THINE — A Town Like This (review)

THINE — A Town Like This album cover Album · 1998 · Progressive Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
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Genre: progressive/avant-garde goth metal

This stuff is pretty weird. It is also pretty cool. It is progressive and avant-garde, but not in the usual technical manner of excessive instrument-wankery. Thine draw more on the psychedelia and genre transgression of 70s progressive rock and blend it in with a dark gothic athmosphere (not gothic in the sense of Paradise Lost and Type O Negative type of gothic metal, but more in the spirit of post punk goth rock). "A Town Like This" certainly is an arty and more intellectually appealling effort.

Although it draw a lot on genres outside of metal, I think Thine (at least on this album) are still a metal band, since they do draw extensively on sludge metal and new metal (maybe they're a post metal band - I don't know).

"A Town Like This" is perhaps a challenging listen, but I think that fans of psychedelic progressive metal and dark rock might like it. In any case, you will have to give it a couple of spins, I think, to get used to it.
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