Widow's Weeds

Tristania

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 17, 2000)
• Original Release Date: October 17, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Napalm
• ASIN: B00004YNBK
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #100,567 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent work from the masters of Atmospheric Gothic metal, December 9, 2000

By	Amr Shokry (Cairo, Egypt) - See all my reviews

This album is the best one Tristania ever made. I would classify it as Atmospheric Gothic Death with Black influences. The music is very heavy and dark and slow to medium paced. The male death grunts and female operatic gregorian vocals are interweaved beautifuly with occasional black screeching vocals. The music is very atmospheric and gives you a feeling of gloominess, mysticism, and darkness. In my opinion the best song on the album is "December Elegy", this song combines the three vocals together; the operatic female, the death grunting male and the background black vocals, and the music is haunting and dark interweaved in a melancholic theme. The song "Wasteland's Caress" has only black vocals with the operatic female ones, with no death grunts and it represents a very good example of Black Gothic Metal. Finally Tristania have made a superb job making this album which is a true combination of death and black influences with Gothic metal. Tristania lovers will also love: Theater of Tragedy, Even Song, Empyrium, Ever Eve, Lacrimosa, and Therion.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best album I own., March 30, 2006

By	A. Hakkarainen (Finland) - See all my reviews

The first songs I heard from Tristania were from Beyond the Veil album. Later I bought Widow's Weeds, and I must admit, that altough both albums have their own distinct style I still prefer Widow's Weeds more. Maybe it's because of the melancholy dark romantic theme or songwriting, maybe it's the peaceful sound.

Usually a metal album is heavily compressed and way too loud and aggressive. Widow's Weeds instead is mixed and mastered more traditionally - you can in fact hear all the different instruments, and the cd won't blow my speakers up when I put the cd into my player. I really appreciate Tristania's effort to produce a honestly good-sounding album. The songs don't even clip, as songs in metal other albums - like Beyond the Veil - do... I really wish I could find other albums like Widow's Weeds.

If someone thinks that growling is a big no, then I suggest to reconsider. It took me many years to learn to tolerate growling, not to speak of shrieking or female growling. It just takes time, like everything else. By ignoring all the good music with growling vocals is like ignoring one of your basic tastes - bitter.

Besides that, I like the intro and outro parts - Preludum and Postludum - of the album, too. They allow me to relax and adjust to the forthcoming bliss of symphonic gothic metal, and afterwards give me time to realize, that it is over again.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Darn near perfect, July 29, 2002

By	Stuart Wilson (Melbourne, Victoria Australia) - See all my reviews

Tristania were the first modern gothic-metal act (that seems to be the right term for them) I encountered, and I was truly blown away by their sound on this, their first full-length release. As soon as track Evenfall kicks in you know what you're in for. The songs are simple yet effective and never outstay their welcome, in fact I can find very few faults with this album, the production especially is first-rate. This was also the first time I heard Pete Johansen's violin work, and he perfectly compliments a couple of the songs. I prefer this album slightly to their next, Beyond The Veil, possibly only because I heard this first, and it was definitely better than their most recent effort, World Of Glass, which I think suffered from Morten Veland's departure. A must for gothic-metal fans.