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The obvious starting point for this young American
band is Lacuna Coil, due to their male/female vocal combo,
courtesy of the flame haired lovely, Cassi Mego, and her
cohort, Vincent Nunez, allied to their gothic flavoured
rock/metal. But that tells only half the story, you have
to add other heads to this particular monster; an extra
injection of va-va-voom: the superb keyboards of David Newell;
Vincent’s willingness to rock, croon, rap, laugh, roar and
scream; an occasion bursts of Tool; and some very unexpected
musical moments. There are prime gothic rockers like ‘Beside
Myself’ and ‘Quintessence’, heavier proggier workouts such
as ‘Secret’ and ‘Transfixation’, but there are also the
two bar room boogies gone metal, ‘Glass Delirium and ‘An
Enigma’, the latter living up to its name by turning into
a My Chemical Romance style waltz. The two outstanding songs
are the equally immense ‘The Color Nine’ and the final track,
‘The Clearing’. A special mention must also go to the brief
orchestral waltz ‘Ellipsis’, which sounds like it came from
a Hammer Horror film! When a band has a full time keyboarder
it opens up so many possibilities, both sonically and musically,
and this, plus their multifarious influences from other
genres, sets them apart from Lacuna Coil and the rest of
the pack. This multi headed beast of a record can be unleashed
from EBay if you are in the US of A, and Amazon/iTunes download
venues for the rest of us, see their Myspace for more info,
http://www.myspace.com/glassdeliriummusic
. Gothic/prog rock/metal fans will love putting
this monster under their beds. 9 out of 10
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