Massacre\/Sound Pollution<\/p>\n
Female fronted Goth metal band CORONATUS hails from Germany. No doubt about that as seven out of twelve tracks are in German. After a departing lead vocalist the band opted for two! In place of Lorch now resides both the operatic Ladt Ada Flechtner and the rocking Mareike Makosch. Their fourth album has added qualities never before heard from the band, so to speak. Choirs, Folk elements and orchestral arrangements meet with catchy melodies and other metal ingredients. <\/p>\n
The opener \u201cSaint Slayer\u201d sounds winter trendy but is more of a barely ok opener. It may be easy listening, but it lacks the drive I expect from an opening track. But there is better to come. The odd part first, \u201cIn Signo Crucis\u201d is more like a prayer, quite a forced meeting betwixt a soprano and metal, which leads nowhere. It is somewhat linked to the second dullest, \u201cHatefull Affection\u201d, which is another forced concatenation of soprano and metallic edge. I think you get the drift, the meeting of opposites cannot be too afflicted by contrasts. But when they do the waltz like \u201cDas Zchweite Gesicht\u201d at full throttle their ideas work out to the max. The almost same goes for \u201cFernes land\u201d, \u201cDead Man\u00b4s Tale\u201d the 16th Century inspired \u201cDer Kleriker\u201d and the title track. CORONATUS are at best able to conjure the sweet and the heavy and form them into adjoining pieces of a unity. But when they still experiment with their new line-up and the possibilities it may or may not give\u2026things can go out of hand.<\/p>\n
Track List
\nSaint Slayer
\nFernes Land
\nDead Man\u00b4s Tale
\nSie Stehen am Weg
\nVor der Slacht
\nHateful Affection
\nDer Kleriker
\nDas Zweite Gesicht
\nIn Signo Crucis
\nDer Letzte Freund
\nTraumzeit
\nTerra Incognita<\/p>\n
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