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?)

 

[Static]

Originally posted by SoundMaster

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

No, because they are incomparable. Even better than Opeth, more creative definately. The best band I have yet encountered in the world of metal. Trust me.

 

[Thanatopsis123]

Nightingale - If anything, get the album "I"

maudlin of the Well - They're very good. Maybe not as good as static would have you believe but very good indeed. I'd say, start with Leaving Your Body Map first. If you like that, then get Bath. My Fruit: Psycho Bells is good but the other two blow it away. You'll be disappointed with MFSB if you hear the others first.

 

[blakmetalemp]

Nightingale are very very very worth owning and hearin. Id recommend all of them as they are a continueing story.

 

[Ghost Tears]

I think you mean "Alive Again" and yes it is very melodic and also very good

p.s my first post

 

[Static]

Originally posted by Thanatopsis123
Maybe not as good as static would have you believe but very good indeed.

Heheh, well you know me, I'm fucking obssessed with them!

 

[ffanatic]

I'm with SoundMaster on this, does ANYONE know ANYTHING about Thine? I can't find MP3's anywhere.

 

[Obyeybyeogone]

Maudlin of the Well is DEFINITELY worth checking out. It's more artsy and less metal than Opeth though (not a bad thing)

 

[insidethefall]

Maudlin Of The Well owns life, although they can be an aquired taste...put My Dying Bride, Current 93 and possibly Opeth (although i dont see many similarities) into a blender together with some weird avant garde jazzy stuff...hmm this might not be a good description...it's unique atmospheric metal, just listen!

 

[ProgMetalFan]

Originally posted by SoundMaster


Nightingale - Still Alive
(remind me more of 80s cheese-hair metal?!??!)

I agree totally. I bought it on the strength of "Shadow Man"... unfortunately the rest of the album bores me.

 

[Ghost Tears]

I had a peaceville sampler with a thine song on it and it reminded me of a mixture of katatonia musically and anathema vocally but not as dark as katatonia

 

[godmachine12]

'Alive Again' is phenomenal. Their best album and one of the best I've ever heard.

 

[Hopkins-WitchfinderGeneral]

Star of Ash are great atmospheric/almost operatic type stuff. A very good CD.

 

[Staffan]

I have every Nightingale except Alive Again... They are all good, though it took a while to like breathing shadow, it has lots of ugly synth stuff and most of the songs has a drum machine

 

[Mountain Man]

In my opinion, the new Nigtingale album: Alive Again is excellent. I have listened to many times since its Jan 28th release. You outta buy it.

 

[Demonspell]

Alive Again may have superficial resemblances to cockrock, but it is played with such passion and conviction that I can safely ignore those tendencies...