The Incurable Tragedy

Infobox Album |
Name = The Incurable Tragedy
Type = studio
Artist = Into Eternity


Released = August 25, 2008 flagicon|Europe September 2, 2008 flagicon|USA
Recorded = 2007−2008
Genre = Progressive death metal Melodic death metal Power metal
Length = 38:57
Label = Century Media
Producers =
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:w9fpxzwkldse link]
* Sputnikmusic Rating|1.5|5 [http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=26890 link]
Last album = "The Scattering of Ashes"
(2006)
This album = "The Incurable Tragedy"
(2008)
Next album =

"The Incurable Tragedy" is the fifth full-length studio album by the Canadian progressive death metal band Into Eternity. The album was released on August 25, 2008 in Europe through Century Media Records. This is the first album which does not feature long time drummer Jim Austin, and the first to feature new drummer Steve Bolognese, and guitarist Justin Bender.

According to the band's site, the album is a concept album focusing on the struggles of a man who is diagnosed with a terminal illness, specifically, cancer. The concept was inspired by the deaths of the two best friends and father of guitarist Tim Roth. [ [http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=98509 BLABBERMOUTH.NET - INTO ETERNITY To Complete Mixing New Album This Week ] ]

The band released an unmixed and unmastered version of the album's "heaviest" song on their MySpace, entitled "Diagnosis Terminal". On July 1, 2008 the mixed and mastered version of the song was available for streaming on the band's MySpace.

Critical reception

In its first week of release, the album sold 1,900 copies in the United States.cite web| title = INTO ETERNITY: 'The Incurable Tragedy' First-Week Sales Revealed|author=|publisher=Blabbermouth.net|date=2008-09-10|url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=104443
accessdate = 2008-09-14 ]

Track listing

# "Prelude to Woe" − 0:55
# "Tides of Blood" − 3:46
# "Spent Years of Regret" − 4:15
# "Symptoms" − 1:48
# "Diagnosis Terminal" − 3:31
# "The Incurable Tragedy I" (September 21, 2006) − 2:49
# "Indignation" − 3:58
# "Time Immemorial" − 4:15
# "The Incurable Tragedy II" (November 10, 2006) − 3:37
# "A Black Light Ending" − 3:33
# "One Funeral Hymn for Three" − 4:10
# "The Incurable Tragedy III" (December 15, 2007) − 2:20

Credits

Band members

* Stu Block − clean/death vocals
* Tim Roth − lead guitar, back-up clean vocals
* Justin Bender − rhythm guitar, lead guitar
* Troy Bleich − bass guitar, back-up death vocals
* Steve Bolognese − drums

References

External links

* [http://www.intoeternity.net/news.php Into Eternity - Official News Page]
* [http://centurymedia.com/ Century Music Audio Studios]