Customer Reviews

Suspiria

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When it comes to female fronted gothic style metal, this cd has got to be one of the most haunting and intense of them all. It actually reminds me of early 1970's Black Sabbath, (the first band ever to attempt this sound successfully) if you had replaced Ozzy Osbourne with a female vocalist.
It's the one cd to play while reading your favorite Stephen King horror novel, preferably by candlelight on a dark and stormy winter's night, or better yet to play while reading the origional horror master, H.P. Lovecraft. Great contrasts between the male backing bass/baritone vocals and the female soprano's lead vocals are the key here, as well as some steady but heavy guitars. Also no male growling vocals, which is a pleasant change. A five star effort!

I have been into the European Gothic metal scene for a few years now. We don't have anything this good in the USA. Too bad. Anyways, this cd--Susperia I would put into my top five Gothic metal cd's of all time. Extremely melodic, the female vocals have that german accent edge which makes them so special. The male vocals are deep; kinda like the ones on Type O Negative, or Beseech. You can understand all the words. Good poetry throughout. If you are a little curious about european gothic metal, this is a good place to start. Highly recomended.

I love this album. For those of you who like gothic music as well as death metal this is for you. The female operatic vocals are simple yet elegant. The lack of over-production gives the music a quality that reminds me of early death metal like Hellhammer. It steers away from the more commercial metal sounding Nightwish and heads more in the direction of Tristania and Sisters of Mercy.

This band really have great potential they play really good music on the album Suspiria. Sure, that's not too much fresh music, it seems to be a mixture of Tristania, Theatre of Tragedy(early), Within Temptation, Nightwish, The Gathering. They have their unique sound, the keyboard never stops and the riffs of the guitars are heavy and to not forget the wonderful voice of Alexandra(an angel). It's a very contrasting music, you can call it Gothic metal but on my opinion there is a lack of grunts vocals(clear vocals of a male in Gothic metal are less interesting.)

I've collected metal albums for 17 years. Out of the 1000 CDs I own, this is one of the best. Darkwell sits next to my Moonspell, Dreadful Shadows, Type O Negative, Left Hand Solution, The Gathering, Dead Can Dance, Vintersorg, Samael, Bjork, the Kovenant, Marilyn Manson and Nightwish. It is Enthrone Darkness Triumphant kind of inspirational.

The band has a good sound with nice vocals and seem talented. I liked track 1 & 2 but once past that the rest of the album sounds like one long song. This is my first album by Darkwell so I'm not able to compare what they did on others but this album needs some variety. The omnidirection of this album is it's down fall.

While I am a fan of Nightwish, Tristania, Theatre of Tradegy which are all GREAT Bands wish Original music to offer. only thing that ties all these bands together is they are all metal and they all have very powerfully vocaled female leadsingers. Yet they all have a different way of expressing their voice. So to really compare all of them isn't really fair. These bands I'm sure have all been around long before Nightwish actually blew the top off this style of metal, but for me personally great cd haven't been able to stop listening to it since I bought it. I Reccomend if you like female vocalists and a little more harmonic edge of metal this is definitely a great band to check out