Penance "Proving Ground"

Proving Ground es el tercer larga duracion de la banda americana de Doom Metal Penance, editado en marzo de 1999.

Tracklist:

1. Proving Ground 06:18
2. Cloudless 07:34
3. Transcending 05:51   
4. Dead Already 05:50  
5. Bitter 04:17
6. Pain 07:30  
7. Never Lost 08:12  
8. Cast in Grey 06:53  
9. Bleed You 03:44
10. Circle #9 06:30
11. Slipping... 08:26

Time:   01:11:05  

Recording information:

- Recorded July 1999 at Dave World Studio, Ambridge, PA.

- Produced by Penance.

Penance "Parallel Corners"

Penance was an American doom metal band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

Penance was born from the ashes of Dream Death, when several members decided to pursue a more traditional doom direction. Dream Death existed during mid eighties and played a mixture of doom, hardcore and thrash metal.

Founders of Penance were drummer Mike Smail and guitarist Terry Weston (both previously members of Dream Death) and they were the core of the band from its early days to the disbanding. The band changed various line-ups, and one of their most notable members were Mary Bielich (Novembers Doom).

Their second album, Parallel Corners, was released 1994, by the European metal label Century Media. Many fans consider this the band's best album, and it's also considered one of the classics of 1990s (traditional) doom metal. On the next releases Penance adopted a slight range of psychedelic influences, but still remained fairly closed to their traditional doom roots.

Tracklist:

1. Words Not Deeds 05:11   
2. Born to Suffer 08:05   
3. Words to Live By 05:17   
4. Destroyed by One 07:49   
5. Crosses 04:03   
6. Visions 07:54   
7. Reflections 08:37   
8. Monster I've Become 06:19   

Total time :  53:15

Recording information:

Produced by Penance.

Recorded May 1994 at Mulberry Street Recorders, Pittsburgh, PA.

Various Artists "Dark Passages"

Dark Passages is a Doom Metal compilation, by Rise Above Records. 

Tracklist:

1. Cathedral - Mourning of a New Day (7:59)
2. St. Vitus - I Bleed Black (5:12)
3. Stillborn - Permanent Solution (6:11)
4. Penance - Contemplation (4:28)
5. Count Raven - High Beliefs (5:29)
6. Cathedral - Ebony Tears (8:20)
7. Revelation - Blessed Realm (3:57)
8. Solitude Aturnus - Where Angels Dare to Tread (5:57)
9. Stillborn - Father of Lies (4:43)
10. Penance - The Pennance (9:51)

Cathedral - Both tracks appear on In Memorium demo (Later released in 1994 on Rise Above).

Saint Vitus - I Bleed Black originates from V (1990, Hellhound Records).

Stillborn - Both tracks appear on The Permanent Solution (1990, Roadracer).

Penance - Both tracks originate from the Living Truth demo.

Count Raven - From the band's 1989 four-track demo.

Revelation - From the band's 1989 demo The Illusion Of Progress.

Solitude Aeturnus - From the 1991 album Into The Depths Of Sorrow (1991, Roadracer).