REVIEW: THEATRE OF TRAGEDY - CLOSURE: LIVE + INPERSPECTIVE

 

THEATRE OF TRAGEDY - CLOSURE: LIVE + INPERSPECTIVE (NEMS Enterprises, 2001):

Technical data:

Closure:live recorded live at the Metal Mania festival in Katowice 2000. Mixed at Woodhouse Studios by Siggi Bemm and Matthias Klinkmann.

Inperspective produced by Pete Coleman

Design by Øyvind Dreyer Stuestøl.

Track list: Closure:Live: 1- Intro/And when he falleth, 2- Der Spiegel, 3- Cassandra, 4- Venus, 5- Black as the devil painteth (rmx v2), 6- Siren, 7- Poppæa, 8- Bacchante, 9- A distance there is, 10-Der Tanz der Schatten, 11- Cassandra (CD Rom Video), 12- Der Tanz der Schatten (CD Rom Video). Inperspective: 1- Samantha, 2- Virago, 3- Lorelei (icon of coil remix), 4- The masquerader and Phoenix (phoenix mix), 5- ON Whom the Moon Doth Shine (unhum mix), 6- Der Tanz der Schatten (Club mix).

Well, this is a two CD set done by NEMS Enterprises consisting on two albums: one is a live concert recorded last year at the Metal Mania Festival and the other one is an EP of rarities and remixes by this great norwegian band. The live recording opens with the classic "And when he falleth" showing all that this outfit is capable of: dark moods, heavy riffing and the vocals of Liv Kristine shinning in all its magnitude and contrasting with the male vocals that are more of the growling type (or spoken in the new tracks). In fact I think this songs sound sometimes better live than in studio. The tracks in Inperspective can be divided into two: the rarities: "Cassandra" (really in the vein of Paradise Lost´s "Host") and "Virago" (heavier and slower) recorded in 1998 and the remixes which are almost dance in the case of "Lorelei" and "On Whom the Moon doth Shine" or "The Masquerader and Phoenix" (quite funny) or closer to the original version in "Der Tanz der Schatten". Favorite tracks: "Der Tanz der Schatten (live)", "Black as the Devil Painteth" and "Samantha". Contact: nems@nems.com.ar