Driven

Orphanage | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 15, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Nuclear Blast Americ
• ASIN: B0001NPUC4
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #532,447 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent mixture between gohic and death..., March 31, 2005

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Pablosa (Buenos Aires, Capital Federal Argentina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Driven (Audio CD)

What caught most my attention about this album is the combination of different styles. Combines gutural voices with female gothic-oriented vocals. But I found Orphanage hard to label if someone asked me. Black metal?! Doom?? Death metal?! Gothic??! A little bit of everything. Orphanage plays mostly mid tempos, without speeding too much, but sometimes slowing it a bit, reaching to a more doomy approach. Is not as brutal nor fast as Emperor, but it does have fine orchestral and gothic arrangements. And, why not, adding a progressive and modern input in their music with keyboards and synths.

The main vocalist is Gorefest and Dan Swano oriented. It's a little monotonous, and so is the female vocalist. However, the duo managed to add more versatility to an already versatile band with excellent musicians. I don't know why the band sticked too much to the mid tempos. I mean, the few parts in which they decided to speed up, it just fitted perfectly with Orphanage's style, with punishing riffing guitars and precise drumming.

But don't get me wrong, having a female vocalist and a gothic approach, doesn't mean the band loses heaviness. On the other hand, the band never leaves their death metal side.

Anyway, If you're into any the styles before mentioned, or simple like well done music, you should give "Driven" a try.

4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining, April 22, 2010

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Luke "When hello ended, you let me go..." (Delta, CO) - See all my reviews

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This cd does not disappoint. Sure the female vocals aren't that great but they are kept to a minimum which is good but George oosthoeck's vocals are pretty awesome and the music is just in your face and powerful. Highly recommended for fans of doom and gothic metal.

5.0 out of 5 stars For all fans of Female Fronted Orchestral Metal bands, April 7, 2007

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James E. Schafer "hightideebay" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Driven (Audio CD)

I now have all three of their albums. All great. Imaginative Prog Metal, actually. Kind of like The Gathering with a growling male singer. More uptempo. Love them both. Also kinda like AESMA DAEVA . I Love Therion the most but these are also great bands : Sins of They Beloved , Asrai , MacBeth (tho a bit more Gothic) , Theatre of Tregedy (hit and miss but worth the effort). Of the other over-rated but still pretty good bands in this genre : Nightwish, Within Temptation, Tristania/Sirenia (except "World of Glass" album : WOW! solid A+). Skip Lacuna Coil. More of a hard rock band than a metal band and next to no orchestral influence.