Lost Inside - Mourning Wept Beside Me - review
Lost Inside - Mourning Wept Beside Me - review
Tracklist
01. Bewildered02. A Ghost Among People
03. Four Walls And A Restless Shadow
04. Like A Wilted Flower
05. Feed On Tears
A review by
X-Ray Rod July 20, 2011
You should know what to expect by now. This American duo brings us a mild ambient black metal album. You won't listen to any fast and cacophonic sort of music and there is no mournful vibe either. It's all about relaxing in this case, slowly floating and being in a state between awake and asleep. I think I have to thank the production for that. It was something I enjoyed quite a bit with this album. The sound of the guitars isn't harsh or noisy at all. They just flow in a drone-like manner creating a gentle atmosphere. Some shy lead guitars make their appearance every once in a while giving the songs an extra touch (for example in "Feed On Tears").
Sometimes the riffs get oddly uplifting like in "A Ghost Among People" which caught me off guard with its peacefulness. These moments together with hypnotic atmospheres created by the acoustic guitars (especially in "Bewildered") were the most interesting moments of the album.
You will probably ask: "The rating seems a bit low. What happened?"
Well, guys: If you read closely you will notice I only wrote about moments, not songs per se. The good moments don't last long, things get quickly repetitive and tedious which is something you don't want for your ambient album. The band just didn't use their ideas too well.
Also, through these last few years, Kold (the founder of Lost Inside, playing all instruments) has changed vocalists from time to time. All I can say is that he needs to get a new one again. They are not bad but just too average, quite uninspired and kind of kill the mood most of the time. It's a shame because they really don't help the music that already has some flaws.
My humble advice to Kold: get a new vocalist, polish the songwriting and try again. You have some ideas that work well and you might do something better in the future.
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 7 |
| Songwriting: | 6 |
| Originality: | 6 |
| Production: | 8 |
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The album title is quite awful. It reads like a black/doom metal madlib and it doesn't make any sense.
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Posts: 18615 Written by [user id=111774] on 20.07.2011 at 07:39 Heheh, I didn't really noticed how the title was weird. I would have made a joke about it but I've seen worse. The album is pretty decent. The first two tracks are the best.Not mindblowing or crappy, just decent/good. If it weren't for the average vocals i would have give it a big of a higher rating (around 7,5-7,7)
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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Unfortunately it's an entirely forgetful album. It'd take more than better vocals to lift this one up.
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Posts: 18615 Written by Marcus on 21.07.2011 at 10:13 Heheheh, You're right man. I changed the review a bit both in text and numbers. I try to put a lot of effort in reviews, this one in particular was different. I guess there's this problem with average albums that aren't bad perse: that if you listen to them for a looong looooong time you get used to it, that's not the same as the album growing on you. You're just used to the way of how it sounds that in my case I didn't see that line of difference between liking and just getting used to. Reviews are actually quite tricky! 
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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Posts: 2466 Written by X-Ray Rod on 21.07.2011 at 21:18 Not really. All you need to do is use big words to appear smart, read some reviews from MA, plagiarize from a few and mish-mash them together using big words so as not to show you've never actually listened to the album. Works like crazy, lemme tell ya.
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Posts: 647 Written by X-Ray Rod on 21.07.2011 at 21:18 Ahh yeah I know what you're talking about. I was just disappointed when I first read the review then listened to the album. Figured I'd end up enjoying it a bit more. But updated review is much more in line with how I feel about the album.
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Posts: 18615 Written by Marcus on 21.07.2011 at 21:38 Yeah, sometimes it is after you get it published that you think "this is fucking meh, have to fix it". Because it didn't show at all what I've felt either. I didn't seem to understand that the things I praised where just moments in between songs XD.
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Posts: 18615 Written by [user id=136611] on 04.12.2015 at 07:46 I reviewed this? Woah. Totally forgot about this one. It was my second official review (which means without the "guest" tag)... Can't say I really like it. Wonder what I think of the album now. It was also the very first time I got a cd for free just for review-purposes. 
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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Account deleted Written by X-Ray Rod on 04.12.2015 at 10:20 free cd!!! I bet you find this album terrible now.
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