estonia. Their music can be described as an intense journey through diverse soundscapes, deriving inspiration from death/doom/black metal and ethereal acoustic interludes adding to the grim atmosphere. Prosaic lyrical concepts are brought to life by Kevin’s powerful vocals. His bassplaying along with Magnus’s drumming forms the rhythmical foundation onto which Heiko and Endrik lay their crushing riffs and soothing harmonies.