Complete List Of Green Carnation Songs From A to Z

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Green Carnation formed in Kristiansand, Norway, in 1990 around guitarist Terje Vik Schei, better known as Tchort. The band began as a death metal group before Tchort joined Emperor, while several of the remaining early members went on to form In the Woods…. When Green Carnation returned near the end of the decade, the project had developed into something far broader, moving through doom metal, progressive metal, hard rock, gothic atmosphere, and acoustic music without settling permanently into one style.

The band’s earliest recording was the Hallucinations of Despair demo, recorded during its original death metal period. Green Carnation did not release a full-length album until Journey to the End of the Night in 2000. That album introduced long compositions, layered vocals, violin, and themes of death, grief, and emotional isolation. Songs such as “In the Realm of the Midnight Sun,” “Under Eternal Stars,” and “My Dark Reflections of Life and Death” established the darker, more expansive direction that would shape the group’s later work.

Light of Day, Day of Darkness followed in 2001. The album consists of a single composition lasting approximately one hour and remains the defining work of Green Carnation’s early career. Tchort wrote the piece from deeply personal experiences involving both death and new life, and the recording expanded the band’s sound through choirs, strings, progressive arrangements, and dramatic changes in mood.

Green Carnation changed direction again with A Blessing in Disguise in 2003. The album favored more compact songwriting while retaining the band’s emotional weight and progressive instincts. “Crushed to Dust,” “Lullaby in Winter,” “Into Deep,” “The Boy in the Attic,” and the a-ha cover “Stay on These Roads” demonstrated how naturally the group could move between heavy rock, melancholy melody, and atmospheric passages.

The band released The Quiet Offspring in 2005, followed by the EP The Burden Is Mine… Alone. The album included “The Everlasting Moment,” “Just When You Think It’s Safe,” “A Place for Me,” and the three-part “Child’s Play” sequence. The EP introduced “Sweet Leaf,” “Six Ribbons,” “Transparent Me,” and its title track, material that pointed toward the fully acoustic record that followed.

The Acoustic Verses arrived in 2006 and removed the amplified metal framework almost entirely. “Maybe?,” “Alone,” “High Tide Waves,” “Child’s Play, Part III,” and the fifteen-minute “9-29-045” placed acoustic guitar, piano, strings, and restrained arrangements at the center of the music. The record later received a remastered anniversary edition, and “My Greater Cause,” the opening section of “9-29-045,” was issued separately as a single.

After the band entered a long hiatus, Green Carnation returned to live activity and eventually released Leaves of Yesteryear in 2020. The album combined new material with a re-recording of “My Dark Reflections of Life and Death” and the Black Sabbath cover “Solitude.” The standalone song “The World Without a View” followed later that year, while an acoustic version of Jim Croce’s “Time in a Bottle” appeared in 2022.

Green Carnation began a planned album trilogy with A Dark Poem, Part I: The Shores of Melancholia in 2025. Its six tracks included “As Silence Took You,” “In Your Paradise,” “Me, My Enemy,” “The Slave That You Are,” the title track, and “Too Close to the Flame.” The second installment, A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis, arrived in April 2026 with six additional songs centered on memory, family, time, isolation, and emotional survival.

The trilogy is scheduled to conclude with A Dark Poem, Part III: The Messiah Complex. Ahead of that album, Green Carnation released “Unconditional Artificial Chemistry” and the title track as advance singles, extending the project’s themes of technology, responsibility, belief, and human behavior.

The list below includes Green Carnation’s studio albums, early demo, EP, standalone singles, covers, re-recordings, and the released advance singles from the final chapter of A Dark Poem. Reissues of identical recordings have not been counted separately.

Complete List Of Green Carnation Songs From A to Z

“9-29-045” – The Acoustic Verses (2006)
“Alone” – The Acoustic Verses (2006)
“As Life Flows By” – A Blessing in Disguise (2003)
“As Silence Took You” – A Dark Poem, Part I: The Shores of Melancholia (2025)
“Between the Gentle Small and the Standing Tall” – The Quiet Offspring (2005)
“The Boy in the Attic” – A Blessing in Disguise (2003)
“The Burden Is Mine… Alone” – The Burden Is Mine… Alone EP (2005)
“Burning to Death” – Hallucinations of Despair demo (1992)
“Child’s Play, Part I” – The Quiet Offspring (2005)
“Child’s Play, Part II” – The Quiet Offspring (2005)
“Child’s Play, Part III” – The Acoustic Verses (2006)
“Corpus Christi” – Hallucinations of Despair demo (1992)
“Crushed to Dust” – A Blessing in Disguise (2003)
“Dead but Dreaming” – The Quiet Offspring (2005)
“Deceased (Ashes to Ashes)” – Hallucinations of Despair demo (1992)
“Deface of Mind” – Hallucinations of Despair demo (1992)
“Echoes of Despair (Part II)” – Journey to the End of the Night (2000)
“End of Journey? (Part III)” – Journey to the End of the Night (2000)
“The Everlasting Moment” – The Quiet Offspring (2005)
“Falling into Darkness” – Journey to the End of the Night (2000)
“Fire in Ice” – A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis (2026)
“Hallucinations of Despair” – Hallucinations of Despair demo (1992)
“High Tide Waves” – The Acoustic Verses (2006)
“Hounds” – Leaves of Yesteryear (2020)
“I Am Time” – A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis (2026)
“In the Realm of the Midnight Sun” – Journey to the End of the Night (2000)
“In Your Paradise” – A Dark Poem, Part I: The Shores of Melancholia (2025)
“Incubus” – Hallucinations of Despair demo (1992)
“Into Deep” – A Blessing in Disguise (2003)
“Journey to the End of Night (Part I)” – Journey to the End of the Night (2000)
“Just When You Think It’s Safe” – The Quiet Offspring (2005)
“A Kiss Before Dying” – Hallucinations of Despair demo (1992)
“Laudate Dominum” – Hallucinations of Despair demo (1992)
“Leaves of Yesteryear” – Leaves of Yesteryear (2020)
“Light of Day, Day of Darkness” – Light of Day, Day of Darkness (2001)
“Loneliness Untold, Loneliness Unfold” – A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis (2026)
“Lullaby in Winter” – A Blessing in Disguise (2003)
“Lunar Tale” – A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis (2026)
“Maybe?” – The Acoustic Verses (2006)
“Me, My Enemy” – A Dark Poem, Part I: The Shores of Melancholia (2025)
“The Messiah Complex” – advance single from A Dark Poem, Part III: The Messiah Complex (2026)
“My Dark Reflections of Life and Death” – Journey to the End of the Night (2000)
“My Dark Reflections of Life and Death (2020 Re-recording)” – Leaves of Yesteryear (2020)
“My Greater Cause” – single; Part I of “9-29-045” (2021)
“Myron and Cole” – A Blessing in Disguise (2003)
“Pile of Doubt” – The Quiet Offspring (2005)
“A Place for Me” – The Quiet Offspring (2005)
“Purple Door, Pitch Black” – The Quiet Offspring (2005)
“The Quiet Offspring” – The Quiet Offspring (2005)
“Rain” – A Blessing in Disguise (2003)
“Sanguis” – A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis (2026)
“Sentinels” – Leaves of Yesteryear (2020)
“Shattered (Part IV)” – Journey to the End of the Night (2000)
“The Shores of Melancholia” – A Dark Poem, Part I: The Shores of Melancholia (2025)
“Six Ribbons” – The Burden Is Mine… Alone EP (2005)
“The Slave That You Are” – A Dark Poem, Part I: The Shores of Melancholia (2025)
“Solitude” – Leaves of Yesteryear (2020)
“Stay on These Roads” – A Blessing in Disguise (2003)
“Sweet Leaf” – The Burden Is Mine… Alone EP (2005)
“Sweet to the Point of Bitter” – A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis (2026)
“Time in a Bottle” – standalone Jim Croce cover (2022)
“Too Close to the Flame” – A Dark Poem, Part I: The Shores of Melancholia (2025)
“Transparent Me” – The Burden Is Mine… Alone EP (2005)
“Two Seconds in Life” – A Blessing in Disguise (2003)
“Unconditional Artificial Chemistry” – advance single from A Dark Poem, Part III: The Messiah Complex (2026)
“Under Eternal Stars” – Journey to the End of the Night (2000)
“When I Was You” – The Quiet Offspring (2005)
“The World Without a View” – standalone single (2020)
“Writings on the Wall” – A Blessing in Disguise (2003)