Anathema back catalog
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Topic: Anathema back catalog
Posted By: infocat
Subject: Anathema back catalog
Date Posted: April 15 2015 at 00:14
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K-Scope is having a sale on pretty much the entire Anathema catalog, both on CD and vinyl: https://www.burningshed.com/store/kscope/collection/5/add/6527/" rel="nofollow - https://www.burningshed.com/store/kscope/collection/5/ I have only their last three (their latest excluding Falling Deeper), so it seems it might be a good time to collect some more. I'm certain to get everything from Eternity through A Natural Disaster (on CD). I'm less certain on The Silent Enigma and especially Serenades, being solely doom metal and (apparently) little to no prog. That being said, I do like some doom metal and can generally tolerate, if not particularly appreciate, harsh vocals. Any advice? ------------- -- Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth. |
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Posted By: Pastmaster
Date Posted: April 15 2015 at 00:19
I personally have never enjoyed their offerings after A Fine Day to Exit, too soft and mellow for me personally. My favorite of theirs is The Silent Enigma, I highly recommend it if you do enjoy doom metal. That and Serenades are among my favorite doom albums. It's pretty atmospheric, so in ways it does have a few qualities of their later albums. 
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Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: April 15 2015 at 00:23
`The Silent Enigma' is ferocious! Vincent doesn't excatly growl, but there's this feral, scratchy harsh quality to his voice. It's a great, plodding gloomy dirge-like metal album, with plenty of proggy ambitions starting to emerge. Highly recommended!  `Crestfallen' (the debut EP) and `Serenades' are more pure doom metal, but there's nice acoustic interludes, and the later even has a very somber synth/orchestrated extended drone to close on. Both have rather beautiful, sadly romantic lyrics, which bring an unexpected fragile quality to them. If they're dirt cheap, grab all of those ones! |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 15 2015 at 01:34
| Judgement , A Natural Disaster and A Fine Day To Exit are all good although Weather Systems and Were Here Because Were Here soundly trounce them in my book. I don't have anything earlier though. I have a feeling I picked up Judgement and A Natural Disaster on one of those 2 on 1 box sets so its worth looking out for that if you can find it. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: April 15 2015 at 17:51
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Listen to what you get first before thinking of going further back in time. If you like Alt-fore and Etermity you can then get The Silent Egnima and then perhaps Sarah Nades and the Crestlaffen EP. If, as a result, you miss the K-Scope sale you can still pick up those three cheaply on Amazin. Personally The Silent Egnima is my favourite Anathelma album, but that's just me. ------------- What? |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 16 2015 at 01:49
| Yep true about Amazon and I've just ordered Silent Enigma from one of their sellers ( The CD + DVD version) for a reasonable price. It might take a week or so for it to come but if this thread is still alive at that time I will give my opinion on it. |
Posted By: zeitgeist
Date Posted: May 05 2015 at 05:40
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If Judgment does the trick for you, then certainly also Alternative 4, hardly a weak moment on that release, rocking but sophisticated stuff...
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: May 06 2015 at 02:54
| Listened to Silent Enigma over the weekend. I would say tentatively that I quite liked it. The growling is not that overdone and there is a richness to the sound. I would need several listens to really see how it would settle though. Hard to compare to more recent Anathema obviously. Oh and some nice female vocal bits if I recall correctly. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 06 2015 at 05:03
I tend to regard Silent Enigma as one of a pair with My Dying Bride's Turn Lose the Swans ... both being of not-dissimilar UK gothic/doom metal albums that, along with Paradise Lost's Draconian Times and Opeth's Orchid, marked 1995 as pivotal year for metal in musical direction and in the toning-down of the death metal growl into something more sonorous (and, it has to be said, more intelligible). ------------- What? |
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