Streben - Wild Enchanted Gardens - review
Streben - Wild Enchanted Gardens - review
Tracklist
01. Embrace Of Nostalgia02. Aesthetic Faintness
03. Wild Enchanted Gardens (Where Daylight Dwells)
04. Painfully Seduced (By A Truthful Reverie)
05. Delyrium Lies At The Core Of Wisdom
06. Soul Poetry
A review by
Lucas February 04, 2010
I bet all you male pigs out there (myself included) expect some romantically-themed, sugary-styled half-assed attempt at Black metal, right? Well, you couldn't be further from the truth. Yeah, there are a few 'soft' nature/organic influences, but Miss Hagalaz is certainly no barbiegirl. Her shrieks are so raw they'd make Nattramn (Silencer go insane... oh wait. My bad, Mr. Axewielder. Anyway, they're pretty hoarse and croaked, even slightly over-the-top extreme. But you'll get used to them. The riffs are often a light and airy version of Depressive Black metal, which work quite well with the lightly-dosed synthesizers. Streben knows how not to overdo it. As for the production... Wild Enchanted Gardens is a very raw release in terms of sound and production. It never bothers though, as we're used to quite a bit and it suits the essence of the music pretty well.
Once again, the over-the-top croaks may prove to be a bit of an issue the first few plays, but everything else is quite decent. It's not terrible original or unique, but it's good for a debut. Let's see if Miss Hagalaz can up the ante on a possible follow-up. And if we can finally get a few more women in our sausagefest-genre...
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 7 |
| Songwriting: | 7 |
| Originality: | 6 |
| Production: | 6 |
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Hm, once again the album cover pulled me into one of your reviews, Lucas. Although by your description it sounds pretty decent, I gotta say that has to be possibly the gayest album cover I have ever seen.
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Posts: 537 Written by Doc G. on 04.02.2010 at 11:42 agreed, that cover screams''gaypop´´ not blackmetal^^
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And god i hate her vocals, sounds like a cat being chocked to death by a deranged 5-year old. Laughed my as off when i heard it^^
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Posts: 887 Written by Doc G. on 04.02.2010 at 11:42 What?! theres nothing wrong with the album cover! It actually looks..erm...(lemme get back to you on that)
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The music wasn't bad but the vocals totally ruined it. They sucked hard. I think that Lucas was a bit too kind. I'll give it a 6,0 - 6,5 I really like the artwork though.
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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