Sirenia - An Elixir for Existence
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Free Music Review: Lovely Album
Hit: 5 Stars
A very good album. Their nothing in this album that would really dissapoint the listener. The lyrics are very well written as well as the music. Morten vocals are very powerful in this album. I love Henritte vocals, even though she wouldn't sing a lot, but its really good. Favorite song out of it is Lithium and a Lover amd Euphoria.Free Music Review: Lacuna Coil doesnt have anything on Sirenia! (4.3 stars)
Hit: 4 Stars
This album is very enjoyable and relaxing with some good heavier part thrown in. Which is how good Gothic Metal should sound. Not like the processed commercial sound that pathetic excuse for a Gothic Metal band Lacuna Coil has.
This album is exactly what you would be looking for in a Gothic Metal band. Good, growly Black Metal vocals coming from a male, and a sweet symphonic angels voice coming from a beautiful female singer, along with some good guitar riffs and cool yet relaxing electronic, keyboard, and piano sounds. Theres even some violin play in the songs!!!
The only thing bothering me about this album is the structure of all the songs go in the same pattern. Growly vocals, then clear. Or growly, clear, growly, clear. The songs become predictable in that vocal sense. But in every other aspect this album is a fine example of todays Gothic Metal. I strongly reccommend it.
Suck it up Lacuna Coil. You lose.
Free Music Review: THE SIREN'S SONG
Hit: 3 Stars
First of all, I want to say that this band is very appropriately named. Sirens were the part-woman part-birds (sea nymph) that sang sailors to their doom by misleading them. And the cover art to this album (all of their albums, in fact) IS misleading. With sirens being female and a female being shown on the cover, one would think that this is another female-led band like Within Temptation or Nightwish.
Not so!
Fortunately I read the Amazon reviews before I bought it, so I didn't get misled. I was hoping for a female-lead for this group, since that's what it looked like at first, but I also don't mind growling every now and then. And to Morten Veland's credit, he growls his lyrics coherently. I've seen too many bands with lyrics written down and then when they sing them it's like "agjalghuahj?hahg!!!"
As for the female singer, she only sings about two or four lines per song, even if she gets a song all to herself (Save Me From Myself). She's not bad, but she can't compare to Tarja from Nightwish or Sharon from Within Temptation.
There are only three songs on this CD that I liked: "Lithium and a Lover" has great, catchy background music and good lyrics, male growling, female singing, and a choir. This one is my favorite.
"In My Darkest Hour" has some great guitar work at the beginning and they repeat it about halfway through the song.
"The Fall Within" has background music that sounds almost exactly like that from "Lithium and a Lover", but of course I liked that track so much that more of the same doesn't really hurt.
And that is where my main complaint with this CD lies. I got that annoying sense of Deja Vu when I listened to the background music on several of the songs. They started to sound the same, some of them. And the other songs were not up to my standards. I do appreciate though that they have a purely instrumental piece at the end. Not a very good one, but at least they tried.
If you like growling, the groups that I like to listen to and consider my standards are: Finntroll, Einherjer, and Within Temptation. If you like female vocals more than you should try: Nightwish, Evanescence, and Within Temptation.
Overall, this CD is not all bad. It's convinced me to give their earlier album a try and I'll look forward to their future projects and maybe you will, too.
Free Music Review: Another great Gothic/Death metal band.
Hit: 5 Stars
Sirenia continues to reing on my top ten favourites list. This band is perfect, everything from the guitars, to the epic choir chants. The whole cd is good, buy my favourite songs on this album are: "Lithium And A Lover", "Voices Within", "A Mental Symphony", and "Save Me From Myself". This band's sound is another example of a great combination between Gothic and Death Metal. I personally like Metal bands that use choirs, so naturally Sirenia instantly became one of my favourites. This is a great buy for anyone who is into bands such as "Tristania" "Penumbra", "Nightwish", "Within Temptation", "Ashes You Leave", etc...Free Music Review: What A Rush!
Hit: 4 Stars
Sirenia's debut album At Sixes And Sevens basically left no room for improvement. To Sirenia's credit they have made a few minor changes but kept the quality extremely high for this, thier second release. What you have hear is extremely rich Gothic metal with a mix of growl, clean, female and gothic choir vocals. Both of Sirenia's releases just reek of class which is not easy to do when you heavily utilize growl vocals.
For me the highlight for Sirenia is again the first track of the album. Lithium And A Lover is a driving number that really convices with it's outstanding lyrics and passionate vocal delivery. Comparing to At Sixes And Seven's lead track "Meridian" this one is a bit more straight forward and the same could be said for the whole album.
I did not want to give a full 5 stars because I feel this album is not quite as strong as the debut and not quite as spellbinding regarding the atmosphere and female vocals. Nonetheless, 4 and a half stars would not be a stretch at all.
Sirenia is a one of a kind band IMO and both releases are manditory of you have any use at all for Gothic style metal. So, so classy.
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