Vianocturna

NOSGOTH „Lines Of Sorrow"

Rating: 9.0/10

 

From Austria Nosgoth comes, specifically from Graz, city declared as the European cultural center. Austria is a small country but it has always been characterized to possess very good exponents inside the Gothic and symphonic metal in the traditional style, bands so good as Nosgoth, a band that without so much boast as other, lowly offers us a stuff worthy of my applauses.

The album concept is perceived in the music, lyrics and the booklet that it demonstrates a stuff to exalt dark emotions inside epic histories; wizards, kingdoms, forests, death, nostalgia, love and others...
A wonderful detail is without a doubt the voice of the mezosoprano, Solmaaz Adeli (she was born in California - USA), her voice is dramatic, with good tones - range scales, she also mixes perfectly her voice with the rhythm of the melodies.

To begin the CD there is an intro, an adaptation of Mozart with the song " Ave Verum", a sweet and sinister ballad that is the preamble to more dynamics songs based on an almost perfect structure of compact strings, symphonic keyboards, piano and a varied drum of half time, everything under the imposing female vocal.
 
Excellent tracks are "Temptation" (epic poetry and majestic), "Sounds of the Sea" (versatile and melancholic) and "Last Land" (a sad ode for the last earth).
 
Definitively a flattering disk maintaining a personal sound without trying to resemble to Epica, After Forever or Nigthwish; however Nosgoth follows an independent road as conduit for its creativity.  
The new promise of the Austrian symphonic metal? Oh yeahh.

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