Can someone help me with these bands?

[SoundMaster]

I've read & heard many great reviews concerning the following bands & CDs. Can anyone here offer an opinion(s) on any of these? Are they worth investing in?

Nightingale - Still Alive
(I've heard that this is a great melodic album, but the samples I've heard remind me more of 80s cheese-hair metal?!??!)

Thine - In Therapy
(I've read a review that stated that this album is quite similar to Anathema's "Judgement")

Star of Ash
(is this any good? Or is it too wierd for it's own good, as Peccatum is?)

Maudlin of the Well
(many compare them to Opeth. Is that a fair, warranted comparison?)

 

[Ghost Tears]

Nightingales album is "Alive Again" which is their new one which is excelent and sounds nothing like 80's cheese hair metal. There was a thine song on a peaceville sampler i once had and kinda reminded me a bit of Katatonia music wise and Anathema vocally. I would reccomend Nightingale though.

 

[Lunatic_Fringe]

maudlin of the well is an odd band... Yet awesome. I wouldnt really compare them to Opeth. Maudlin has a more broad music range. Bath is an awesome album...

 

[ChromeLife]

Maudlin is far more experimental than Opeth... I urge you to check it out.. everythin they have is brilliant.

 

[discouraged1]

I have listened to Thine's In Therapy and it has a sense of AFDtE, but in a lot more britpop way. Which is not a bad thing. But at times can be a bit boring, lalala melancholia type of thingy....
Worth checking out I guess.

 

[Love Conquers All]

Stars of Ash is the best release of all these you've mention.

 

[panzergrinder]

In Dan Swanö-forum you find more information about Nightingale and other his bands.

 

[COnsiderateApathy]

Stars of Ash is the best release of all these you've mention.

Man, I couldn't get into that Star Of Ash album at all, and I really like Peccatum. Oh well.

Nightingale is far from 80s cheese metal... more closely aligned with prog rock. Their "Alive Again" is amazing, and is in constant rotation in my CD player. It's a wonderful, emotional, full album. "Shadowman" and "Eternal" are two of my favorite songs. Ever. They give me goosebumps.


Maudlin Of The Well is definitely more experimental than Opeth, but their music is quite fulfilling. Both 'Bath' and 'Leaving Your Body Map' are excellent releases and go hand in hand. I can't say about any of their other albums, I haven't heard them yet.


NP - Katatonia - 'Burn The Remembrance'

 

[Love Conquers All]

Man, I couldn't get into that Star Of Ash album at all, and I really like Peccatum. Oh well.

well, it's becouse you like Peccatum... try to consider the fact that's completely different band, and forget about Peccatum)

 

[Demonspell]

Alive Again (listening to Eternal right now) and all three MOTW albums are worthy purchases...Star Of Ash I need to hear more of.

 

[_Transparent_]

trust your gut instinct on those Alive Again samples, if you dont like them then i dont see a point in getting the album, havent heard the samples but if you dont like them whats the point in getting the album. not sure what cheese hair is, but i thought it was a bit cheesey for my tastes, get Dan Swano - moontower instead if you havent got that, or maybe some edge of sanity stuff.

 

[discouraged1]

I listened to a song of Star of Ash yesterday, and I dunno, it reminds me of an attempt to clone The 3rd & the Mortal's In This Room, which uis impossible IMO.
Perhaps it is the prejudices(aaaah, what would we do without them?), because I never liked/considered Peccatum as sth serious.
The producers(the Ulver themselves) lived up this album, it would be nothing without them, methinks.

 

[discouraged1]

...though the good thing is that Ihriel has done this by herself, and it is a very brave step to take. for that.