Novembers Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure [2005]

Formed in 1989, this awesome American quartet hails from Chicago and offers a powerful combination of heavy riffing and more melodic, softer passages, with clean and death vocals mixed together. The band signed its first contract with Italian record company Regress Record in 1992.

"The Pale Haunt Departure is not something you will want to put on if you are entertaining guests, want something to go jogging to, or to bring in some cheerful ambience. However, this is some seriously gothic and progressive extreme metal, doomy and depressing yes, but expertly played and executed." © Pete Pardo @ www.seaoftranquility.org

You can download the video of the first track - The Pale Haunt Departure - from the band's website, but be careful, it's a 228MB monster! The quality is impressive, though.

http://www.novembersdoom.com/media/palehaunt288mb.mov

Samples here
Band's website here

Have fun!