Tystnaden - Sham Of Perfection - review
Tystnaden - Sham Of Perfection - review
Tracklist
01. First Embrace02. Münchausen Syndrome
03. Tystnaden
04. Metaphora
05. The Foolish Plan
06. Hamlet
07. The Joke
08. Rewards
09. The Vanishing
10. Pride vs Intellect
A review by
Jeff August 27, 2006
"Sham Of Perfection" is not a bad album. The ten songs are correct and are an alternation of Melodic Death Metal and Gothic/Atmospheric music a la Lacuna Coil. Though, Laura De Luca has a really nice voice and the death vocals of Lorenzo Frascaroli are also extremely good too. The riffs and melodies are catchy in general but a bit easy and if you'll listen to the songs without any problems, you'll also I think, quickly forget the half of the album after the first listening. Nevertheless, the guys of Tystnaden tried to add some instruments like mandolin or violin but since that the rhythms are fast in general it's not unpleasant but not so impressive too? Actually all that is cool, but it's not enough in my opinion?
As you can already understand the problem of the album doesn't come from the performance of the musicians, from the production or even from the quality of the song that we cannot attack. But with it big lacks of originality, a lot of time I just had the feeling that I was listening to a simple uncolored "copy-paste" of X bands. The problem of Tystnaden is not that they're doing bad music, they're not doing bad music, but their first album is just unoriginal.
Come on guys, when I listen to your first album, I see a lot of potential. But I don't see a lot of personality, and something will have to be done here. "Sham Of Perfection" is not bad, the quality of the compositions is not awful really, but it really lacks of original things and I regret that the band didn't take some risks. Though, if you're still looking for bands with female singers, you can try "Sham Of Perfection", it's not a bad release but just a common one?
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 8 |
| Songwriting: | 7 |
| Originality: | 6 |
| Production: | 7 |
Written by Jeff | August 27, 2006
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this album is awesome with very cathy melodies. Every day songs like Hamlet and Rewards is singing in my head. every song has their strongest parts. i dont give a damn that this is not original this is cool and very good album. one of my top 4 of 2006 ( after , Madder mortem, anothe messiah and delain)
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Yeah I am with you on this review Jeff, the music is just not where it needs to be, but... this is a debut so I can forgive. It's better than alot of first CDs, considering that the sound quality is very high and the male and female vocalists have great voices.  I am looking forward to their 2nd disc, because the first track on this CD, "First Embrace," has a very addictive sound to it, but the lack of interesting guitarwork pulls it down.
---- "After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." - Aldous Huxley
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mmm.... great musical potential but it isn't a brillant album, only very good, aparently they search for their sound yet
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i think that this band will give so much that speak in a not far future, the cuestion is that they concrete tuier music and release a good single.
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