Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Few metal bands have traversed as many genres and soundscapes as Norway’s Green Carnation have. From their beginnings as a blackened doom project, to their venture into hard rock on The Quiet Offspring, to their unplugged offering of original material (and two covers) that was The Acoustic Verses, Green Carnation have found their happy place in the quite unhappy world of progressive doom, a sound they first explored over twenty years ago on the album many consider to be their masterwork, Light of Day, Day of Darkness. On A Dark Poem, Part 1: The Shores of Melancholia, their second proper album since their unexpected reformation in 2014, Green Carnation continues refining their prog-doom identity while honoring the ground they’ve covered during their adventurous career.
Few metal bands have traversed as many genres and soundscapes as Norway’s Green Carnation have. From their beginnings as a blackened doom project, to their venture into hard rock on The Quiet Offspring, to their unplugged offering of original material (and two covers) that was The Acoustic Verses, Green Carnation have found their happy place in the quite unhappy world of progressive doom, a sound they first explored over twenty years ago on the album many consider to be their masterwork, Light of Day, Day of Darkness. On A Dark Poem, Part 1: The Shores of Melancholia, their second proper album since their unexpected reformation in 2014, Green Carnation continues refining their prog-doom identity while honoring the ground they’ve covered during their adventurous career.
