Uneasy Listening Vol. 1 is daftly titled because some H.I.M. detractors will find occasional treasures in this easy listening genre. It’s been called goth metal and love metal yet goth pop is entirely more appropriate and, here, nearer adult contemporary than anything else. A positive is the press release claim that lead man, Ville Valo, [...]
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Tiamat – Commandments (6.5/10)
Despite TIAMAT’s 20 year career, i’d only heard the occasional song with the exception of one full release, the positive Wildhoney. So when i received a stack of CDs from the record labels, i was pleased enough to find Commandments, a Century Media released anthology, that i immediately popped it in the hi-fi. I felt [...]
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Samael – Aeonics (An Anthology) (7/10)
SAMAEL may not be master musicians but lyric strength grew over time, questioning in interesting directions whilst the music, always an ambience of some sort, moved from a brooding beginning to a classical present. It’s about love and dissolution, joy and pain, emotions that don’t conflict but instead find balance even though the contrasting tools are the likes of Shiva, Baphomet, the koran and the bible.
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