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░ ██ ██ Artist: On Thorns I Lay ██ ██
▓ █░░ ■█ Album: Eternal Silence █■ ░░█
■ █▓▀ █ Year: 2015 █ ▀▓█ ░
█ ▓ Rel. Date: 2017-07-18 ▓ █
▒ ▒ Genre: Gothic Rock ▒ ▒
█▄ ░ Label: Sleaszy Rider Records ░ ▄█
░ █▄ ░ Source: CD ░ ▄█
░ █▓ Type: Album ▓█ ░
▓ █ Quality: VBR, 44.1kHz, Joint Stereo █ ░ ▓
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█ People always ask about how many times can a Metal █
█ style live. Indeed it's a question that takes time █
█ to get the right answer: if it can be renewed █
█ without losing its identity, forever. ThatÆs the █
█ reason for bands like BLACK SABBATH, MOTORHEAD, █
█ IRON MAIDEN and many others that are still active █
█ and releasing good albums. █
█ █
█ And the best test to see if the style can endure █
█ great trials is to see how the bands will be after █
█ it comes out of evidence. Imagine some bands after █
█ the prevalence of many styles that we passed since █
█ the middle of the 80s. Sleaze/Glam Metal, Thrash █
█ Metal, Death Metal, Black Metal, Melodic Power █
█ Metal and so on were the trends, but we saw and █
█ still see some of them releasing albums and making █
█ shows, always renewing their music to new █
█ generations. And it's the case from Greek █
█ Doom/Death Metal quintet ON THORNS I LAY, active █
█ since 1995, and is releasing their new album, █
█ "Eternal Silence" after 12 years of their last █
█ work, the album, "Egocentric". █
█ █
█ Their musical style follows in the vein of bands █
█ like MY DYING BRIDE and THEATRE OF TRAGEDY in █
█ their earlier works, but a bit more aggressive and █
█ not using such long songs. But the weight, the █
█ elegant and melodic insight, and some abrasive █
█ moments with guttural vocals, along with █
█ depressive and beautiful moments with keyboards █
█ and/or violins, turn all the things extremely █
█ interesting and good. █
█ █
█ "Eternal Silence" sound quality is very good, █
█ indeed. The production was done in a way that █
█ their musical work sounds pretty clean as they █
█ need, but heavy and nasty in their more aggressive █
█ moments, as well. And the guest musician, Labros █
█ Kiklis on violins, really added some very good █
█ moments to the album. █
█ █
█ Their best feature is to use not so long songs as █
█ we commonly see in the style. One reaches more █
█ than 7 minutes, another one something beyond six █
█ minutes, and the others remains under 4 or 5 █
█ minutes. █
█ █
█ The beautiful "Believe" (with excellent female █
█ vocals in a song melodic and tender, with very █
█ good tempos, and the pace is extremely good), █
█ "Breathing" with its nasty and heavy tempos along █
█ with very good keyboards, the tender and █
█ introspective ones "People We Hurt" (with a strong █
█ work from bass and drums, and once more, fine █
█ female vocals fill the entire song gently) and █
█ "One Day To Live", and the beautiful instrumental █
█ on keyboards and effects "Touching The Unknown" █
█ can be pointed as the album's finest moments, █
█ besides it's pretty good as a whole. █
█ █
█ Very good come back, guys. █
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░ 1. Believe 1:45 ░
░ 2. Breathing 7:43 ░
░ 3. Eternal Silence 4:43 ░
░ 4. Cursed 1:50 ░
░ 5. Life Without You 4:27 ░
░ 6. People We Hurt 6:10 ░
░ 7. Escape From Loneliness 2:24 ░
░ 8. One Day To Live 4:54 ░
░ 9. Touching The Unknown 2:37 ░
░ 36:33 ░
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