Anathema alternative 4 rar
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While most of the lyrical themes are crafted primarily by Duncan Patterson, Danny and Vincent Cavanagh are writing more lyrics to enhance the album's already depressing tone. "I'll Dance With Angels to Celebrate the Holocaust" remains as one of (if not THE) most depressing line I've ever heard (seriously, who thinks like that?) and that is benefited further with Vincent's already depressing vampiric nasal vocals on that part of the title track. The theme of the lyrics is trust, but it reaches to depressing and even suicidal thoughts like in "Empty" and the title track. The lyrics are also bleak in Alternative 4. By the way, the title track has one of the best examples of vocal crescendo in a metal album. He even utilizes a wide range on the title track, where he has that defeated nasal sound, but also Middle Eastern-sounding key changes and long sustain by the end of the song. However, like the previous record, his tone is low energy, which is needed in an album that's meant to be bleak. The grit and aggression is completely void, and continues to improve with his clean singing.
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His performance went from a shy-induced dirty singer that struggled with reaching high notes in Eternity to a singer that finally understands his true range and how to utilize it better. Noticeably it has fewer highlights from Duncan Patterson's performance, but is still able to bring tension and anticipation on the title track and "Re-Connect".Īmong the best things about Alternative 4 is the improved performance of Vincent Cavanagh's vocals. From the very beginning of the album, build ups play an important role in dynamic control, because it establishes the heaviness and atmosphere from the album's guitar and vocals.
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At the same time, it leaves out the soundscapes featured in Eternity for a simpler piano approach. The piano/keys and the key signatures used were the driving force in the album's depression, which ranges from classical simplicity or gothic organs like in "Feel", to atmospheric sustain that makes the album bleak.
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It's simpler in structure but did nothing to hinder the performance of the music, a lot of which is heart-wrenching and depressing. It's still incredibly heavy and gothic-sounding in its tone, thanks to the dynamic changes of the guitars where it helps to bring added depression and tension, and it's not short of its chorus sound. It's definitely slower than previous albums and shows the band drifting further into some rock territory. However, this album is mellower when it comes to the music and the rhythm section. Like Eternity, this album holds a special place in my heart and it's awfully close to being my all-time favorite Anathema record and one of my top 5 gothic metal records.Īlternative 4 continues where Eternity left off, musically depressing, gothic, and atmospheric. I never heard anything that depressing at the time and it helped me get into depressing music in the first place. This was the album that first got me into Anathema, primarily "Lost Control", which was featured on the map of the metal website under gothic metal and instigated the beginning of a love for a band's music. Despite these changes, this would be one of the greatest releases they ever put out. This is the final album with Duncan Patterson, and at the time the band was mentally strained. Instead, drumming duties went to Shaun Steels, who would go on to drum for My Dying Bride between 1999 to 2006. It was the only album where drummer John Douglas doesn't appear in the band. Regardless, Patterson would take part in another phenomenal album with one of my favorite bands.Īlternative 4 marked some major changes during and after its recording. I honestly don't expect even Patterson would be comfortable with that era being metal, let alone gothic or doom metal. He has dismissed Eternity and Alternative 4 as being part of metal despite mentioning influences of Dead Can Dance and Paradise Lost. I keep track of former Anathema bassist Duncan Patterson's Facebook page and have learned a few things from his own perspective.