http://www.lotfp.com/content.php?reviewid=54
Mixed feelings about this one. Live the band was absolutely mesmerizing, but the attempted interview afterwards has to be my worst interviewing moment ever. I forgot to bring my notes... and we were supposed to do follow-up by email, but after transcribing what we had done... it was so embarrassing (and I sounded out of it like I was drunk or something) I just decided to bury the whole thing.
The review itself is a bit odd, the album certainly didn't capture what the band can do like their live sound did, but I'm not entirely comfortable that the words match how I feel. Certainly not now, not even sure about then. And that comparison to Candlemass and Solitude Aeturnus should have been better explained instead of being a cheap swipe - I know what I meant and I'd still mean it but there was little thought or effort put into expressing that.
Mixed feelings about this one. Live the band was absolutely mesmerizing, but the attempted interview afterwards has to be my worst interviewing moment ever. I forgot to bring my notes... and we were supposed to do follow-up by email, but after transcribing what we had done... it was so embarrassing (and I sounded out of it like I was drunk or something) I just decided to bury the whole thing.
The review itself is a bit odd, the album certainly didn't capture what the band can do like their live sound did, but I'm not entirely comfortable that the words match how I feel. Certainly not now, not even sure about then. And that comparison to Candlemass and Solitude Aeturnus should have been better explained instead of being a cheap swipe - I know what I meant and I'd still mean it but there was little thought or effort put into expressing that.