Band:	Sethian
Album:	Into The Silence
Style:	Hard rock, Suomi metal
Release date:	April 28, 2003
A review by:	Undercraft

01. Nothing Is True
02. Dream Domain
03. Love Under Will
04. Epitaph
05. Too Far Gone
06. Purity In Sorrow
07. Dead Reckoning
08. Magdalene
09. Heavens May Fall
10. Blood Calling
11. Call Of The Wild
12. Into The Silence

Sethian was formed in 1998, when 2 friends, Jussi Koponen and Wilska [the growler of Fintroll] started discussing a band, based on good solid music and songs rather than image. Later, they went searching for the rest of the band members, and together they recorded their first demo entitled The Dream Domain, which captured the attention of the Finish label Spinefarm Records.

After signing to Spinefarm, the drummer position was available, and it was offered to Jukka Nevalainen, drummer of Nightwish, and as a session musicians Tuomas Holopainen from Nightwish too, was in charge of the keyboards. With this line-up they went to SundiCoop Studios to record their debut album Into The Silence, later mixed at Finnvox.

The result is a very strange piece of work, the band defines themselves [or at least the record label] as Gothic Metal, but doesn't sound like Gothic Metal, it sound more like Hard Rock with traditional Metal elements. If you're expecting this to sound like Charon, Entwine or To/Die/For, it won't. The guitars, the choruses, are pure Hard Rock.

Musically, the band employs a wide variety of melodies, and Wilska vocals are quite good, all the songs are based in melodic harmonies, and catchy choruses with a lot of 80's influences, but sadly all those elements fail to impress me, some songs are quite boring and pointless, while others like 'Epitaph', 'Purity of Sorrow' and 'Heavens May Fall' are really interesting and catchy [I can't stop singing the chorus of 'Epitaph'].

This is not a bad album, these guys can play, but there's something missing, I can't put my finger on it, but this album really fails to impress me, maybe if they decide which way to go... or Hard Rock or Gothic, because combining the two styles doesn't seems to work.

If you're waiting to hear Charon or Entwine here, You'll be disappointed, but for all Hard Rock fans, this is for you!