Mandragora Scream - Fairy Tales From Hell's Caves - guest review
Mandragora Scream - Fairy Tales From Hell's Caves - guest review
Tracklist
01. Fairy02. The Time of Spells
03. Five Tear Drops
04. Brain Storm
05. Crying Clouds
06. Angel Dust
07. Little Zombies
08. Child Of The Moon
09. Starquake
10. Fairy Tale From Hell's Cave (Eva's Stardust)
Guest review by
Ernis February 09, 2008
Thus begins the musical experience that the album is. This work has many qualities and is a fine introduction to the band's discography. The album balances the softness and the aggressiveness of the music very well both in the tracklist order as well as inside the songs themselves. The style pays homage both to earlier gothic groups such as Christian Death and also has some allusions to Italian power metal. The real heart of this band is the voice of Morgan Lacroix. It is dark and passionate, very low, sometimes even resembling a male voice, so that it becomes quite a task to decide whether it's Morgan or the male vocalist Terry Horn singing. Morgan's voice gives the music it's quality. Her vocal technique could also teach a lesson to some people who think that gothic metal is only centered around a light and/or operatic lyrical voice. Out of all the songs on this album, "The Time Of Spells", "Five Tear Drops" and "Little Zombies" would be worth extra mentioning. All of them have both aggression and mild attitude in them. "Starquake" and the title track are fine songs with a dreamy atmosphere and "Child Of The Moon" is a passionate duet of Morgan and Terry. Many songs of the band use voiceovers and film-like sound effects. These can generally either add atmosphere to the music or become annoying. In Mandragora Scream's case they are essential to make the music even more thrilling. The band even dares to take sound clips from different films and add them to the appropriate songs as voiceovers.
If you stay with Morgan's voice til the end of this album you'll finally leave the caves of hell, fly through the skies, between the stars and then you're left in silence to contemplate on thoughts this album might have provoked. In the very end you'll hear the sound of a small waterfall, the farewell chant of the fairy who lead you and the cries of a small child probably forebode the start of something new and better. The journey ends in a garden of paradise.
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 9 |
| Songwriting: | 10 |
| Originality: | 10 |
| Production: | 9 |
Written by Ernis | February 09, 2008
Guest review disclaimer:
This is a guest review, which means it does not necessarily represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
This is a guest review, which means it does not necessarily represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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Awesome band, awesome album, awesome tracks, awesome review but still underrated:mad:
---- Good has power to create, preserve and destroy but only Devil has a power to possess
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Posts: 6817 Written by 🦇Enchantress on 10.09.2018 at 09:05 They are a great gothic band inded, and still around as well. I'm vaguely familiar with their new stuff but it mainly turns up as background music on Spotify. Their old works are very special though...
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