REVIEW: AUTUMN CLAN - REQUIEM TO THE SUN

 

AUTUMN CLAN - REQUIEM TO THE SUN (W.A.B. Recs., 2002)

Produced by Boban Milunovic

Recorded at Boom Room Studios

Tracks: 1- New Gothicism; 2- Hollow; 3- Requiem To the Sun; 4- Turnin Away; 5- Dream Sequence; 6- Hate Tunes; 7- Garden of Eden; 8- Abuse Me; 9- Desire; 10- Symphony of Sadness; 11- Mortal; 12- Dissonant Trip; 13- The Lack of Inventive Genius; 14- Through

Here we have a heavy gothic band with intense and dark melodies but also with powerful guitar riffs that makes the songs really hard and contrast with the more calm passages where they use clean guitars and arpeffios. The first thing that strikes you here is the sound of the release that has nothing to envy to the one that bands like for example Anathema have. A key element to Autumn Clan´s music is the voice of their singer and guitarist Jens Hermann who sings in a very ethereal manner but reflecting a lot of anguish in his vocals. The vocal lines and the clean arpeggios contrast with the heavy riffs and I liked a lot the tracks where they are put together such as in the end of "Hollow". There is a lot of feeling of sadness here and I like the way in which this guys reflect it through their music, really dark and powerful.

Favorite tracks: "New Gothicism", "Dream Sequence" and "Abuse Me"

Contact: www.wabrecords.org