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After having released such a brilliant album as “The silent enigma”, everyone expected everything except for what we finally had in our hands as the next Anathema album. “Eternity” is so different, the change is so drastic. In the meantime between the previous album and this one, surely Vincent Cavanagh had slept embraced to a “Wish you were here” LP, or “The wall” was the album that sounded on and on and on in their stereos, or maybe the whole band thought they don´t need no education and the teacher had to leave them alone, who knows! If not, the excessive Pink Floyd influence breathed throughout every second of this album can´t be explained at all. “Eternity” has moments where this influence reaches moments clearly scandalous, and the band resembles a tribute band or something similar.
Evolution is good, of course, but it´s supposed to be the “step by step” way, something that takes its time. This case is suspicious because of the sudden shift. “Eternity” is not a bad album, understand me, but it´s not doom metal, it´s an album made by Pink Floyd fans, it´s like a tribute in a certain way. Crept vocals à la Gilmour, ambiences created through synths, spoken parts, whispers, mellow landscapes played by guitars, very “floating” music as a whole. No doomish distorted guitars, nor ambiences of despair, this album is a change from the previous dark feelings to another melancholic dimension; if “The silent enigma” was about sadness and desolation, “Eternity” (and the later Anathema releases) express hope, a sweet state of void and meditative thoughts. Some songs are really good, as “Ascension”, “Angelica” or “The beloved”, but others are rather plain and dull, so the wished intimate feeling in my opinion is not achieved 100%. This is not bad, but it´s so different from the doom years that must be heard before. Did a Pink Floyd overdose cause this album? I think so, therefore in that aspect “Eternity” is not consistent nor honest. The album includes a nice cover version (“Hope”) that is not a Pink Floyd song like many people think, but a Roy Harper song composed with the help of David Gilmour.
| Tracklist |
| 1. Sentient |
| 2. Angelica |
| 3. The Beloved |
| 4. Eternity (Part 1) |
| 5. Eternity (Part 2) |
| 6. Hope |
| 7. Suicide Veil |
| 8. Radiance |
| 9. Far Away |
| 10. Eternity (Part 3) |
| 11. Cries On The Wind |
| 12. Ascension |
: 57.53
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