Another great band/project that deserves some much needed attention.

I have all their demos/CDs (Except a few, but those are coming in the mail)

Great band, http://www.psychedoomelic.com/ has their music for sale....

do they have anywhere i could hear them first?

http://www.last.fm/music/Mistress+Of+The+Dead

Thats the only place I could find, but I don't use Last FM, so I don't know what help it would be...

theres no mp3s on there, only similar artist ones. thanks anyway though

Maybe psychedoomelic will be able to help...great band/project, I doubt you would be dissapointed.... (Funeral Doom with ambient elements, but when the metal parts kicks in I am estatic....

Edit: Loki said it better then me, read next post...

Mistress Of The Dead varies their style considerably - Black/Doom, Black/Funeral Doom, straight Funeral Doom. Is perhaps a more "beautiful" alternative to the existence of Nortt whilst still being intriguing, original and generally very good. Some reviews - www.hyperblastmetal.com - although I've not got around to doing them all yet.

Where did you read the lyrics? Non of my CDs have them, at least I don't think they do....

The atmosphere is more "beautiful", the titles are easily moreso, and Vlad included some lyrics in at least one release for me.

Ahh...(Oh, read all your reviews, they certianly do him justice) and happen to know where you can get the split with quercus (sp?), the only thing I don't have...)

Nej. There were many problems with its release. First one label, then another. Not sure who is supposed to be doing it atm. Neither Vlad nor Lukas seems to know, or at least didn't last time I spoke to either on that matter.

Is it actually released?

Not that I'm aware of. I own everything by both bands, but that one is not in circulation yet.

Either way, read Loki's reviews for a peak of Mistress Of The Dead, fantastic releases...

As I said in my Funeral Doom-thread some time ago, I bought "Cryptic" because I was very fond of "The Saddest Autumn" which is still a great song with fantastic moods and melodies. But the album as a whole totally disappointed me as I find all of the other tracks boring, uninspired and simply bad... What I heard of his other releases seems to have a similar tendency for me, sometimes I stumble over a good tune, but the majority of what I hear is... well... everything but great to me.

Of what I've heard, I prefer Martyrium... some few other nice songs here and there. Still waiting for something that would definitely "prove" the band's kvlt status...

I have the split with Quercus and I wasn't particularly impressed. The usual Funeral stuff, not that original. I loved Quercus, thou...

Martyrium is my favourite realease, Beneath Funeral Flowers would be second and everything else third...

A Czech label whose name escapes me has recently re-released two of the band's on slim digipack recently, 500 copies each. It's quite intriguing but the band has failed yet to really impress me. What I heard sounds a bit too much like the 2,458 one-man funeral doom band out there...

Epidemie if I remember rightly.

Yeah, I have the same impression about most on "Cryptic" except for "The Saddest Autumn" which I find great. I actually have the limited Epidemie-records re-issue of that album, so if anyone is interested - I'd be glad to give it away.