ESTATIC FEAR — A Sombre Dance (review)

ESTATIC FEAR — A Sombre Dance album cover Album · 1999 · Doom Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
Warthur
A confident blend of doom and gothic metal, enhanced with elements of symphonic metal and even old-timey medieval folk, Estatic Fear's second album is a sonically diverse cornucopia of musical styles. Listeners will have to make their own mind as to whether the musical foundation of the album is gothic doom metal or doomy goth metal, but either way this concept album is even more impressive when you consider that it was composed by just one man - Matthias Kogler was the sole remaining member of Estatic Fear at this point, and he completed this album with the help of a large squad of guest musicians. That said, though it's a technically impressive work, I don't entirely find it to be a particularly deep or rewarding piece on repeated listens.
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