Artist: Yearning
Genre(s):
Rock
Metal: Doom
Discography:
Plaintive Scenes
Year: 2006
Tracks: 8
Evershade
Year: 2003
Tracks: 8
Frore Meadow
Year: 2000
Tracks: 12
With Tragedies Adorned
Year: 1997
Tracks: 8
The set known as Yearning was formed by Finnish youths Juhani Palomäki (vocals/guitar/keyboards), Tero Kalliomäki (guitars), and Toni Kostiainen (drums) in late 1994, and earlier went by the mention Flegeton, which was derived from Dante's Divine Comedy. Like the remorseless Scandinavian winters, the music heard on their presentment, "Through the Desolate Lands," was cold, somber, and depressing, and after securing the services of curiously named freshwater bass participant Mr. Woodland (real name: Petri Salo), Yearning further developed their atmospheric firebrand of gothic drab metallic element with their arcsecond demo, "The Temple of Sagal."
The latter greatly impressed the folks at France's Holy Records, which afterward release the band's 1997 debut album, With Tragedies Adorned, and its 1999 followup, Plaintive Scenes. Both of these efforts bordered on progressive rock, so wide was their stylistic range and so high their ambitions, just Yearning silent managed to inculcate them with plenty of tonal pattern, black bile, and alloy. The same was honest of grandiloquent ensuing efforts, 2001's Frore Meadow and 2003's Evershade, during which Yearning endured a number of lineup changes, merely carried on anyway.
William Christie, Les Arts Florissants
