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Reviewed
by: Darklight
This
is a dark and haunting gothic band that include quite a lot of variety
on this release. The album opens with "Live @ The Scene" which
is a rather fast paced dark electro instrumental. It pulls you in right
away and is a good way to start things off. However, track two "Silver
Nails" slows things down a lot with a drab, dull and repetitive
musical approach that is dreary combined with whispering female vocals.
Track three "Waiting For The End" is a more traditional old
school goth rock song that sounds a lot like Human Drama. The music
is less electronic and more organic with guitars, bass, heavy drum beats
and clean well sung male vocals. It moves along at a medium pace and
is a nice listen overall. Track four "Cain Or An Open Vein"
is a slightly upbeat song with acoustic instruments and a funky vibe
with both male and female vocals. It's rather structured without any
electro elements. Track five "Slaughterhaus X" livens things
up a bit with a horror feel and a chilling delivery with eerie male
vocals and female screaming in the background. It's a heavier song with
guitars, but also has its more orchestrated moments with dramatic keyboard
melodies. It's a great song. Track six "Pour Paris" is slow
paced and moody created mainly with bass, drums and harmonic keyboards.
The vocals are female and sing very dreary. I find the song to be rather
repetitive and boring. Track seven "Dead Quiet" has a dark
mood and a heavy feel with rough guitar riffs and a fairly fast paced
energy to it. The vocals are male for the most part with the occasional
female singing for the chorus of the song. It's another one of the songs
that I like a lot here. Track eight "Monsters" is a very fast
paced and heavy rock song with thrashy guitars and electronic rhythms
and beats combined with male vocals singing along to the music perfectly.
Track nine "Time After Time" is a gothic cover of the Cyndi
Lauper classic. While it's good, I feel that it could have been polished
a little more. Track ten "Speaking Tongues" is a haunting
song with dark orchestrated music and chilling male and female vocals.
Track eleven "Elijah" is one of the catchier songs here that
is very layered created with various instruments and both male and female
singing with the structure of the song perfectly. Track twelve "Needle
Dreams" is very fast paced and dramatic with guitars, drums and
keyboards mixed with hyper female singing. It's a great goth rock song.
Track thirteen "Anthem" is a more traditional goth song created
with dreary music and clean deep male singing. It's rather slow paced
and is a good way to end the album. While there really isn't a bad track
to be found here, I do feel that some do stand out more than others.
I think that this album will appeal to fans of more older style goth
music. I myself kind of lean more toward new style electro goth with
a lot of industrial influences. There really isn't enough electro elements
here to satisfy me. But fans of traditional goth style music will enjoy
this album a lot.
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