Band:	Grave Flowers
Album:	Incarcerated Sorrows
Style:	Doom metal
Website:	http://www.graveflowers.net/
Release date:	March 30, 2005
A review by:	Azhidahak

01. At Night
02. Lackrosy
03. Fear Of Future
04. Sleep Demons Sleep
05. Freeze The Time
06. Save Me Or Destroy Me
07. Erase/Delete
08. Cold Despair
09. Your Memory Lives On
10. My Final Night
11. Leaving The Warzone [Count Raven cover]

We all know Matte Andersson from his famous band Godgory, but perhaps not all of you are familiar with his side project Grave Flowers. In comparison to Godgory, Grave Flowers is more of an attempt towards dark and melancholic music. A better comparison would probably be with their fellow countrymen Lake of Tears as especially that harmonic touch in the music is something that both bands have in common.

The new album pretty much continues the same thread that the band started with their debut full length album "Solace Me". Concentrating most of all on the melodic and emotional side of the music without any radical or memorable heavy guitar riffs, the band also takes a clear step on the other side of the line, namely the "non-metal" side, but still keeping one foot on the metal lands.

The clean vocals of Matte Anderson also give the music a very cheesy feeling and in someway almost ridicule the music. Don't misunderstand me - I do like clean vocals (especially in emotional songs, like newer Katatonia for example, because this kind of vocals can give the music a very dark and depressive feeling). Sadly, this cannot be found in the vocals of Matte Anderson, which actually have more of a whiny feel to them.

I'm a big fan of dark, depressive and melancholic music, but I don't like my music to be whiny, weak and cheesy. Thumbs down from me.