The culmination of a three-album project that began last year, A Dark Poem, Part III: The Messiah Complex (Season of Mist) finds progressive Norwegians Green Carnation at their most adventurous and exploratory. Continuing from the themes of alienation, distrust, and childhood trauma covered on The Shores Of Melancholia, plus the family crises and depression of Sanguis, the band’s ninth full-length studio release adds systemic collapse, and a helplessness and lack of control in a world of growing technological fear to their list of woes. Continue reading
