My Album Of The Month (January 2012)

Artist/Band: The Foreshadowing
Album: Oionos
Year: 2010

Etymology: Oionos means vulture or bird of prey in greek mythology.  
The gothic/doom metal band hailing from lazio. Oionos is their second album and i found it quite accidentally. It's very well composed. The good production quality is the first point: vocals, guitar riffs, keyboard sound are all well delivered to the audience with high resolution. The album follows a certain theme in almost all tracks. The horror of war, inhumanity, immorality is vividly noticeable; as the title resembles the concept of apocalypse rules the atmosphere. It never gets boring with variable structure of melodies and orchestration. The metaphorical closing track contains historical part of Robert Oppenheimer's speech remarked after detonation of first atomic bomb; words extracted from Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds". 
Guitar solos and vocals which are entirely clean, are so catchy. My favorite tracks are: Fallen Reign, Revelation 3:11, Lost humanity and the title track Oionos.