Third and The Mortal – In This Room (Color)

Third And The Mortal – IN THIS ROOM (COLOR) is the first-ever vinyl pressing of a record that closed a crucial chapter in Norwegian avant-garde gothic metal, and Alone Records chose a limited colored vinyl edition on double gatefold LP to mark the occasion properly.

Third And The Mortal and the Weight of This Album

Third And The Mortal built their reputation in the 1990s by pushing gothic and doom metal into genuinely unusual territory, incorporating atmospheric textures, unconventional song structures, and the distinctive voice of Ann-Mari Edvardsen into something that sat apart from anything else coming out of Norway at the time. While much of the attention around Norwegian metal from that era pointed elsewhere, this band was doing something more patient and strange. In This Room, released in 1997, was their third full-length album and the final recording to feature Edvardsen before the band went on a five-year hiatus. That context matters. There is a sense of arrival and conclusion running through the thirteen tracks here, from the opening movement of Stream through the slow, heavy atmosphere of Hollow and into the quiet of Sleep. The album functions as a complete statement, and it was not a small one.

Why Third And The Mortal – IN THIS ROOM (COLOR) Belongs in Your Collection

For twenty years, In This Room existed only on CD. No vinyl treatment of any kind until Alone Records issued this 2017 edition to mark the twentieth anniversary of the original release. That alone makes this pressing significant for collectors working in this corner of the metal catalog. The format does the album justice: double gatefold LP construction with printed inner sleeves, pressed on limited colored vinyl under catalog number ARLPC 75. The packaging gives the record a physical presence that the original release never had, and the gatefold format allows the artwork and presentation to breathe across a larger canvas.

Pressing Details and Format

Label: Alone Records. Catalog: ARLPC 75. Format: double LP, colored vinyl, gatefold sleeve with printed inner sleeves. This is a limited edition, not an open pressing, which means availability tightens over time as copies move into permanent collections. The tracklist runs thirteen songs across the two records, covering the full In This Room sequence without omissions. If you have been waiting for a vinyl copy of this album since 1997, this is the one that exists, and it was done with enough care in the presentation to reflect the album’s standing in the genre. Collectors focused on Nordic metal history, gothic metal, or the more atmospheric edges of the 1990s heavy music scene will want to pay attention to this one.

Tracklist

1. STREAM
2. MONODY
3. SO PURE
4. THE WOODEN LODGE
5. SOPHISTICATED VAMPIRES
6. HARVEST
7. DID YOU
8. MYRIAD OD PEEP-HOLES
9. SORT OF INVISIBLE
10. A TOUCH OF...
11. HOLLOW
12. THE BARGE
13. SLEEP