Nataly Kruger - Promise Of Darkness (2011) - Edgy and refreshing slideshow through the genre - 79% (22/02/11)

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There were two reasons why I actually decided to check out this album. Actually, I have grown up with the gothic scene though I feel personally more addicted to the metal scene and wanted to try out some new gothic metal stuff, especially as it comes...

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The Old Dead Tree - The Nameless Disease (2003) - One of the most intense debut albums ever - 95% (09/02/11)

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Even though this album has not yet the intensity and consistence of the amazing milestone "The perpetual motion", this first album was already a big hint and showed us what would await us two years later. "The nameless disease" has a very intellectual,...

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The Old Dead Tree - The Water Fields (2007) - A dumb lack of intensity but still pretty solid - 77% (08/02/11)

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After two true masterpieces, something went wrong on this album. I have some problems to describe exactly what it is. It's not a musically bad album or something unusual that wouldn't fit to the band as the typical trademarks are still present, but I...

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Angtoria - God has A Plan For Us All (2006) - Background music for Gothics in love - 65% (20/12/10)

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If you take a look on the ugly cover and get to know that the female singer collaborates closely to Cradle of Filth, you expect a very dark, depressive and gore piece of Gothic Metal. But when the curtains falls you discover average keyboard orientated...

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Atargatis - Nova (2007) - Interesting elements but not straight or catchy - 71% (20/12/10)

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Only one year after their first official disc, the band came up with a new record. Basically, nothing has changed: Stephanie Luzie sounds as good as on the last record, the topics about nature and environment are the key eleents of this record and the...

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Atargatis - Wasteland (2006) - "Environ-Metal" with ups and downs - 72% (20/12/10)

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Here comes another female fronted Symphonic Metal band from Europe. What distinguishes this band from most of the other ones is the interesting connection to the topic of environment and nature and the underground flair of this first official album. Some...

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Lacuna Coil - Shallow Life (2009) - Plastic Goth - 10% (20/12/10)

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If I had to describe this album with only two words, I would call it "Plastic Goth". I really liked the some of the earlier Gothic Rock songs the band made and even the more commercial "Karmacode" had still some experiments and original moments. "Shallow...

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The Old Dead Tree - The Perpetual Motion (2005) - Progressive Gothic Metal At Its Very Best - 99% (26/10/10)

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This album is in the top 3 of my favourite metal albums of all time. In this moment, I would class this album on the second position just after The Vision Bleak's "Carpathia - A dramatic poem". I personally think that 2005 has been the greatest metal...

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Eden Weint Im Grab - Trauermarsch nach Neotopia (2008) - Gothic! - 80% (17/10/10)

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"Eden weint im Grab" is the project of the creative multiinstrumentalist and singer Alexander Paul Blake who creates a very creepy and dark atmosphere on this very poetic and haunting album "Trauermarsch nach Neotopia". The album is much diversified and...

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The Vision Bleak - Set Sail To Mystery (2010) - Nearly as strong as their first two albums - 92% (17/10/10)

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After the weaker "The wolves go hunt their prey" that had many heavier and thrash influenced passages and less harmonic, symphonic and magic moments, The Vision Bleak decided to not follow the path of commercial heaviness but to create another atmospheric...

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