Anathema back catalog

K-Scope is having a sale on pretty much the entire Anathema catalog, both on CD and vinyl:  https://www.burningshed.com/store/kscope/collection/5/

I have only their last three (their latest excluding Falling Deeper), so it seems it might be a good time to collect some more.  I'm certain to get everything from Eternity through A Natural Disaster (on CD).  I'm less certain on The Silent Enigma and especially Serenades, being solely doom metal and (apparently) little to no prog.  That being said, I do like some doom metal and can generally tolerate, if not particularly appreciate, harsh vocals.

Any advice?

`The Silent Enigma' is ferocious! Vincent doesn't excatly growl, but there's this feral, scratchy harsh quality to his voice. It's a great, plodding gloomy dirge-like metal album, with plenty of proggy ambitions starting to emerge. Highly recommended!

`Crestfallen' (the debut EP) and `Serenades' are more pure doom metal, but there's nice acoustic interludes, and the later even has a very somber synth/orchestrated extended drone to close on. Both have rather beautiful, sadly romantic lyrics, which bring an unexpected fragile quality to them.

If they're dirt cheap, grab all of those ones!

Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - April 15 2015 at 00:24

Listen to what you get first before thinking of going further back in time. If you like Alt-fore and Etermity you can then get The Silent Egnima and then perhaps Sarah Nades and the Crestlaffen EP. 

If Judgment does the trick for you, then certainly also Alternative 4, hardly a weak moment on that

richardh wrote: Listened to Silent Enigma over the weekend. I would say tentatively that I quite liked it. The growling is not that overdone and there is a richness to the sound. I would need several listens to really see how it would settle though. Hard to compare to more recent Anathema obviously. Oh and some nice female vocal bits if I recall correctly.