http://www.misera.net/gathering/images/gatheringblack.jpg
http://www.misera.net/gathering/
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:32 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/9931/seward.php
― chuck, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:42 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/9909/freedberg.php
Me, I've yet to hear an album by them that I didn't like. (I write about them some in the '90s edition of Stairway to Hell, by the way, and reviewed an album in the Voice that ran too early to be linked to on line.) The *Planet* one Scott reviews is where to start, though.
― chuck, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:51 (twenty years ago) link
"Almost A Dance" is usually shoved under the carpet (by both the band & fans), and indeed it's painfully bad, mostly because of the terribly nasal punkrock vocals.
"Mandylion" and "Nighttime Birds" were their breakthrough albums: accessible "fairytale" rock/metal with the exhuberant and hugely charismatic vocals of new singer Anneke van Giersbergen.
"How To Measure A Planet" is a lush, warm but meandering jazzy/proggy affair without any metal left.
"If_Then_Else" and "Souvenirs" trim it a bit into a more song-based thing, which should appeal a lot to fans of 4AD/Projekt. Imagine a cross between the aforemented labels, Portishead, Interpol and the Cranberries - which I'd never thought would work. It's not metal at all, although they'll probably will keep that stigma forever.
― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:53 (twenty years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:55 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:57 (twenty years ago) link
only Total Rock and metal mags give them any press/ coverage.
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:58 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 23:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 23:18 (twenty years ago) link
Here's what I wrote a couple weeks ago about what happened to (some of?) Anahtema after Anathema. (The SECOND Antimatter lick below):
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0343/eddy.php
― chuck, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 23:24 (twenty years ago) link
Trip-HopMy Dying Bride - 34.788%... Complete
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 23:28 (twenty years ago) link
Sonic Assaulthttp://www.sonicassault.co.uk/
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 23:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 23:34 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 23:41 (twenty years ago) link
― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:30 (twenty years ago) link
James
― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 30 October 2003 01:09 (twenty years ago) link
Unless these are the same metal heads who love Projekt label stuff.
― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Thursday, 30 October 2003 02:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Thursday, 30 October 2003 02:49 (twenty years ago) link
Can't help you then.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 30 October 2003 11:02 (twenty years ago) link
― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 30 October 2003 15:37 (twenty years ago) link
I haven't heard their last couple, but I'd like to.
Anathema...Alternative 4 was their album for me, years ago. I went back and listened to it recently and realized that the lyrics are very silly, but that 'Empty' is still their pop hit that should-have-been.
My Dying Bride...I used to love Like Gods of the Sun, and thought that 34.788% was interesting but mediocre when it came out. After a while though it turned into my favorite album of theirs. It's so DIRTY, it's just got a vibe that really works for them and takes away some of the gawthness. Isn't the drummer from Alternative 4 on that record?
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 30 October 2003 15:48 (twenty years ago) link
― ara, Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 31 October 2003 01:44 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward, Friday, 31 October 2003 02:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 31 October 2003 02:06 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward, Friday, 31 October 2003 02:09 (twenty years ago) link
(yeah I know, planetis a double album butI only had twelve)
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 31 October 2003 02:15 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward, Friday, 31 October 2003 02:18 (twenty years ago) link
but then I got newying yang twins in the mail andnow I can't decide
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 31 October 2003 02:26 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward, Friday, 31 October 2003 02:42 (twenty years ago) link
but the gatheringhas an outside shot, just likehilary duff's album
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 31 October 2003 02:48 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward, Friday, 31 October 2003 03:30 (twenty years ago) link
it might win for itscover alone, and title:metamorphosis!
and yeah el gran roolz,#1 for me for sure.volume 2 next month!
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 31 October 2003 03:56 (twenty years ago) link
― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Friday, 31 October 2003 06:57 (twenty years ago) link
I'm good...I was basically playing jazz and such for the last however many years but I accidentally ended up playing drums in a metal band again!
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 31 October 2003 14:36 (twenty years ago) link
Also: They release a "semi-acoustic" live album called "Sleepy Buildings" in early 2004.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 19 November 2003 11:49 (twenty years ago) link
'sleepy buildings' is great i was listening to it passively the other week and had a sort of epiphany with it. was thinking about nostalgic things
― Charlie Howard, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 14:31 (fifteen years ago) link
comments on the new one?
― akm, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 04:16 (fourteen years ago) link
It got some very good reviews on some metal-sites.
― Marty Innerlogic, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 10:21 (fourteen years ago) link
i like it but I'm hardly a huge fan
― akm, Thursday, 15 October 2009 03:56 (fourteen years ago) link
It's only okay. I actually like the poppier moments more than the Gathering-by-numbers tracks.
Anneke's new album is total middle-of-the-road stuff, but I like it a lot more than the Gathering's new one, she and her band have a nice thing going.
― A. Begrand, Thursday, 15 October 2009 05:20 (fourteen years ago) link
So the Anneke-less one was just OK then? I didn't think the last one with Anneke was too hot tbh. I am relistening to Planet and Souvenirs, both awesome.
― Simon H., Monday, 20 December 2010 10:37 (thirteen years ago) link
every once in a while I revisit the Planet/if_then_else/Souvenirs stretch and recall when these weirdos were one of the best rock bands on the, er planet. and then I also wonder aloud whether brad has heard these
― Simon H., Thursday, 7 November 2019 04:58 (four years ago) link