Lacrimas Profundere - Ave End
Napalm Records file under gothic metal
 Vera: We start with some thoughts that might sound familiar to you. Favourite bands who have a place in your heart for years, release a new album. You always have a little fear of them being not able to match their previous beloved works. Imagine they suddenly saw the Light and suddenly go off at a tangent for the sake of the alternative art or maybe the inspiration has flown away and left just a shade of what they once were. But let us praise Lacrimas Profundere, for ‘Ave End’ is fresh, inspired, familiar and yet a bit different. A natural evolution of a band that took the time and waited for the right moment to strike again.
It is the fourth album for Napalm Records, including eleven sensitive tracks one could call ‘rock ‘n’ sad music’. Sometimes it even reminds me of Chris Isaak, but I shouldn’t mention this. Maybe they won’t like that, for then we forget the heavy rock guitars and the band deserves better comparisons. If ‘Memorandum’ (1999) still sounded very Anathema alike, by now the band has become more original.
Singer Christopher has a deep, warm voice, filled with melancholy. These are superb melodies in ‘One Hope’s Evening’ and ‘To Bleed Or Not To Be’, instant haunting your memory. But they do rock as the best ones too. Just listen to the freaky guitars in ‘Amber Girl’ or the lascivious rocking ‘Sarah Lou’. But I was most impressed by the deep despair in ‘Testified’ and ‘Come, solitude’. This is shuddering intense! Also entrancing are the distorted electro vocals in ‘Astronautumn’ (fine quibble), sometimes quiet savage, almost grunts. We have got a good contrast between the drawling vocals and the heavy rock base in ‘Evade’. And don’t forget the imposing incantation of ‘Black’.
You see, fear is no good adviser and this German band delivered with ‘Ave End’ a marvellous album you can buy without hesitation.
Rating 88/100 (details)
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