The Maniacal Vale

The Maniacal Vale
The Maniacal Vale
Studio album by Esoteric
Released	2008
Studio	Priory Recording
Genre	Funeral doom metal
Length	101:49
Label	Season of Mist
Producer	Esoteric
Esoteric chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
MetalReview	^[1]
Sputnikmusic	^[2]
AllMusic	^[3]

The Maniacal Vale is the fifth studio album by the British funeral doom metal band Esoteric.^[4] It is a double album and was released on 26 June 2008 through French label Season of Mist. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Esoteric at Priory Recording Studios. Artwork by Kati Astraeir.

Track listing

All songs credited to Esoteric. Actual writers listed below.

Disc 1

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Circle (Greg Chandler, Gordon Bicknell)"	20:45
2.	"Beneath This Face (Chandler)"	11:21
3.	"Quickening (Chandler, Oliver Goyet)"	12:18
4.	"Caucus of Mind (Bicknell)"	7:21
Total length:		51:45

Disc 2

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Silence (Chandler)"	15:44
2.	"The Order of Destiny (Chandler, Bicknell)"	11:32
3.	"Ignotum Per Ignotius (Mark Bodossian)"	22:42
Total length:		49:58

Personnel

Gordon Bicknell - Guitar
Mark Bodossian - Bass
Greg Chandler - Vocals, Guitar
Joe Fletcher - Drums
Olivier Goyet - Keyboards

References

^ [1] Archived August 27, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
^ "Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale (album review)". Sputnikmusic. 26 June 2008. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
^ The Maniacal Vale at AllMusic
^ "Esoteric :: Discography". Esotericuk.net. Retrieved 5 October 2015.

External links

The Maniacal Vale @ esotericuk.net

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[1] [1] Archived August 27, 2008, at the Wayback Machine

[2] "Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale (album review)". Sputnikmusic. 26 June 2008. Retrieved 5 October 2015.

[maniacalvale-3] The Maniacal Vale at AllMusic

[Band_Discography-4] "Esoteric :: Discography". Esotericuk.net. Retrieved 5 October 2015.

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v t e Esoteric
Greg Chandler Mark Bodossian Joe Fletcher Kris Clayton Simon Walcroft
Studio albums	Esoteric Emotions – The Death of Ignorance (1993) Epistemological Despondency (1994) The Pernicious Enigma (1997) Metamorphogenesis (1999) Subconscious Dissolution into the Continuum (2004) The Maniacal Vale (2008) Paragon of Dissonance (2011) A Pyrrhic Existence (2019)