The reasons this sucks are many. Most obviously: This style is now commonplace, unlike when Speak English or Die! came out and knocked us all on our asses.
Part black metal, part Goth rock/metal, all excitingly scary and sexy. For anyone into darkwave, Goth, or whatever else they’re calling it, ya gotta get this.
Think Mind Over Four, Thought Industry, Jane’s Addiction, or Candiria, metal without limits, adding a double shot of Brutally Truthful post-grind irony.
Dismal Euphony comes from black roots (unlike most Goths’ hair) and they have the male “blackened shriek,” but somehow they just don’t take me the distance.
Each track throws in a new sound and arrangement, but I can’t help thinking that the boys are abandoning ship, passing Sentenced on the way to Paradise Lost.