“When all the world decides that we’re not worth anything.” THE AWAKENING’s 7th goth album reinforced why they were so popular in the underground music scene of South Africa. It was Rene Descartes who said, “I think, therefore I am”. THE AWAKENING emotes, senses, mourns and celebrates. Therefore they are. With songs such as the [...]
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H.I.M. – Uneasy Listening Vol. 1 – 5/10
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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