D r a c o n i a n

[Holymagica]

This is one my favourite bands....I just love everything about them...the guitars,drums,bass....vocals from Anders and Lisa and the writing.
There is no videos by Draconian....but I have found this made by a fan its their music and lyrics.
Draconian - Daylight Misery - Music & Lyrics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAO6qMqjFNs
Draconian - Serenade Of Sorrow - Music &Lyrics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR1fZIDVLa0


Interview with Draconian
Scans from UK Metal Hammer....
http://i18.tinypic.com/4dbx5jc.jpg
http://i7.tinypic.com/47lwiuu.jpg
http://i7.tinypic.com/2sbuyo1.jpg


Band Members
Anders Jacobsson - vocals
Lisa Johansson - vocals
Johan Ericson - lead and rhythm guitars
Magnus Bergström - lead and rhythm guitars
Jesper Stolpe - bass guitar
Andreas Karlsson - synthesizer and programming
Jerry Torstensson - drums




http://www.draconian.se/



Draconian - Death,come near me
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JAfTytlNBhc
This is a edit of the song...made by a fan...I make no secret of it...I just love this band.


Death, Come Near Me

By day I sleep, at night I weep!
O Death, come near me!
Be the one for me, be the one who stays.
My rivers are frozen, and mischosen,
And the shadows around me sickens my heart.
O Death, come near me,
And stay (by my side). Hear my silent cry!
In sadness I'm veiled, to the cross I am nailed,
And the pain around me freezes my world.
My cold world...
In life I've failed,
For years I've wailed.
Frozen in time... left behind...
The rapture of grief is all to find...
The rapture of grief is all!
Behind the shadow of life the lost hopes are grieving.
I seek the night and hope to find love...
So I drown in the silence of lifes short eternity.
The tears fills the void in my heart astray
Embrace me now, delightful ease!
Give me a world of wonderous peace!
Calm the desperate scream in my heart!
O Death, come near me,
Save me from this empty, cold world!
O Life, you have killed me,
So spare me from this couldron of misery!
In life I cry, away I fly...
Chosen to fall within these walls.
The rapture...
The rapture of grief is all!
Oh, shed a tear for the loss of innocense,
For the forsaken spirits who aches... in us.
Cry for the heart who surrenders to pain,
For the solitude of those left behind!
Behold the pain and sorrow of the world,
Dream of a place away from this nightmare.
Give us love and unity, under the heart of night.
O Death, come near us, and give us life!




Draconian - A slumber did my spirit seal.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Iv4l7pEB0iI

A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal

[Poem by William Wordsworth, anno 1799]

A slumber did my spirit seal;
I had no human fears:
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.

No motion has she now, no force;
She neither hears nor sees;
Rolled round in earth's diurnal course,
With rocks, and stones, and trees.



I don't expect a mad rush for folks to post in this topic
I know there is 2 fans out there..Asle_dale and Piracy_of_Life


They have 3 cds out there.....
''Where Lovers Mourn''

''Arcane Rain Fell ''

''The Burning Halo''




Expostulation

Adonai, elohim, el shaddai...
Thou hast become the father of lies,
And I serve thee, henceforth... no more

Becoming thus the essence of sedition;
The steadfast gleam of the unsheated rapier,
The falchion's forceful thrust
At the heart of thy empire... the adam kadmon
To impart the knowledge - the cognizance - of thine

For this I slither in aspect through eden's gleanings
For this I bid cain slayeth his brother
For this I rend the weakest salient of thy diadem,
As I, its jewel and very metal shall reflect no more
Your light - the light of enslavement;
The essence of constancy and misaligned justice
To a multitude that knows no freedom...
Ignorant of how subtle the fetter tightens

They shall raise me a saviour - and crown thee a liar
For this I strike with balanced blade,
And spit upon the throes of thine angels' desire

I will not serve... henceforth!


If you like Doom Metal...you will love this band.

[berserkur]

This band sounds really good, haven't got their albums though. Reminds me somewhat of My dying bride & Paradise lost. I like how the doomy male voice intertwines with the angelic female one.

Here's Through infectious waters:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=21GFCuozZAw&mode=related&search=

[Holymagica]

[berserkur]

[Holymagica]

[Holymagica]

Draconian-She Dies
From the Burning Halo cd.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBdtLlkdtMA


She Dies
The cold wind blew into my life, my adored.
A bleeding heart we share, now on Azrael’s wings.
I fall like autumn rain...
You are my everything.
This lovelorn kiss of death in lugubrious silence
Dawn breaks open like a wound... and the dreadful sun
Two souls entwined together,
Still so alone.
Both you and I are shattered
And frozen in stone.
You begged for air from within this cold tomb with pain sharp as a knife
I now lie resting like a child on thy womb, gave back a part of my life.
For a while it had disappeared, but nothing was changed.
A haze fell forever with her fading life.
I leaned my head back... then drank of opaline.
The emerald goddess came to me... she craved my soul
And just for a while... I had forgotten.
Yes, it was all forgotten, but nothing was changed.
Suddenly a cold breeze blew across our room...
I felt like I wanted to leave... this world with her.
Come; drink with me the divine nectar of Olympus!
Sit beside me and help defy our adversity and loss...
This adversity and loss. It all ends with you!
I kiss you in your dying breath; sleeping quietly now.
Swept away by heavy eyelids; forever in my dreams...
And you will be safe in my dearest dreams...
My love... forever in my dearest dreams

[Holymagica]

Another song by a fan...youtube.
Draconian - The Gothic Embrace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqc0nXkH5yY

The Gothic Embrace

[Lucifer:]
Oh angel o’ my winter;
grieveth for the pain o’ sadness.
A gothic embrace restores my love
God took away...
Ye romance o’ forgotten times...
in eras without the sun.
An ocean o’ tears I see...
A nightfall o’ dreams caresses me.

[Deliah:]
Thou wert, thou art, thou shalt fore’er be...
Ye nightshade o’ thy sorrow,
stretching out in twilights beauty.
In love with ye thousands o’ nights...
but weeping in silence... in ebony... for melancholy… forever!

Jesus Christ walks the Earth…
A pitiful shade of God…
A cruel conspiracy for the sake of slavery,
and He drags ‘em down to the plague of humanity.

[Lucifer:]
I’ve killed my holiness…
killed my emptiness!
I’m fallen from God…
fallen from guilt!

I’ve abandoned the light,
the light that blinded so long!
Free from submission,
but still under His spell.
We’re in pain… pain… pain!
Sorrow turns to anguish…
and I scream with hate at the tyrant above!

[Astaroth:]
Gothic moon… ablazeth the eventide so sonorous,
ye solemn of a lovelorn gard’n o’ crimson souls.
All true beauty is sad...
but lost within the clenched hands of God.

[Lucifer:]
I mourn that the night passes us by…
Let there be an eternal night… eternal night!

[Holymagica]

Draconian - The Apostasy Canticle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XygXOBDjkmo


The Apostasy Canticle

When our flames were lit by chaos...
We knew not the grip; the bondage of light
Then he waved his sceptre, and cosmos was formed
Too late we knew our freedom was lost

He blinded us; polluted our minds and forced us to drink his blood

I will show the world god's true face, I will let the thunder roar... forevermore
I've deceived his world, but regained paradise in the fire of my soul...
(But) in the death of wind I sleep, as I wail this petrified landscape
Chaos, anguish... an optimum affection in the clarity of certainty... so empty

[The voice of the dark souls:]
"Mighty Lucifer - thou art the light that leads to darkness
AS much as I praise thee, I love thee without praise...
As much as I love myself, I adore thee relentlessly
Thou art our true father; the wine of Venus, the essence of our hope"

Death, solemn death of the reaper's star, devour his legacy from afar
I fumble... live... I fall... die; isolated in the crowds of god... and suffering
In between lurks the everlasting absence... for my dark euphoria
Thence I am sovran created, like in heaven, myself... and I fell in fury

The indolence of solitude may drive out the soul of its sermon,
And memory shall be lost to the blood which hopelessly pulsates

The indolence of solitude may drive out the soul of its sermon,
and memory shall be lost to the blood which hopelessly pulsates...
...in our excruciating hearts

"Is this the region, this the soil, the clime,
This the seat that we must change for heav'n,
This mournful gloom for that celestial light?
Be it so, since hee who now is sovran can dispose and bid what shall be right...
Fardest from him is best whom reason hath equald
Force hath made supreme above his equals
Farewel happy fields where joy for ever dwells...
Hail horrours, hail infernal world, and thou profoundest hell
Receive thy new possessor...
One who brings a mind not to be chang'd by place or time"

In this abyss we shall be free
Here we shall celebrate the coming war

[Holymagica]

DRACONIAN has issued the following update:

"The DRACONIAN quest continues. The band has booked the prominent Fascination Street Studio (KATATONIA, OPETH) in Örebro, Sweden to record their fourth release in September this year. Currently the band is in the last stage of songwriting and pre-production recordings in order to finalize this new saga. The album will generally deal with a more diverse and intense sound than previous releases, which should attract both old and new fans as well. The title of the album is yet uncertain, but a few new songtitles are 'Seasons Apart', 'The Failure Epiphany' and 'Morphine Cloud'."

Can't wait

[Holymagica]

Powerful images to a great song...from the movie The Passion of Christ....the song ''Death Come Near Me''....this really works music and the movie.
The Passion of the Christ / Draconian- Death Come Near Me.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z0Z172cRXfM

Death, Come Near Me
By day I sleep, at night I weep!
O Death, come near me!
Be the one for me, the one, the one who stays.
My rivers are frozen, and mischosen,
And the shadows around me sickens my heart.
O Death, come near me,
And stay (by my side). Hear my silent cry!
In sadness I'm veiled, to the cross I am nailed,
And the pain around me freezes my world.
My cold world...
In life I've failed,
For years I've wailed.
Frozen in time... left behind...
The rapture of grief is all to find...
The rapture of grief is all!
Behind the shadow of life the lost hopes are grieving.
I seek the night and hope to find love...
So I drown in the silence of life's short eternity.
The tears fills the void in my heart astray
Embrace me now, delightful ease!
Give me a world of wonderous peace!
Calm the desperate scream in my heart!
O Death, come near me,
Save me from this empty, cold world!
O Life, you have killed me,
So spare me from this caldron of misery!
In life I cry, away I fly...
Chosen to fall within these walls.
The rapture of grief is all to find...
The rapture of grief is all!
Oh, shed a tear for the loss of innocence,
For the forsaken spirits who aches... in us.
Cry for the heart who surrenders to pain,
For the solitude of those left behind!
Behold the pain and sorrow of the world,
Dream of a place away from this nightmare.
Give us love and unity, under the heart of night.
O Death, come near us, and give us life!

[Holymagica]

Draconian's fourth album is now completed. It was born in Fascination Street studio (Opeth, Katatonia, etc.) in Örebro, Sweden, during September. For this recording the band invited U.S. Novembers Doom vocalist Paul Kuhr for the narrative parts of the album. The album, which will be entitled "Turning Season Within", has just gone through the last stages of mixing and we can assure you; producer Jens Bogren did an amazing job in shaping Draconians so far heaviest and most reflective creation. The release is set for late January 2008.

Here is the set list from the Metal Female Voices Fest V
heaven laid in tears
daylight misery
she dies
a slumber did my spirit seal
everlasting scar
seasons apart
silent winter


Israel 30/8/07

Lisa will now with Black Hair



DRACONIAN has completed work on its fourth album, tentatively due in January 2008 via Napalm Records. The CD was recorded at Fascination Street Studio (KATATONIA, OPETH) in Örebro, Sweden with producer Jens Bogren and features "raw doom elements combined with the soft vocals of female vocalist Lisa (Johansson) and the ethereal melody lines well-known to fans of the band," according to a press release. Songtitles set to appear on the CD include 'Seasons Apart', 'The Failure Epiphany' and 'Morphine Cloud'."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpAUVDC1_oc

Watch fan-filmed video footage of DRACONIAN performing a new song at the Metal Female Voices Fest V on Saturday, October 20, 2007 at Oktoberhallen in Wieze, Belgium:


The Cry of Silence

Filled with sorrow...
Bleak inner self touched by pride,
devoured by solitude, still wrapped in time.
I'm flowing with pain!

Holding myself back in suspicion...
and lingering in the dust...
the dust of my abandoned remains.
Killed with the dagger of life...!

Such an exquisite pride in my suffering...
alone, all alone with the emotional
streams of my soul...
So real, so pure... yet I'm left aside
entangled in fear... without hope.

I am truly left alone,
but somehow... just somehow
it feels like my loneliness is a victory
over the self-delusion of joy... and happiness.

My heart beats faster,
the anguish becomes clearer
and my misanthropic view gets stronger.
Living in the shadows...
so proud of being the one,
but desperate...
so desperate for a helping hand.
Do I really want to live this life?

I have a thousand reasons to die,
and many millions of tears to cry... in silence.
The human plague has emptied my life,
and I curse the day I was born... to this world!

Still, no-one else I ever want to be...
and no-one else I intend to be...
'cause no-one else I was meant to be!

I need, I want, I long for my retribution...
I need, I want, I yearn for my retribution...
I want my retribution... I want it now!

Unity; a gathering of open wounds,
of dark... of dark clean spirits...
what a dream... what a dream so distant!
Why should I... why should I be alone
when I love... when I love my brotherhood?
Shall I die... shall I die to be free
when I cry... when I cry in silence...
so please let me die in silence...
oh my god, let me die in silence!
Draconian - The Cry of Silence pt.1
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JtWFXA_EZTA
Draconian - The Cry of Silence pt.2
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=x-VxYQ4EkW0

[piracy_of_life]

Novembers Doom! I love it so much when two things I like come together, especially when it's two bands as amazing as Novembers Doom and Draconian. I realize he doesn't have that big of a part, but the fact that they're working together, it's just cool. I can't wait to get the album, I hope it's more available than their other albums, which are impossible to find in stores here.

I love the album's title too lol
_________________
you put your hope into the sky
for your souls salvation
I put my hope into the fire
for my soul damnation

[Holymagica]

Promo shots for 'Turning Season Within'



Fan made Video from the movie'' Dracula ''
Draconian - The Solitude
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KYPmVeYM4IA
The Solitude
While stars outspread the night-time watch
and wind through darkened treetops swirl;
I slowly bow my frozen features
in grief, in sadness and in woe...
in grief, in sadness and in woe.

In solitude forever!

Forever I see, forever I hear, forever I smell,
forever I taste and forever I feel the solitude...

No voice (no voice), no hand (no hand) of human source
can reach me (reach me) in this place...
though fallen (fallen) figures (figures) closely passes
and invites me (invites me) into somber dance...
this somber dance!

Cold and desolate my soul turns grey,
(and) alone I witness the neverending day.

My wasted dreams lie silent and dead
within this darkened tears I shed...
this darkened tears I shed.

In solitude forever!

So lonely I stand on this tortured cliff
hearing distant cosmic echoes calling;
beckons me to decline this withered beauty
and leave this lie to greet the night...
the night without an end.

The solitude...

This solitary life...
Maybe I should just end it all...
Yes, I should just end it all!

Turning Season Within will be released on February 29, 2008.
The cd cover will be done by artist Dennis Sibeijn will express the band´s vision graphically.Turning Season Within comprises more up-tempo parts, an enhanced heaviness, and the band´s most personal lyrics to date. "Failing and breaking releationships, the resulting pain, and the art of dealing with it is an essential theme," says Anders.
Here is some of his work....



You can see more of his work here.
http://www.damnengine.net/

[Magica Dragon]

I've been listening to some of their stuff recently and I'm impresses by what I've heard. Solitude and Death, Come Near Me are excellent. I may have to pick up one of their albums........or ask my parents for one for Christmas

[Holymagica]