Search - Shape of Despair :: Angels of Distress

GOD THIS IS WEIRD

Myself | The Pits | 03/03/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Hmmm...simple, simple guitar work. All of the songs sound inspired and very doomy and gloomy and unhappy though, so who can complain? The best track is probably the second. You can just picture a miserable funeral march tramping slowly down a road in the forest in the rain as that one opens up. Then the grunting appears and the funeral march apparently is sucked into hell. The grunting is strange on this album, not aggressive at all like most metalheads are used to. More mournful. A bit hard to relate to, though...perhaps more clean vocals would have been more effective for this project?? Who knows. Anyhow, what we have here is an excellent record put together by musicians who knew exactly what they wanted to do. Buy it. Imagine the hours of fun you'll have suffering in depression!..."

Depressing the way i like.

Asylum_insane666 | Nut house | 08/12/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Not knowing much about shape of despair i chose to give their album "angels of distress " a listing and well its pretty good. For any one into extreme slow,dark,mournfull, &,depressing music that can make you think about killing yourself, siriously. Get it !!"

Great album but....

dmb91 | abington, mass ,USA | 02/01/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"this band is not female fronted... they do have lovely female backgrounds, though .. a must have for fans of slow crushing doom, with majestic symphonics...all sonfs are great but the first 3 are the best by far"