Acoustic Verses

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Acoustic Verses

Studio album by Green Carnation

Released

January 24, 2006 (North America)

Genre

Progressive rock
Acoustic

Length

43:32

Label

The End Records
Sublife Productions

Producer

Green Carnation

Professional reviews

Allmusic link
Metal Storm (9/10) link
The Metal Observer (9/10) link
Vampire Music (favorable) link
Metal Review (mixed) link
Metal-Rules link

Green Carnation chronology

The Burden is Mine... Alone
(2005)

Acoustic Verses
(2006)

A Night Under the Dam
(2007)

Acoustic Verses is the fifth full studio album by the Norwegian progressive metal band Green Carnation, released on January 24, 2006. The album is very different from the usual dark mood that the older releases have. This all out acoustic album has a lighter tone, and is a stylistic shift for the band. In some editions of the album, the bonus track; "Six Ribbons (Cover)" by Jon English is featured.

1 Track listing
2 Personnel
3 External links

[edit] Track listing

"Sweet Leaf" (Tchort) – 4:38
"The Burden is Mine... Alone" (Stein Roger Sordal) – 3:15
"Maybe?" (Kjetil Nordhus) – 5:02
"Alone" (Edgar Allan Poe, Tchort) – 3:43
"9-29-045" (Stein Roger Sordal) – 15:29
- "My Greater Cause, Part I"
- "Homecoming, Part II"
- "House of Cards, Part III"
"Childs Play Part 3" (Bernt Andrè Moen) – 3:32
"High Tide Waves" (Michael S. Krumins, Tommy Jackson) – 7:49
"Six Ribbons" (Jon English cover) − 3:10 (bonus track on some editions)

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Band

Stein Roger Sordal − bass guitar, EBow, lead vocals, backing vocals
Terje Vik Schei − Acoustic guitar
Kjetil Nordhus − lead vocals, backing vocals
Tommy Jackson − Drums, percussion
Michael Krumins − Acoustic guitar, Semi-acoustic guitar, theremin
Kenneth Silden − Piano, rhodes, Strings, mellotron

[edit] Guest musicians

Bjørn Harstad − Tremolo guitar, slide, guitar effects
Leif Wiese − Violin
Gustav Ekeberg − Viola
Bernt Andre Moen − Cello

[edit] Other credits

The lyrics on "Alone", are taken from a poem by Edgar Allan Poe and are the same Arcturus used on the track with the same name in the "La Masquerade Infernale" album.