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All the Beauty

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This album is something quite different from all other goth albums. Their style is more stripped down compared to all of the other goth bands who go for complicated arrangements. Here, Kat is the star, as well as the other members of the band who do a very good job of translated the feelings of the theme into music.

You can go from soft songs, such as "Beautiful One", which seems to have nothing much to do with dark metal until you hear the out of phase keyboard and notice the dark, somber tone.

Most of the songs are decently hard, with crunchy guitars and heavy drums, contrasted with Kat's voice. This is a group that will not be subject to the common comparisons to Theatre of Tragedy and The Gathering. They're a sound all their own.

When I read the words of the songs I got confused. What the hell is "gothic" here? Love me here, love me there, love me everywhere bla-bla-bla. But when I've first listened to this album, I really saw "all the beauty". The melodies are good, beautiful and depressing, the Cat's voice is great.
My favorite songs: All the Beauty, In the Sun, I Want to Die, Mortally Beloved.
if you like gothic metal with female vocalist, this is definitly for you.

All the beauty is part of the 3 album trilogy from Mortal Love.
Singer Catherine Nyland's beautiful voice blends perfectly with the slow, atmospheric keyboards. Of course, I rate this a five star album!

I liked this album so much I ordered the next two Mortal Love albums immediately. If you like bands such as Elis, Within Temptation, Leaves' Eyes, After Forever, etc. then you will not be disappointed with Mortal Love.

I must agree with the other reviewer. Here we have excelent and catchy melodies, nice keyboards, awesome guitar riffs, drums and great vocals from Cat. If you like gothic metal you will not be disappointed. I can't wait to get their second album. If you want to know more about them, visit http://www.mortallove.com

A butterfly with broken wings, this is the image of a non reprocal love and the one of a soul that pines away trying to achieve something that is no longer hers; how impalpaple are the wings of a butterfly so it's love; when this cold and insesible world, as a sadistic divertissment causes pain, it perceives how fragile the wings of a butterfly are and break `em down but without killing her; a slow agony and the sufferings take place of love in a real way. Mortal Love from Norway, with the ethereal Cat as singer, are the flag-bearer of this butterfly, probably beacuse they felt on their skins this feeling and they tried to exorcize putting it to music; the indie label Massacre tries to re-launch herself after having discovered in the early 90's and made Europe screams for a miracle with Theatre of Tragedy (now only a pale shadow of their own). This combo plays, helped also during the recordings by some sessionmen, a kaleidscopic gothic metal in the best tradition of act as Theatre of Tragedy or the Gathering during the Mandylion era ,their more metal but also more suffered period, or the pining one with Nighttime Birds. The cd is based on eight tracks and each track has "middle-long" lenght, abot five minuets or more till the "pièce de résistance" I WANT TO DIE of a length about nine minutes. Everything starts in a smooth and ethereal way with "All the beauty" where Cat holds the listener spellbound, then she passes to assail with her voice and the band in "Crave your Love", where the anxiety for a loss, for the bitterness of parting begins to be unceasing; from "Beautiful One" to "Falling for you" and "in the Sun" the tragedy of leaving accomplishes, and the man who's leaving his beloved while entranching behind a screen of excuses (I love another one,I don't love you anymore, I want that we remain friends, we have to maintan contacts).In "Hate to Feel" the hate that she feels is not only against her beloved, parted one, but also against herself because she hates to feel, she hates to feel sensible, and in this song is where Mortal Love reache the acme of their bittterness with a "power goth" songs with where the whip is in Cat's vocal chords and the guitars and the rhythmic section create all around a wall of sound, harmonic but sad..."I want to die" asks only to be listened to bringing to the epiloge of this story the listener with a Cat that transforms hate and greed in love, love till death for her beloved one, till the extreme consequences! Mortally Beloved closes the cd that is a living manifesto of the gothic metal scene perhaps it prepares the road for a new born little star in the darkened gothic sky!

Simply amazing, this is a really good album and Cat's voice is so beautiful! I really, really recomend this album!