The Vision Bleak - Witching Hour (2013) - A dark ride with organ sounds and folk elements - 76% (29/03/14)

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The Vision Bleak is one of my favourite bands. They mix dark Lovecraftian lyrics with epic gothic metal, basing their music beautiful melodic vocals and a few occasional blackened shrieks, great guitar play varying between melodic mid-tempo riffs and...

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The Vision Bleak - Witching Hour (2013) - A dark ride with organ sounds and folk elements - 76% (29/03/14)

Par kluseba

The Vision Bleak is one of my favourite bands. They mix dark Lovecraftian lyrics with epic gothic metal, basing their music beautiful melodic vocals and a few occasional blackened shrieks, great guitar play varying between melodic mid-tempo riffs and...

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The Vision Bleak - Witching Hour (2013) - A dark ride with organ sounds and folk elements - 76% (29/03/14)

Par kluseba

The Vision Bleak is one of my favourite bands. They mix dark Lovecraftian lyrics with epic gothic metal, basing their music beautiful melodic vocals and a few occasional blackened shrieks, great guitar play varying between melodic mid-tempo riffs and...

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Septicflesh - A Fallen Temple (1998) - Greece's symphonic gothic metal milestone - 96% (28/05/14)

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The mid and late nineties have always been underestimated in terms of groundbreaking metal releases because the big names didn’t deliver and the scene didn’t get that much attention anymore. Younger generations were rather exposed to the grunge hype,...

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Omnium Gatherum - The Redshift (2008) - Promising elements but no breakthrough yet - 79% (27/05/14)

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I was really enthusiastic to cover a record by Omnium Gatherum since I had seen them live earlier this year. The band managed to mix energizing melodic death metal with highly atmospheric, enchanting, and melancholic progressive passages and especially...

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Crematory - Antiserum (2014) - Too much of a routine job - 52% (27/05/14)

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You really know what to expect when you’re listening to a Crematory record. Germany’s most popular gothic metal band comes around with simple song writing structures put into catchy mid tempo songs between three and five minutes. The band mixes crunchy...

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The Samans - Whalesong (2012) - A step back into a hypnotiying musical ocean - 70% (01/07/13)

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The third output about creatures and legends of the seven seas by the Chinese folk metal band The Samans is disappointing and promising at the same time. Let me explain this paradox. First of all, this new release only includes sixteen minutes of music...

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The Samans - Khan (2011) - From the dark king to the bloodthirsty Khan - 85% (01/07/13)

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With their second release “Khan”, The Samans go away from the industrial metal and Neue Deutsche Härte driven debut release “Weltreich” and head for a more folk metal driven sound with prominent melodic death and gothic metal elements. Lyrically, the...

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The Samans - Weltreich (2009) - They're not yet the kings of the reich - 65% (01/07/13)

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The Samans is a quite diversified band from Changchun in the province of Jilin in the north-east of the People’s Republic of China. The band has released three records and has recently gone into a folk and melodic death metal direction reminding us of...

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Радиус / Radius - На Полпути / Halfway (2010) - Gothic trademarks with a few modern experiments - 75% (30/06/13)

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Radius is a side project by the Russian singers Vladimir Radionov and Anastasia Simanskaya who already worked together in the melodic power metal band Citadel. Radius are though much more gothic metal inspired but they still have a small heavy and power...

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