Description

Still sealed 2018 re-issue in digipak with 3 bonus tracks from the split with Woods Of Infinity

Joyless is a depressive rock (post-Forgotten Woods) project for Olav, Rune and Thomas. There are bands so much capable of writing history that their intutions become a trend for the followers. These bands can be rightfully recognized as fathers of their musical genre. Wisdom And Arrogance is the second output of the project, but also the first to show Joyless in a comprehensive form, an evolution of the first wild signs that characterized the bands debut, with songs swifting towards more contaminated negative rock territories. The album has been indeed an influence on the scene and was released by the young Kvarforth (Shining) via his personal label Selbstmord Services. Together with Unlimited Hate, the debut, these albums have become part of the series to emphasize their importance in experimenting different forms of hateful and negative music, showing the potential progression that Black Metal would have reached at a later stage, and making of Joyless a precursor of that irreverent attitude and creativity later flaunted by bands like Lifelover and Shining.

Track list:
1. Divine
2. Close To God
3. Stand
4. Isn’t It Nice
5. The Nails
6. Transpire
7. Why Should I Cry
8. Trust Endorse
9. Room Of Velvet Splendour
10. Ingenting-from 2005 split EP
11. Vinternatt-from 2005 split EP
12. Stalingrad-from 2005 split EP