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Year: 2007
Genre: Gothic Rock
Country: South Korea
Треклист:
01. Overture 666
02. Deceivers
03. My Own Way
04. Indian Ink Painting
05. Memorial
06. A Doom
07. Chilling Fields
08. Flower Petal
09. Loss, Void
10. Gloomy Street
11. Lament
12. Baghdad Cafe
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Review :
Sometimes mechanical, sometimes organic industrial-goth metal from South Korea, of all off-the-metal-map locales, this eponymous debut is a winner right out of the gate. "Deceivers" sounds like Skinny Puppy paired up with a more talented Marilyn Manson. "My Own Way" and "Chilling Fields" summon One Second-era Paradise Lost in all its dance-floored, sold out glory (which is fine by me, I might add) and the main riff of "Loss, Void" sounds like it was grafted straight from the hip of Black Sabbath’s Vol. 4. The adherence to simple, catchy songcraft is a welcome respite in these latter days of gorging orchestration and ornate pretense, although I'd wager that some of that comes from an acknowledgment of goth-punk influence alongside the usual goth-metal suspects. Hey, whatever gets 'em through the night. Great production and mix, appropriate mystery and atmosphere... I can't wait to see what they'll do next, especially if they record another native-language masterpiece like title song "A Doom" (which means "darkness" for the rest of us). [The album gets] docked a full point for the Middle East-by-numbers synthdustrial stomp of closer "Baghdad Café."
written by Matthew Kirshner
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