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Millennium Done I: Empire Songs

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The Merry Thoughts are what you listen to when you want to hear new Sisters Of Mercy material -- They sound exactly (and I mean EXACTLY) like Sisters. One could dismiss this band for this save for the fact the Sisters have only put out three full length releases in nearly 20 years. Oh well, someone's gotta do it. And The Merry Thoughts at least do it well.

This German gothic rock act take the Sisters of Mercy's 1990s, more rock and metal-orientated sound and do it a hell of a lot better! SECOND GENERATION you could be forgiven for thinking it was a rewrite of VISION THING(SOM's last LP title track), YOU CAME is a great throwback the The Mission's earlier sound, THE PALE EMPRESS is a perennial goth disco dancefloor filler with its power-chord guitar riffing and DREAMLAND is a great starter track which they always play first live. Grabs your aural attention and never lets up! An essential release for all you goths(or has-beens like me!) out there, young or old!

actually it deserves 4 and a half star rating and indeed,
Arkham and Co. do pretty much sound like sisters of mercy,
in fact they are even better!! this is goth/industrial music at its best (although i HATE labeling music). this is great sounding music. period. main highlights are Pale Empress, Stars (what a great tune, and so reminiscent of some stuff by the monumental Cruxshadows), You came, Scars and the superb Second Generation. the remaining 2 or 3 songs are somewhere between average and good so there's practically no filler stuff in this 50+ minute full length. pretty hard to find too but worth every cent. go fetch! (:

Then, you found them. Unless I am sadly mistaken, Eldritch has attempted to pursue the sound of the Sisterhood with a bit more maturity. Great stock for hardcore Sisters Fans, even if I am wrong. Too bad Sisters doesn't sound this good anymore.

This gets hated on, I'm sure, by TSOM fans who see it as a blatant ripoff of Eldritch and especially the latter-day incarnation of the band a la Vision Thing. And it does sound like a band imitating TSOM during Vision Thing.

It's also pretty good...since The Sisters aren't glutting the market with new product (or any product), if you like that sound, the driving drum machine, heavy metal guitars, and the voice (not unbearable here, but just a clone), this gets the job done. Catchy, yes. Second Generation, Pale Empress, Dreamland, Glory Boys are the faster, more driving guitar numbers, very Sisters-esque. Overall, it's almost as good as Psychocult, but more one-dimensional in the sound.

If you like TSOM, you'll either enjoy it as a passable, imitative band with some good tunes and a none-too-dramatic attitude about it all, or you'll just hate it as third-rate German goth-guitar-whatever-rock. But since Eldritch is a German-phile and has been accused of this sound and that, it's not that surprising...