Introspection

Introspection Artist: Myriads
Label: Napalm
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 768586909925
EAN: 0768586909925
ASIN: B00006RYDE


Release Date: 2002-11-05

Introspection


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Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars not thrilled, but not disappointed.......2004-02-05

With their name and their theme, I was expecting Myriads to have more of an old-Tristania sound, but instead, they're fairly mellow. The girl is not a good singer. The songs are really long and don't change enough, and while it was cool they did the male choirs and strings, they really could've emphasized them more. The music is good, just not totally original. Anyway, cool stuff if you're into Norwegian gothic metal, a.k.a. the only gothic metal worth listening to.

5 out of 5 stars Further evolved..........2003-02-12

Those familiar with the demo and re-release of Myriads' _Spheres Without Time_ will know that Myriads' music consists of, as the band claims, "Metal with Classical Elements." _Introspection_ seeks to further the stylings established with Myriads' previous releases, and succeeds entirely. Myriad's signature style combines, as many groups do, traditional metal with keyboards and both clean and death/black metal vocals. However, the group largely eschews the predominantly organ-chord sound some groups use for more of an authentic-piano sound. The group's charm derives from this oscillation between light/heavy music, light/heavy vocals, complex/catchy tunes.

In terms both both song and album structure, this difference is more defined and smoothly executed than most any other group I have heard -- Tristania and Dismal Euphony are the groups that come closest, I think, but Myriads surpasses both, IMO. "Inside" and "Falling Into the Equinox," for example, are songs which consist entirely of acoustic instruments and clean vocals; the former song implements a chorus and string group that fits into their music beautifully, while the latter song truly showcases the success of Myriads' new emphasis on a variety of acoustic guitars in order to add even more variety to their music. "The Sanctum of My Soul" displays a virtuosic ability to shift between light and heavy stylings. Songs such as "Miserere Mei" and "Portal to the Mind" are epic-length songs that reach moments of crushing heaviness. The lyrics, while lacking sometimes in subtlety, form, over the course of the album, a complex interplay between several points of view, represented by 4 different vocals. If I have any criticism of the album, though, it is that Mona (fem. vocals) does not take advantage of the eviler-sounding voice used in the earlier recordings, for instance "Day of Wrath," which was something entirely different for this type of music. Tsk.

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