THE GATHERING — How to Measure a Planet? (review)

THE GATHERING — How to Measure a Planet? album cover Album · 1998 · Non-Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Warthur
The Gathering's How To Measure a Planet? is a bold and innovative departure for the band, who take on significant amounts of shoegaze influence (filtered through All About Eve) and amp up the electronic content and end up charting a course for the borderlands between the gothic metal of their previous albums and the uncharted expanses of post-rock and post-metal. Though it's a very mellow album, there's still a few more spritely compositions here and there - including the intense rockout of Probably Built In the Fifties. On the whole, this is precisely the departure from expectations The Gathering needed at this time.
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