We celebrated Gorement‘s cult basic The Ending Quest with a Corridor of Fame induction of the album in Decibel‘s June 2025 problem, however we wished much more protection of this mid-’90s demise metallic landmark. So HOF writer José Carlos Santos corralled guitarist Patrik Ferlund to supply this unique track-by-track breakdown of The Ending Quest, so take it manner, Patrik!
My Ending Quest
The primary monitor. In reality, the primary monitor that I wrote after we had performed the Into Shadows EP, too. You possibly can hear the Bolt Thrower vibes, I feel it simply reeks of that band. That’s typical me, it’s a particular band for me. At the moment I used to be additionally loads into On the Gates, the Gardens of Grief EP. If you happen to take heed to the mid half, that’s really me attempting to do a pleasant copy of On the Gates with the concord components. Additionally the primary lyric written by [vocalist] Jimmy [Karlsson] that was slightly extra “poetic” than the sooner lyrics we did. This went slightly viral on the web at one level, I’ve seen a variety of covers of it, even a piano model. Additionally, I’ve seen a wierd vocal cowl of it. It’s a kind of our signature track; it turned that over time.
Vale of Tears
This and the opener have been the 2 songs we wrote over the summer time of 1992. We thought we shouldn’t be too doomy, we had all these actually heavy doom tracks already, so we determined to do a extra again to fundamentals, extra direct, sooner one, like what we had performed with “Darkness of the Lifeless” and “Human Relic.” As you possibly can hear, a variety of Entombed and Dismember influences there, with some fairly tough drum components. It’s a pleasant quick one.
Human Relic
That’s a typical Patrik Fernlund track from 1991. The principle riff is impressed by a Benediction monitor, “Artefacted Irreligion” from Unconscious Terror. At the moment I used to be additionally closely into Xysma, the Finnish grind masters. It’s my standard melting pot of various stuff, a variety of tempo modifications and stops. So far as I’m involved, that is our actual signature track, to be sincere. As a curiosity, Italian band Daemoniac really did a canopy of it, and invited me to play guitar on it, it’s on their 2019 album Dwellers of Apocalypse.
The Memorial
I did the lyrics on this one, it was the monitor, along with “Obsequies of Mankind,” that actually fashioned our sound, we discovered the system for our model with these two songs. It’s our first try to write down songs in a extra complicated form of manner, kind of progressive, telling a narrative all through. Once more, a variety of On the Gates influences on a few of the riffs, and a variety of Crypt of Kerberos, too, I cherished their second demo and the Cyclone of Madness EP. I by no means wished to repeat something, however I attempted to have the vibes of the stuff I preferred on my songs.
The Misplaced Breed
There you may have it, the epic! A lot of Crypt of Kerberos and On the Gates in that monitor, once more. Melody-wise, I imagined I used to be the [Paradise Lost guitarist] Greg Waterproof coat of Gorement! We actually got here up with a great monitor on this one, I feel. I keep in mind sitting at residence, enjoying some riffs, some melodies, then went into the rehearsal room, we organized it and we made one thing of it, of all these completely different components. It actually seems like a whole track to me, all of the components ended up becoming so nicely collectively, the dynamics are nice. I feel we actually hit it with this one. That is the one which ought to be our signature track!
Silent Hymn (for the Lifeless)
That was after we panicked slightly bit. Across the finish of 1992, we nonetheless didn’t have the final track we would have liked to finish the ten. So we got here up with this kind of intro, you possibly can really hear some similarities with the intro to Paradise Misplaced’s first album, with the concord components. So I had that half, and I got here up with this theme, and the blokes thought that melody that begins the monitor sounds slightly bit just like the intro melody for a kids’s program we watched after we have been youngsters within the ‘70s. The working title for this track was really “Alfons Åberg,” which was the identify of the present. We thought we’d slip it in as an intro, or as an instrumental interlude in the midst of the album. It’s not full, we all know it, there’s a lot lacking right here, however we have been panicking, we needed to ship the tape to the producer and we have been out of time. In reality, ultimately I steered we take the solo half from “Technique of Cent” off the second demo, put that in, after which finish it with the final a part of ‘Moulder Inside’ from the primary demo. So we really stole bits and items, gave some previous components a greater destiny to finish it. It ended up working within the context of the album, surprisingly.
Sea of Silence
The opposite “epic” monitor on the album alongside “The Misplaced Breed.” This one is principally me attempting to make my finest Paradise Misplaced impression, Gothic model – therefore the feminine vocals that I wished to have on it. We may really remake a great model of it simply taking the monitor from the album and having somebody do the vocals over it.
Obsequies of Mankind
Initially, the final track on our second demo. Once more, I got here up with some Crypts of Kerberos-ish riffs there. Extra importantly, I feel this was the primary monitor the place I began to check out the On the Gates harmonies. They’ve a very unusual method to construct harmonies, particularly on these first few information with Alf [Svensson]. They’re probably not following one another, it’s very odd however very tasteful. I used to be actually impressed by that, and I wished to discover that on this one.
Darkness of the Lifeless
The primary track that we wrote as Gorement! To start with of 1991. That is one other track that reeks of Bolt Thrower. I had simply purchased the Conflict Grasp album, and that has an impact on you. I feel that’s noticeable on this monitor, however I actually prefer it. The lyrics have been written by all 5 of us, down in Germany, through the recordings. Poor Jimmy, we really wrote the lyrics the evening earlier than he was presupposed to do the vocals. However he nailed it, it sounds nice. We had various beers again then, and after we learn them the morning after, we have been all like, okay, what does this imply? Every thing simply sounded so unusual. It’s humorous that we are saying “misplaced paradise” at one level. Nevertheless it all labored!
Into Shadows
Sadly, I’ve to offer the honour to Crypta Information for the order of the monitor listing, that’s the one factor they did proper, this ended up being an excellent closing track to the album. Quite a lot of Tiamat influences, I actually cherished The Astral Sleep album. I had simply purchased an acoustic guitar and wished to do some good stuff on it. I’m not excellent at it, however I do just like the acoustic half on this track. They keyboard components are additionally actually good and I’ve to offer credit score to Dan Swanö on that one – after we did the EP again in Might 1992 with him, I instructed him I’d like so as to add some atmospheric keyboard components, and he nailed it in 5 minutes. He’s a musical genius. Naturally we used these components on the album.
