ANATHEMA — Serenades (review)

ANATHEMA — Serenades album cover Album · 1993 · Death-Doom Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
2.5/5 ·
bonnek
Death metal grunts and slow oppressive doom riffs. There's little in this music betraying the melodic masterpieces that were lurking in the minds of the Cavanagh brothers.

Nevertheless, together with As The Flower Withers from My Dying Bride and Shades Of God from Paradise Lost, this was the very album that brought me to doom death and all great things that resulted out of it back in 1993.

Anathema’s debut pales in comparison to the other pioneers. I had heard the excellent Sweet Tears and Sleepless on my favourite radio show but I was very disappointed with the rest of the album. Given that I could only afford 2 CD purchases in a month back then, I felt particularly cheated, the remainder of the album is very tough to sit through.

Well, some artist start with their best work, others need a few years to mature.
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