Warthur
A Calling to Weakness finds Canaan adeptly weaving their way through numerous neighbouring musical genres. Sometimes they are in solidly gothic rock territory, with a bassline worthy of early Bauhaus, but then a guitar riff will creep in and cross the line from early Cure to something more metallic (particularly when one considers that borderland between doom metal and gothic metal that bands like Type O Negative occupy). Interweaved with this are moments more reminiscent of dark ambient artists, or perhaps moments of sinister darkwave glory worthy of Dead Can Dance. The overall mixture has Canaan displaying a remarkable versatility within this twisted family of subgenres, and creates something that should be appealing to a broad cross-section of fans of dark, gothic music.