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The best album I own.

A. Hakkarainen | Finland | 03/30/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The first songs I heard from Tristania were from Beyond the Veil album. Later I bought Widow's Weeds, and I must admit, that altough both albums have their own distinct style I still prefer Widow's Weeds more. Maybe it's because of the melancholy dark romantic theme or songwriting, maybe it's the peaceful sound.



Usually a metal album is heavily compressed and way too loud and aggressive. Widow's Weeds instead is mixed and mastered more traditionally - you can in fact hear all the different instruments, and the cd won't blow my speakers up when I put the cd into my player. I really appreciate Tristania's effort to produce a honestly good-sounding album. The songs don't even clip, as songs in metal other albums - like Beyond the Veil - do... I really wish I could find other albums like Widow's Weeds.



If someone thinks that growling is a big no, then I suggest to reconsider. It took me many years to learn to tolerate growling, not to speak of shrieking or female growling. It just takes time, like everything else. By ignoring all the good music with growling vocals is like ignoring one of your basic tastes - bitter.



Besides that, I like the intro and outro parts - Preludum and Postludum - of the album, too. They allow me to relax and adjust to the forthcoming bliss of symphonic gothic metal, and afterwards give me time to realize, that it is over again."

The Best of It's Scene

Vesperal Vanguard | 04/25/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Disreguard L Salisbury's review. It isn't helpfull in the least because the review is completely false. First off, the female vocalist sounds nothing like Kate Bush and second, Tristania has never been a death metal band. Leave that to the likes of Nile, Cryptopsy, Soilent Green and Necrophagist.



Salisbury did, however, get it right when the term "Masterpiece" was used. This is one of the best albums of the genre. Every single song is just as good as the last. Each one delivers a beautiful display of atmosphere and emotion. Sure the guitar work is slightly on the simplistic side but the brooding atmosphere and beauty created here greatly surpasses anything that shear shredding could produce.



When you think of gothic metal you probably think of The Birthday Massacre, Beseech, Sentenced, Sethian, Type O Negative and To/Die/For eh? Well, Tristania has taken the genre to a whole new level with the likes of Katatonia.



Case in point, this is a brilliant display of gothic/doom metal and if you want something more, Try "Beyond the Veil" and Katatonia's earlier works."

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Dark Music Fan | Aust | 09/26/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This is a group of great talent and musical ability, the only negative being in harsh male vocal overkill, less of that would make it perfect: Recomended group for the dark music lover."