Penitent
Penitent is a Norwegian darkwave, gothic, and dark ambient project formed in 1994 in Stavanger by multi-instrumentalist Karsten Hamre as a vehicle for combining personal poetry with music. The project's debut album Melancholia appeared in 1996 on the Swedish Cold Meat Industry label, followed by The Beauty of Pain (1997) and a series of releases across several labels spanning neoclassical darkwave and symphonic black metal influences. Penitent has remained active for three decades, with remastered editions of early albums released via The Circle Music in recent years.
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Penitent Discography
10 tracks
- 1 Autumn Is The Beauty of Pain 13:50
- 2 Black Is The Sun Shining 4:18
- 3 Into The Great Inferno 7:16
- 4 A Mournful Bridge Over A River of Tears 10:51
- 5 Necropolis 5:12
- 6 My Secret Garden 8:02
- 7 Autumn Is The Beauty of Pain (Ashes of Time Redux) 10:46
- 8 A Mournful Bridge Over A River of Tears (Ashes of Time Redux) 10:51
- 9 Necropolis (Ashes of Time Redux) 5:13
- 10 Into the Great Inferno (Ashes of Time Redux) 6:11
7 tracks
- 1 Entering The Gate 4:00
- 2 The Birth of My Funeral 10:43
- 3 I Die And Become 10:10
- 4 The Shadow of Sorrow 8:31
- 5 Into The Vast Eternity 7:41
- 6 A Last Temptation 7:21
- 7 I Died and Became The Shadow of Sorrow 6:46
8 tracks
- 1 Regret (Buben Remix) 8:32
- 2 The Longing (Buben Remix) 11:32
- 3 Born Bound (Buben Remix) 6:40
- 4 Throne of The Abyss (Buben Remix) 10:40
- 5 Black Is The Sun Shining (Eclipse Remix) - Arcitc Plague Remix 4:31
- 6 Black Is The Sun Shining (Eclipse Remix) - Arctic Remix 4:31
- 7 Necropolis (Eclipse Remix) - Haunted Remix 4:21
- 8 Necropolis (Eclipse Remix) - Undead Remix 4:19
11 tracks
- 1 Ode to Marquis de Sade (Instrumental Version) 3:39
- 2 The Crown of All Creations (Instrumental Version) 8:22
- 3 The Black Lake of Melancholy (Instrumental Version) 6:18
- 4 The Beauty of Pain (Instrumental Version) 10:46
- 5 I Died and Became The Shadow of Sorrow (Instrumental Version) 6:46
- 6 Under The Mournful Bridge Flows A River of Tears (Instrumental Version) 10:52
- 7 The Mortal Fear of The Dark (Instrumental Version) 5:21
- 8 Nekrotafio (Instrumental Version) 5:13
- 9 Into The Endless Spheres (Instrumental Version) 6:04
- 10 Black is the sun shining eternally (Instrumental Version) 3:24
- 11 The Last Temptation of Me (Instrumental Version) 3:34
12 tracks
- 1 Images of Me (Instrumental Version) 3:47
- 2 Beyond Abandoned (Instrumental Version) 6:55
- 3 Faded black lighten my way (Instrumental Version) 5:16
- 4 Reality of The Unseen (Instrumental Version) 4:12
- 5 The Shapeless Beauty (Instrumental Version) 7:20
- 6 Time Came for A Final Decision (Instrumental Version) 5:03
- 7 The Transfiguration of My Past (Instrumental Version) 5:03
- 8 The Epitaph for The Lost Ones (Instrumental Version) 5:31
- 9 In A Time of Regret (Instrumental Version) 5:35
- 10 The Demon Troubadour (Instrumental Version) 5:16
- 11 The Fate of Longing (Instrumental Version) 11:27
- 12 This Earth… A Teardrop (Instrumental Version) 5:05
10 tracks
- 1 Moonlight Sonata 5:26
- 2 Für Elise 2:40
- 3 Coriolan Overture 12:44
- 4 Ode To Joy 6:05
- 5 Consecration of The House 10:43
- 6 Symphony In E (Slow Movement) 6:49
- 7 The Creatures of Prometheus 8:03
- 8 Egmont Overture 4:48
- 9 Sonata In F Major 4:29
- 10 Military March in F 3:58
11 tracks
- 1 Fragments of My Past 4:18
- 2 The Black Lake 6:36
- 3 A Mournful Bridge Over A River of Tears (Instrumental Version) 10:56
- 4 Into The Great Inferno (Instrumental Version) 6:14
- 5 Necropolis (Instrumental Version) 5:19
- 6 A Last Temptation 7:24
- 7 Entering The Gate 4:05
- 8 Into The Vast Eternity 7:46
- 9 Necropolis (Old Monk Saga Mix) 5:17
- 10 A Mournful Bridge Over A River Of Tears (Fragments Mix) 10:21
- 11 Black Is The Sun Shining (Red Moon Instrumental Deconstruction) 5:11
11 tracks
- 1 With Fire I Am One (Instrumental Version) 4:38
- 2 Life Beyond Purity (Instrumental Version) 4:56
- 3 She Who Walked With Beauty (Instrumental Version) 6:52
- 4 The Last Flight of The Mind (Instrumental Version) 4:31
- 5 Lady of Destruction (Instrumental Version) 5:00
- 6 No More Regrets (Instrumental Version) 5:35
- 7 A Soul Born Bound (Instrumental Version) 6:18
- 8 Inside The Void of The Universe (Instrumental Version) 7:03
- 9 The Might of Solitude (Instrumental Version) 4:31
- 10 The Aching Heart (Instrumental Version) 5:00
- 11 Upon The Throne of The Abyss (Instrumental Version) 18:23
14 tracks
- 1 Prolog 1:56
- 2 I Det Uendelige 2:40
- 3 Stille 5:32
- 4 Veien 4:23
- 5 The Dance of Demons 3:09
- 6 The Undertaker 5:51
- 7 Possessive Thought 5:30
- 8 Det Sorte Tjern 12:55
- 9 Intro (Demo '95) 1:03
- 10 Stille (Demo '95) 3:28
- 11 Veien (Demo '95) 4:25
- 12 I Det Uendelige (Demo '95) 3:16
- 13 Victory (Demo '95) 3:09
- 14 Outro (Demo '95) 2:10
8 tracks
- 1 Voices In The Night 3:40
- 2 A Bleeding Heart of Desire 5:07
- 3 In Mortal Fear (Life & Death, Pt. I) 5:53
- 4 The Arcane Epitaph 10:56
- 5 Ancient Despair 6:19
- 6 In Mortal Darkness (Life & Death, Pt. II) 5:00
- 7 The Endless Spheres 12:58
- 8 The Mortal Fear of The Dark 5:21
21 tracks
- 1 Prolog 1:56
- 2 Det Sorte Tjern 12:56
- 3 On Another's Sorrow 3:50
- 4 Necropolis (Performed by Stillife) 5:09
- 5 Entering The Gate 4:00
- 6 A Last Temptation 7:21
- 7 Voices In The Night 3:40
- 8 A Bleeding Heart of Desire 5:05
- 9 In Mortal Fear (Life & Death Part I) 5:50
- 10 In Mortal Darkness (Life & Death Part II) 4:59
- 11 The Black Lake (Instrumental Edit) 11:24
- 12 A mournful bridge over a river of tears (Instrumental) 10:51
- 13 Despair 2:34
- 14 Phantasm of Lost Existence 4:16
- 15 A Gate to Past Times 5:05
- 16 Transfiguration 5:03
- 17 Epitaph for The Lost Ones 5:27
- 18 Demon Troubadour 5:07
- 19 The Longing 11:29
- 20 Within A Void 4:55
- 21 The Last Flight of Divinity 4:30
9 tracks
- 1 Despair 2:34
- 2 God and Country 4:53
- 3 The Test of Time 6:30
- 4 Phantasm of Lost Existence 4:16
- 5 A Gate to Past Times 5:05
- 6 Manifesto 6:22
- 7 Ancient Wisdom of The Forest 6:20
- 8 At Feasts Full of Warm Blood 9:00
- 9 On Another's Sorrow 3:50
8 tracks
- 1 Prologue 3:17
- 2 Beyond the Whispering Echoes 3:53
- 3 Touched by Silence 5:18
- 4 Melancholy by the Moonlit Lake 6:27
- 5 The Path of Shadows 4:23
- 6 Whispers from the Norse Woods 3:22
- 7 A Journey Through Pain and Redemption 5:47
- 8 Beyond the Veil of Possessive Thoughts 5:44
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