- rock, heavy metal, symphonic rock
- 75 min
- 17 tracks
- Transmission Records
Prison of Desire is the debut album by Dutch symphonic metal band After Forever. It was released on 21 April 2000 by Transmission Records. The album contains the first four installments of The Embrace That Smothers, a collection of songs by Mark Jansen which deals with the influence and distortion of religion in human society. This theme was carried over to the Epica albums The Phantom Agony and The Divine Conspiracy.
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Grave, classical in form, spare and earnest.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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Tracks
- 1Mea Culpa1:59
- 2Leaden Legacy5:11
- 3Semblance of Confusion4:09
- 4Black Tomb6:30
- 5Follow in the Cry4:07
- 6Silence From Afar5:51
- 7Inimical Chimera5:01
- 8Tortuous Threnody6:14
- 9Yield to Temptation5:54
- 10Ephemeral3:06
- 11Beyond Me6:24
- 12Wings of Illusion7:24
- 13Mea Culpa (instrumental version)2:04
- 14Mea Culpa (a-Capella version)1:51
- 15Semblance of Confusion (instrumental version)4:09
- 16Follow in the Cry (instrumental version)4:05
- 17Follow in the Cry (a-Capella)1:20
17 tracks, 75 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- After Forever
- Label
- Transmission Records
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- XW
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