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Theatre Of Tragedy is a band of true ambiguity. This
Norwegian band have become equally hated and loved over the years due to their
drastic changes of musical direction. Starting out with two close to legendary
gothic doom metal releases in the mid 90's they moved into the more
electro-romantic field with the beautiful "Aégis" in 1998. Moving even
further into the electronic industrial field with their last album "Musique"
they continue down the same path with their new album "Assembly". While the
earlier albums up to "Aégis" were all very warm and passionate their music
is now pretty cold and sterile. What has kept my interest in the band up even
with this new release is the beautifully soothing voice of Liv Kristine and
the fact that they are still able to write very good music with strong
melodies that stick to your mind. The new album is softer than "Musique" was
and the vocals from Raymond sound rather foolish by now but there is still
something special about Theatre Of Tragedy that makes me like this album as
well. It's the worst they have achieved so far but it is still very good
music. This is an album made for the masses but there are still a few tracks
that stick out from the rest like "Automatic Lover", "Universal Race" and
"Let You Down". The rest of the songs are unfortunately a little plain but
this is an album that grows on you which I
like.
| Tracklist |
1. Automatic Lover 2. Universal |
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Race 3. Episode 4. Play 5. Superdrive 6. Let You |
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Down 7. Starlit 8. Envision 9. Flickerlight 10. |
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Liquid Man 11. Motion |
: 42.29
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