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Superheat
Gathering
Superheat
Genres: Rock, Metal
 
Recorded on their How to Measure a Planet? tour, Superheat is the Gathering's first live album. Songs like 'Sand and Mercury,' 'Nighttime Birds,' 'Rescue Me' and 'Probably Built in the Fifties' demonstrate the band's abili...  more »

     
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All Artists: Gathering
Title: Superheat
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: EMI/Century Media
Release Date: 7/17/2006
Album Type: Import
Genres: Rock, Metal
Styles: Progressive, Progressive Metal, Death Metal
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1

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Recorded on their How to Measure a Planet? tour, Superheat is the Gathering's first live album. Songs like 'Sand and Mercury,' 'Nighttime Birds,' 'Rescue Me' and 'Probably Built in the Fifties' demonstrate the band's ability to shift from ethereal bliss to malevolent metal, and these contrasting styles are only emphasized in concert. 11 tracks including one CD-ROM bonus track, 'Eleanor'. Digipak. Century Media. 2000.

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Dreamy tranquility with the power to back it
Allen Salyer | Troy, MI United States | 03/23/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Recorded in Europe on their "How To Measure A Planet" tour, "Superheat" captures all the dreamy tranquility of the Gathering while adding beautiful extended guitar solos. Anneke van Giersbergen's operatic voice, ranging from quiet croon to full-on emotion, seems more powerful live. The opening keyboard drift of "The Big Sleep" sets the mood for the album augmented by Rene Rutten's dense guitar chords. The elegence of Giersbergen's voice in "Rescue Me," the album's best song, is wonderfully contrasted by the raw power of the guitar. Theremin adds a celestial dimension. The pounding bass piano keys in "Probably Built In The Fifties" adds weight an already imposing song. "Superheat" wisely includes "Strange Machines" from an earlier album, a song about the mystique of air travel from the point-of-view of an age long past. With influences as diverse as Daed can Dance, Slowdive, Pink Floyd and Celtic Frost, the Gathering prove that the words "metal" and "etherial" can indeed be used together in the same sentence."
Quite Possibly the Best Live ALbum of all Time!
Alec Head | 03/10/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)

"You never know what to truly expect from a band until you hear them in their natural environment. The Gathering's natural Environment is none other than the stage itself. As far as I'm concerned, The Gathering has never sounded better. There are very few bands out there who can play better live than in the studio(and plus, seeing pictures of Anneke is worth the cash on its own)."
Incredible Live!
Nono | Nantes, France | 02/05/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Yet another great record of the gathering... They definitly create the 'doom atmospheric' sound... Anneke, I Love You..."