So Hideous - Laurestine
Tracklist
01. Yesteryear02. Hereafter
03. Relinquish
04. The Keepsake
05. Falling Cedars
06. The True Pierce
07. A Faint Whisper
Line-up
Brandon Cruz (I) - guitars, keyboards
Etienne Vazquez - guitars
Danny Moncada - drums
Christopher Cruz - bass, vocals
Brandon Cruz (I) - guitars, keyboards
Etienne Vazquez - guitars
Danny Moncada - drums
Christopher Cruz - bass, vocals
Additional info
Recorded and mixed by Dean Baltulonis (Lucero, Sick Of It All) at Wild Arctic Studio.An instrumental-orchestral version of the album was released on the 6th of May 2016 via Bandcamp.
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Opening with the gentle lull of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and slowly building into a magnificently emotive melding of shrieked vocals and tremolo picked guitars, So Hideous do not hide their influences nor desired direction on this album. Among the quite wide array of listed tags on the group's bandcamp page, the two that hold the most merit seem to be "orchestral" and "black metal". Now I prefer the term orchestral to symphonic in this case for a number of reasons, mostly because the band holds very little in the way of similarity to the artists at the forefront of symphonic black metal, but rather pave their own path. Read more ›› |
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Just tried, but in some way name post is what's missing, softer, even its good, but now we have way to many bands what pay sone kind post BM and it makes whole genre boring
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Posts: 1127 Written by [user id=4365] on 13.10.2015 at 19:43 Glad someone else shares my summation of the sound. Still not blown away, but I quite enjoyed this album. Making it one big composition spaces it from its peers as well.
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Posts: 1127 Written by [user id=4365] on 13.10.2015 at 20:45 Indeed. It's quite uplifting.
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Beautiful, I found the mix with the classic-styled melodies pretty nice.
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Absolutely beautiful. If I heard this live with a real orchestra I would probably cry a little.
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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Some nice melodies here and there, but these guys are like the Mahler of metal, just unending crescendos. Very exhausting.
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Yeah there's some good stuff going on here. Not perfect but some really grandiose climaxes going on here - really dig the end of The Keepsake
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Posts: 18619 Written by [user id=157444] on 06.05.2016 at 21:34 Look at that! I knew we could agree on influences! *hugs* Jokes aside, yeah... It's definitely not the calmer post-rock but more the crescendo-filled and wall-of-sound post-rock like Mono does.
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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