Fall of Shadows
Jul 17 2007, 23:19:22

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Artist: Ethereal Travel
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Album: The Mad Cartridge
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Year: 1997
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Genre: Doom/Gothic/Pagan Metal
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Country: Turkiye
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Format: mp3@256
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Size: 65 Мб.
Tracklist:
01. Law of Soul Pulling 02:36
02. Closed 04:05
03. Esperanto 04:28
04. Mirror Man 04:55
05. Hunger 05:09
06. Spanish Fly 03:13
07. Bells 03:32
08. Neverending Poem 08:31
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Total playing time: 36:29
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Jul 18 2007, 18:29:50
АААааааа, спасите, безумный картридж!!! о_О
ghostyara
Jul 19 2007, 19:33:49
таак товарисчи..
хоть и написано что это готик-паган-фолк - не ведитесь, этоне так..
турецкая группа.. на альбоме - не более чем рок, но красивый рок. запись - не очень, многа лажают. ну это фигня все.. музыка просто отличная=) я, кстати, давно ищу инфу про эту группу, еслиу вас есть что то - киньте сюда или в аську 275732760.
по ходу у них только 1 альбом (этот=)).
вот рецензия с буржуйского сайта:
Very weak - 35%
Written by kellyosbournesdick on September 24th, 2005
This album was presented by The Ethereal Travel's label as "Gothic Doom Rock" or something along those lines. What we have here, is your basic melodic, trippy Hard Rock with female vocals and some violins here and there, but this has nothing to do with doom and gothic genres.
The album starts quite promising with the folksy and up tempo first track which falls short because of its rather short lenght and lack of climax, and the horrible guitar solo at its finale (which I must say, is a common thing in the whole album - the solos are dreadful). Violins are a nice touch, female vocalist can't control her voice very well and falls out of tune in some places (on the whole album actually), but she has a nice voice. The next track is arguably the best one on the album, quite simple but melancholic and effective. And from there, the album goes straight down to hell.
"Mirror Man" is horrible with its amazingly horrible solos and childish chorus. "Hunger" is a very 80s Hard Rock tune that sounds out of place on the album and it doesn't work. By the way, did I mention that the guitarist also sings on a few songs? Well - imagine the most horrible German power metal vocalist and still it is nowhere near as bad as this. "Bells" is once again very simple and effective in a way, with Poe's poem of the same title used as lyrics, but every emotion the song builds up gets eventually destroyed by the "...said Edgar Allen Poe" line at the end of the song. I mean - hell, what were you thinking?!?
The production is weak; problems with drum sounds, dry sounding guitars, bad mixing. And what's unbelieveable to me is that the instruments sound out of tune in quite a few places. Which doesn't help much in case of the weak production, the bad songwriting and the negatively loose performance.
Overall, this album (probably) looked good on paper but the theory doesn't work in practice here, especially because of the lack of talent in guitar department and the lack of experience in vocals. The album has its -very few- moments but at the end of the day, this is just a waste of time.
вообщем еще разок повторюсь - если что есть по группе - оч прошу в аську...
gavox
Dec 2 2021, 00:11:38
anyone reupload, link deleted...