ANATHEMA - Crestfallen CD

In a year marking the 35th anniversary of Anathema’s formation, a 2025 CD edition of Crestfallen (1992) with new audio master by Jaime Gomez and two rare bonus tracks from an unreleased 7” (originally intended as part of Peaceville’s Collector’s Club series in the 1990’s).

 

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Crestfallen was the band’s first release for Peaceville and contained reworked tracks from their ‘All Faith is Lost’ demo as well as new material, clearly showing a band with an exceptional grasp for melody and atmosphere in their brooding doom-heavy compositions and poetic landscapes; with effortless transitions between brutality (accentuated by the ‘growled’ vocals of then singer Darren White) and beauty on tracks such as ‘The Sweet Suffering’ and the now classic ‘They Die’.

 

This set the stage for their debut full-length LP, Serenades, further expanding upon this captivating formula and showing Anathema’s diversity and body of influences stretching way beyond the confines of metal.

 

Crestfallen was recorded at the legendary Academy Studios in Yorkshire, UK, in 1992 (Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, etc), with Keith Appleton at the helm.