2014-2-24 15:40
麻油女郎
Dama - Eirwen (2011) [Gothic Metal/Symphonic Metal]
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Released: Jun 20, 2011
Label: Dama
Country: Italy
Quality: MP3, VBR Avg. 206 Kbps
[b]Review[/b]
Dama is a melodic gothic metal band from Italy and this is their debut studio CD. Their songs are without exception warm, lush, atmospheric and crunchy, with an unusually pleasant thick heaviness in their bass tone; the keys are pervasive and usually acoustic. The song structures are simple and straightforward, each combining several melodies with nearly constant singing with an upbeat, exhilarating chorus. It requires an extremely high level of song-writing to create truly engaging songs with such a formula and it continues to amaze me how well Dama was able to accomplish this on ‘Eirwen.’ The melodies are generally introspective and a little melancholy, yet soothing at the same time, and not a few of them are exquisitely beautiful and emotive and haunt you for days after listening to the them. The choruses, in contrast, are poppy, upbeat, hopeful and triumphant.
Their female vocalist, Barbara Schera Vanoli, who is also their primary song-writer and lyricist, is superb. She has an absolutely beautiful soprano style, full of strength, confidence and nuance; indeed, her delivery perhaps more than anything else accounts for the broad tapestry of emotions in the songs, as they effortlessly drift back and forth from poignant to jubilant. She sings about half the songs in her native Italian and the other half in fluent English, with four of the songs sung in both languages (so there are actually 11 distinct songs, one of which is a cover of Madonna’s “Live to Tell”).
This is one of the most engaging melodic metal CDs I’ve heard in a while, and is perhaps most comparable to ShadowPlay, Liquid Sky and Narwhal Tusk, though the song structures on ‘Eirwen’ are generally more simple than the songs of these bands. Even so, it is one of those CDs that subtly but inevitably captivates the listener at a deep emotional level, invariably leaving me, at least, feeling pleasantly pensive after every listen.
Originally reviewed at [url]http://www.metalcdratings.com/[/url]
[b]Tracklist[/b]
Eliot
Breaking Dawn
Your Winter
Live to Tell
Rainy Roads
Lost
Scarlet Thoughts In Room
Alba
Regina d'Inverno
Scatola di Vetro
Aprile
Seta
Lei
Ombre
Oltra Eclisse
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