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While Heaven Wept to Reissue First Two Albums

Cult (as opposed to kvlt) Virginian doom six-pack While Heaven Wept, who are headed to Deutschland early next year for the Hammer of Doom fest, have announced reissues of their first two albums via Cruz Del Sur. Nifty reissues at that. The PR wire has details:

Anyone remember the Chris Rock bit from Bigger and Blacker about the trench coat mafia? "There was six of the motherfuckers. I didn't have six friends in high school. Shit, I don't got six friends now! That's three on three in a half court!"We have heard your calls! After the incredible response to While Heaven Wept‘s brand new album Vast Oceans Lachrymose — which continues to receive the very highest of accolades worldwide — Cruz Del Sur Music, as well as the continued demands from their audience, have finally convinced the band to reissue their long out-of-print past albums Sorrow of the Angels and Of Empires Forlorn, each in limited-editions of 1000 hand-numbered CDs!

This is a rare opportunity for everyone who missed these masterpieces of epic doom metal history the first time around to buy these at new-release prices (as opposed to the outrageous amounts these albums sometimes fetch on eBay). Both albums feature updated cover art, new pictures, and new liner notes from main man Tom Phillips. The audio content is identical to the original Eibon Records (Sorrow of the Angels) and Rage of Achilles Records (Of Empires Forlorn) releases so as to preserve the integrity of the original albums.

These reissues will be strictly limited to 1000 copies, with absolutely no repressing whatsoever at the request of While Heaven Wept themselves. Both albums will be released simultaneously on the 29th of January 2010, just in time for the bands’ appearance at the Hammer of Doom III festival in Wurzburg, Germany on February 6th.

More album specifics (and a video) after the jump…

Sorrow of the Angels:
* Originally released in a limited-edition of 1000 CDs via Eibon Records in 1998
* Out-of-print completely since 1999
* Features updated cover art, new pictures, and liner notes
* Hand-numbered limited edition of 1000 CDs
* Includes the bands first mega-epic, the 17 minute “Thus with a Kiss I Die”

Tracklisting:
1. Thus with a Kiss I Die (16:58)
2. Into the Wells of Sorrow (9:43)
3. The Death of Love (9:56)
4. September (2:21)

Of Empires Forlorn:
* Originally released on Rage of Achilles Records in 2003
* Out-of-print since the demise of Rage of Achilles in 2004
* Features updated cover art, new pictures, and liner notes
* Hand-numbered limited edition of 1000 CDs
* One of the most highly regarded releases of 2003
* Includes “The Drowning Years,” “Soulsadness,” and “Voice in the Wind”

Tracklisting:
1. The Drowning Years (5:41)
2. Of Empires Forlorn (7:49)
3. Voice in the Wind (6:25)
4. In Aeturnum (7:30)
5. Soulsadness (7:24)
6. Epistle No. 81 (3:24)
7. Sorrow of the Angels (4:47)

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