The Dawning of Mournful Hymns

Infobox Album
Name = The Dawning of Mournful Hymns
Type = Compilation album
Artist = Mournful Congregation


Released = 2002
Recorded =
Genre = Doom metal
Length = 126:13
Label = Weird Truth Productions
Producer =
Reviews =
Last album = "Tears from a Grieving Heart" (2001)
This album = "The Dawning of Mournful Hymns" (2002)
Next album = "The Monad of Creation" (2005)

"The Dawning of Mournful Hymns" is a compilation album by Mournful Congregation, consisting of most of their recordings prior to 2002. It was released as a double-CD in 2002 on Weird Truth Productions.

Track listing

Disc one

# "Fading Light of a Dying Sun" – 11:46
# "Astralic Dreams" – 10:07
# "Weeping" – 2:47
# "Suffer the Storms" – 9:17
# "Heads Bowed" – 12:33
# "Miriam" – 2:58
# "An Epic Dream of Desire" – 15:43

: Tracks 1-4 are from the "Weeping" demo; recorded and mixed during September 1994: Tracks 5-7 are from the "An Epic Dream of Desire" demo; recorded and mixed during October 1995

Disc two

# "Skyward Gaze, Earthward Touch" – 9:42
# "Remembrance of the Transcending Moon" – 11:21
# "Empirical Choirs" – 7:26
# "Tears from a Grieving Heart" – 10:02
# "Opal of the Stream Beneath the Hills" – 13:11
# "Elemental" – 0:53
# "The Epitome of Gods and Men Alike" – 8:23

: Tracks 1-6 are from the "Tears from a Grieving Heart" album; Recorded between 1997 and 1998; mixed during July 2001.: Track 7 is from the "The Epitome of Gods and Men Alike" single; recorded and mixed during 2000.