MASTERPIECES:
The Gathering -Mandylion
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Every time I listen to this album I feel like everything of it -the riffs, the lyrics, the melodies of the songs -everything was made for me and nobody else. Unique in it's nature, this album combines doom metal, progressive rock and gothic metal so well that the album sounds as homogenous as it's possible. The Gathering created many great albums after this one, but for me Mandylion is untouchable and impossible to be replicated by anyone. It's magic.
Dark Tranquillity Fiction
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The artwork reflects the album's atmosphere perfectly. You imagine desolated landscapes, ghost towns, gray urban images and not a single beam of light. The album's music is a glorification of the Gothenburg death metal sound - heavy, yet melodic riffs, menacing, yet understandable growls and Iron Maiden inspired guitar solos. But this is not all. Dark Tranquillity also finally perfect the usage of keyboards they started in Haven. They improved the specific style of riffing from Damage Done. They improved the driving melodies from Character. This album even features female vocals on the final track, The Mundane And The Magic[track], for the first time since The Mind's I, and are executed much better.
The best that Dark Tranquillity has ever done is here. This album sums up their entire career and proves them to be one of the most respectable metal bands.
Angel Dust Enlighten The Darkness
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A concept album about a soldier's thoughts on war and how he gets to take human lives away with no judgement, his nostalgia to his past life and how death is what humanity deserves for it's deeds. The music is speed/power metal, greatly inspired from Savatage and Dio. It's power metal without all the flaws power metal usually has -this album is not cheesy, predictable, does not overuse keyboards or high pitched screams, and is very much mature. The perfect power metal album.
3 The End Is Begun
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This album here is art rock in it's purest form. Both dark and very unencumbered, joyful yet sad. Combines elements both from Rush and The Beatles, metal and pop music, modern and classic influences but is not pretentious even one bit, quite the opposite. Noone can write catchy hooks like 3 and be progressive at the same time. A must-have album for any progressive rock fan.
Spend your time well before you go.. Here in Hell.
Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
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A dark and organic metal masterpiece. It starts out strong with [track artist=Amesoeurs]Gas in Veins which is a direct attack on the listener combining black metal agression with a post-metal atmosphere. Like with Neige's other projects, this album is a combination of black metal, post-metal, shoegazing and post-punk but for me this is the closest thing to perfection he's ever done. All the tracks are extremely melancholic, emotional, memorable and hard hitting, it's hard for the listener to stay indifferent . Audrey Sylvain's voice is actually the main thing that polarizes some of the Amesoeurs fans. It's a pretty, girly clean singing which transitions to an agressive and punky black metal shriek. I was personally charmed the moment I first heard her sweet voice. She's really emotional and does a really good job on the album, especially considering this is her debut as a singer.
Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
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Tom Warrior created the album of his life exactly 30 years after he started out with Hellhammer and created extreme metal. Eparistera Daimones sounds like a much heavier version of his last album with Celtic Frost, the masterpiece Monotheist. It's an album that crushes you with it's demonic sadness and rage from start to finish. This album summarizes everything Tom has ever done in his career with Hellhammer and Celtic Frost, (except for Cold Lake). This album has brutal thrash metal (A Thousand Lies), crushing doom metal (Goetia and Abyss Within My Soul), avant-garde and gothic metal (In Shrouds Decayed, Myopic Empire), and thrashy black metal (Descendant) and continues his experiments with atmospheric and ambient music (My Pain). This is one of the heaviest and most diverse metal albums the music has seen and is the best Tom Warrior, the father of extreme metal, has ever offered.
The Gathering -Mandylion
Every time I listen to this album I feel like everything of it -the riffs, the lyrics, the melodies of the songs -everything was made for me and nobody else. Unique in it's nature, this album combines doom metal, progressive rock and gothic metal so well that the album sounds as homogenous as it's possible. The Gathering created many great albums after this one, but for me Mandylion is untouchable and impossible to be replicated by anyone. It's magic.
Dark Tranquillity Fiction
The artwork reflects the album's atmosphere perfectly. You imagine desolated landscapes, ghost towns, gray urban images and not a single beam of light. The album's music is a glorification of the Gothenburg death metal sound - heavy, yet melodic riffs, menacing, yet understandable growls and Iron Maiden inspired guitar solos. But this is not all. Dark Tranquillity also finally perfect the usage of keyboards they started in Haven. They improved the specific style of riffing from Damage Done. They improved the driving melodies from Character. This album even features female vocals on the final track, The Mundane And The Magic[track], for the first time since The Mind's I, and are executed much better.
The best that Dark Tranquillity has ever done is here. This album sums up their entire career and proves them to be one of the most respectable metal bands.
Angel Dust Enlighten The Darkness
A concept album about a soldier's thoughts on war and how he gets to take human lives away with no judgement, his nostalgia to his past life and how death is what humanity deserves for it's deeds. The music is speed/power metal, greatly inspired from Savatage and Dio. It's power metal without all the flaws power metal usually has -this album is not cheesy, predictable, does not overuse keyboards or high pitched screams, and is very much mature. The perfect power metal album.
3 The End Is Begun
This album here is art rock in it's purest form. Both dark and very unencumbered, joyful yet sad. Combines elements both from Rush and The Beatles, metal and pop music, modern and classic influences but is not pretentious even one bit, quite the opposite. Noone can write catchy hooks like 3 and be progressive at the same time. A must-have album for any progressive rock fan.
Spend your time well before you go.. Here in Hell.
Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
A dark and organic metal masterpiece. It starts out strong with [track artist=Amesoeurs]Gas in Veins which is a direct attack on the listener combining black metal agression with a post-metal atmosphere. Like with Neige's other projects, this album is a combination of black metal, post-metal, shoegazing and post-punk but for me this is the closest thing to perfection he's ever done. All the tracks are extremely melancholic, emotional, memorable and hard hitting, it's hard for the listener to stay indifferent . Audrey Sylvain's voice is actually the main thing that polarizes some of the Amesoeurs fans. It's a pretty, girly clean singing which transitions to an agressive and punky black metal shriek. I was personally charmed the moment I first heard her sweet voice. She's really emotional and does a really good job on the album, especially considering this is her debut as a singer.
Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
Tom Warrior created the album of his life exactly 30 years after he started out with Hellhammer and created extreme metal. Eparistera Daimones sounds like a much heavier version of his last album with Celtic Frost, the masterpiece Monotheist. It's an album that crushes you with it's demonic sadness and rage from start to finish. This album summarizes everything Tom has ever done in his career with Hellhammer and Celtic Frost, (except for Cold Lake). This album has brutal thrash metal (A Thousand Lies), crushing doom metal (Goetia and Abyss Within My Soul), avant-garde and gothic metal (In Shrouds Decayed, Myopic Empire), and thrashy black metal (Descendant) and continues his experiments with atmospheric and ambient music (My Pain). This is one of the heaviest and most diverse metal albums the music has seen and is the best Tom Warrior, the father of extreme metal, has ever offered.