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‘Forever Scarlet Passion‘ was the first album released by Dutch Doomsters CELESTIAL SEASON far away in 1993. This great band was hailed as one of the pioneers of Doom / Death Metal alongside ANATHEMA, PARADISE LOST & MY DYING BRIDE. Now and 19 years later, Ishtadeva Vinyl Productions presents, for the first time on vinyl, this unique masterpiece full of melancholy and desperation. The first edition was released back in August which has now nearly sold out, and the second edition has maintained the original cover but the back cover and inserts have been reworked, details of the two pressings are below.
When your peers are iconic doom bands like Paradise Lost, Anathema and My Dying Bride, it is understandable if you find yourself a little lost in the shuffle. That’s how I feel Dutch doom icons Celestial Season have been over the years; the lost fourth member of the Peaceville Three left to their own devices for thirty years of melancholic death/doom, punctuated by a more stoner doom detour in the mid part of their career. ‘Forever Scarlet Passion’ is their debut record, a record that has reached its 30th birthday this month and one that has flown almost criminally under the radar for far too long. Those of us who know, we know, but maybe it is time for a whole new generation to discover this gem. Much of ‘Forever Scarlet Passion’ will be familiar to you if you are a fan of classic English doom, the likes of My Dying Bride weighing heavily on the sound of Celestial Season. But, unlike the MDB of that era, Celestial Season like to spread the mournful atmospherics throughout the whole record, rather than concentrated in a couple of tracks. The weeping riffs of ‘In Sweet Bitterness/Ophelia’, the grinding misery of ‘Mother of All Passion’ and the gothic grandeur of ‘Afterglow’ are just a couple of examples of how the band worked a variety of styles into their sound to create their vision. A much vaunted use of violin and cello throughout adds a touch of classic melancholy about it and, alongside fellow countrymen The Gathering, gave Dutch doom a real tangible place amongst the heavyweights of the genre. I mean, just look at closer ‘For Eternity’ as a perfect example of how a guttural death/doom track can be rendered with a graceful beauty through judicious use of such instrumentation. It feels like the closing of a symphony, albeit a grim and dark one. Their highly celebrated return to the mournful, almost gothic doom of their debut on their more recent releases has seen the legacy of Celestial Season become more recognised and more appreciated. They are a band who may have not had the most obvious influence on their genre over the years, a band who have felt underappreciated but a band who nevertheless have contributed much to the growth of the genre. ‘Forever Scarlet Passion’ is an incredible record, one that deserves to sit in the pantheon of great doom records like ‘Gothic’, ‘Turn Loose the Swans’ or ‘The Silent Enigma’. Maybe it is time we told more people about it.
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