You guys should check out some "This Empty Flow" if you can. Their album "Magenta Skycode" from 1996 was just re-released on Eibon records this year as "The Album" and it seriously makes all this other crap "shoegaze metal" like newer Katatonia and Anathema look like UTTER HOPELESS FOOLS
Label - Cold Meat Industry
Format - MCD
Year - 2006
Genre - Apocalyptic Folk, Neofolk
"This surprising new star on the apocalyptic-folk-scene sprouts from the punksing-songwriterrock genres, but is cleaver to set a personal imprint, with obvious influences of course, to a singer-songwriter-apocalyptic-folk music. ROME is about emotive songs that are both catchy and disturbed. The songs awake memories of love and death, with the reoccurring themes of despair and loss, guilt and grief, might and war. With the cynical opening line Once we learned to speak we learned to fail, the band sets a grand colour to this exquisite candy piece of 6 exclusive songs; a teaser to their upcoming full-length CD planned for this autumn. Berlin comes in a very appealing digipak. Rome is neither from Rome, nor Berlin.... If you are the least into ORDO, Coph Nia or DIJ - then this is absolutely worth checking out!"