Band:	Aut Mori
Album:	Pervaja Sleza Oseni
Style:	Doom metal, Gothic metal
Release date:	October 29, 2012
A review by:	BitterCOld

01. Pervaja Sleza Oseni
02. Moja Pesnja - Tishina
03. Nebo
04. Prowaj
05. Moj Vechnyj Dozhd'
06. Zhdi
07. Jelegija Bezmjatezhnosti
08. Na Scene Osen'

Apparently the reviewer is a dumbass and his already ploxoi russian has only grown worse over the ensuing decade and change since school. He thought: Aut Mori is Russian for "From the sea." I assume this is meant in a naturalist poetic way as opposed to "from the growing sea of female fronted gothic-tinged acts." It doesn't mean that. It is apparently "Or Die" in Latin. I sucked at that, too.

So at this point with nothing more than "female fronted gothic-tinged act" revealed, you've probably already got a mental picture of what you'll find on Pervaja Sleza Oseni:

1- Draclonian.
2- Alternating "beauty and the beast" vocals, angelic female pitted against demonic male.
3- Doomy riffs drenched in swell production and synths to remove rough edges.

And you'd pretty much be right.

The music is par for the course. It sounds very pleasant, at least outside the scary male "RAWRGHGHG!" vocals. For the most part, it failed to disturb me, exhilarate me, or move me terribly. It is all well done, but just inoffensive.

The first listen through I was running around issuing biotic death to pixelated foes as a form of stress release after a long day at the office? and the one aspect that did manage to rip my attention and initially give me a favorable opinion of the album were the female vocals.

My only prior (intentional) dip into this genre was a prior review for Edenian's [url= http://www.metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=10863]Winter Shades[/url], where the "angelic" vocals were, to be nice, definitely better than my coerced involvement in Guns N' Roses "Paradise City", the Drunken Karaoke gang vocal version.

By comparison, Maria Sorokina (edit) Nati Chitadze does have an impressive voice, one which commanded and focused my attention. For those that can't read between the lines, it means she's good. She's got pipes. At least compared to either Edenian or the Pizza City Seven.

If you like Draconian, or female fronted gothidoom albums, it's worth a shot. If you were one of those who thought I was tough on Edenian, buy this now as it is musically similar only with vastly improved vocals.