Amid Its Hallowed Mirth Explained

Amid Its Hallowed Mirth
Type:	studio
Artist:	Novembers Doom
Cover:	Amiditshallowed.jpg
Released:	February 10, 1995
Recorded:	1993–1994
Genre:	Death-doom
Label:	Avantgarde Music
Producer:	Novembers Doom
Next Title:	Of Sculptured Ivy and Stone Flowers
Next Year:	1999

Amid Its Hallowed Mirth is the first studio album by the American death-doom band Novembers Doom. It was originally released in 1995 on Avantgarde Music, and later re-released in 2001 with a different cover and different track listing on Dark Symphonies and in 2008, it remastered format with different artwork and bonus tracks on The End Records.

Track listing

• The bonus tracks 10-11 are taken from the 1995 Her Tears Drop demo.
• The bonus tracks 12-15 are taken from the 1992 Scabs demo by the pre-Novembers Doom band called Laceration.

Personnel

• Paul Kuhr – vocals
• Steve Nicholson – guitars, bass
• Joe Hernandez – drums
• Cathy Jo Hejna – vocals

Additional personnel and staff

• Emmett Hall - drums on "Nothing Earthly Save the Thrill" and "Seasons of Frost"
• Jim Bresnhan - guitars on "Nothing Earthly Save the Thrill" and "Seasons of Frost"
• Jim Harvey - producer, engineering
• Ron Reid - producer, engineering
• Chris Wisco - mastering
• Mike Lager- Electric and Double Bass on "Sadness Reigns" and "A Dirge of Sorrow." Lager also played bass on tracks

"Scarification," "Winter Solstice," "Mammaliferous Earth," and "Crown of Thorns"Unofficially we believe this to be the first bowed double bass in all of metal. It was revolutionary at the time in 1992-1995.

External links

• • The End Records 2008 Reissue Announcement