Lycanthia-Oligarchy-2013-GRAVEWISH

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   ░  ██    ██     Artist: Lycanthia                              ██    ██
   ▓   █░░ ■█       Album: Oligarchy                               █■ ░░█
   ■    █▓▀ █        Year: 2013                                    █ ▀▓█   ░
         █  ▓   Rel. Date: 2013-11-09                              ▓  █
        ▒   ▒       Genre: Metal                                   ▒   ▒
         █▄ ░       Label: Hypnotic Dirge Records                  ░ ▄█
      ░   █▄  ░    Source: CD                                    ░  ▄█
      ░      █▓      Type: Album                                 ▓█        ░
      ▓       █   Quality: VBR, 44.1kHz, Joint Stereo            █   ░     ▓
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            █  Formed in 1996, Lycanthia carries with them a       █
            █  history spanning 17 years and are one of            █
            █  Australia's oldest surviving doom metal bands.      █
            █  A six piece band hailing from Sydney, Lycanthia     █
            █  plays traditional gothic death-doom metal with a    █
            █  strong emphasis on atmosphere, melody, and the      █
            █  captivating use of alternating male growls and      █
            █  female soprano vocals. Comparisons could be drawn   █
            █  between Lycanthia and the sound found in the early  █
            █  "golden age" works of classic gothic doom bands     █
            █  such as My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost, Draconian,   █
            █  and Theatre of Tragedy.                             █
            █  A flagship of this particular sound is the          █
            █  contrast between dark, aggressive, and heavy        █
            █  death-doom and softer moments courtesy of female    █
            █  vocals, keyboards, and violin arrangements and      █
            █  Lycanthia does this extraordinarily well. The       █
            █  growls courtesy of founding member and bassist Lee  █
            █  Tassaker is a definite strong point of the album,   █
            █  and he's accompanied very nicely with the poignant  █
            █  female vocals from both the violinist and           █
            █  keyboardist, Vanessa Black and Megan Tassaker       █
            █  respectively.                                       █
            █  The vocal work is complimented nicely by six very   █
            █  competent musicians all working towards a heavy,    █
            █  despairing, and powerfully melancholic sound and a  █
            █  production quality that does the songwriting        █
            █  justice. Mastered by Jens Bogren at Fascination     █
            █  Street Studios (Opeth, Katatonia).                  █
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            █  Lee Tassaker - bass  vocals                         █
            █  Vanessa Black - violin & vocals                     █
            █  Megan Robins - keyboards & vocals                   █
            █  Stephen Mikulic - guitars                           █
            █  Mathew Newton - guitars                             █
            █  Lachlan Donaldson - drums                           █
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            ░  1.  The Essential Components of Misery        9:21  ░
            ░  2.  Eternity...                               1:51  ░
            ░  3.  Forgone                                   7:36  ░
            ░  4.  Ablaze the Wheel Turns                    6:08  ░
            ░  5.  Despondency in Crescendo                 10:01  ░
            ░  6.  Time Feeds This Wound                     6:38  ░
            ░  7.  Hair of the Beast                         5:21  ░
            ░  8.  From Ancestral Lands                      6:38  ░
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