If you missed the "While The Rest Of the World Sleep..." 2008 release by FunerART Records; you still have a chance to get your hands on this second album by Aura Hiemis as it just has been re-released by Endless Winter with a complete re-thought artwork and packaging and a slightly different tracklist. The presentation is really ambitious: the digipack is twice as long as a normal jewelcase for the same width!!. If you like naked women imprison in serpentine tree branches and if you can stand an overwhelming photoshopy touch, you'll love it! You all know how melodic Death Doom is a waymarked genre; hard to come up with something original with so worn-out tools. The vast majority of bands that have made them a nest in this niche can be put one behind another and nothing would stick out. You can describe them all with the the same old references. Aura Hiemis is a one-man band hailing from Chile; Herumor V is also active in Mar de Grises. And you can hear there's something that stands out here. Frankly, this is barely explainable; it's something in the tone and some sort of epicness that give me that feeling. The languid guitar lines expand with majesty, they are hold during a long time in every song, but never sound to drag in a boring way. Between melancholy and despair, there's a vast room let for an aural temple to settle. The voice is quite versatile also, Herumor V explores the dark ressources of his vocal abilities: whisper, raspy growls, black-ish shrieks, sensitive wailing clean chants; you'll even have ethereal female voice entwined in some songs.