THE SINS OF THY BELOVED — Lake of Sorrow (review)

THE SINS OF THY BELOVED — Lake of Sorrow album cover Album · 1998 · Gothic Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Warthur
The debut album by The Sins of Thy Beloved is an archetypal example of the "beauty and the beast" approach to gothic metal: take clean female vocals from Anita Auglend, add death metal grunts from Glenn Nordbø, and lay it over doomy gothic metal and serve with romantic and depressing lyrics. Sins spice up the formula markedly with the inclusion of Pete Johansen in the lineup on violin, his beautiful violin lines essentially being the musical counterpart to Anita's vocals which serve as a neat counterpoint to the doomy riffs the songs are built on. If you like this style of metal at all, you'll probably love this.
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