Autumnal
In my shell (Demo) 2000 No Label
The not very professional looking CD-R I received from this young doom band, fortunately contained a demo made by serious musicians, and is blessed with a good production. Fortunately, because it's the music that counts here, anyway. These guys display their talent on this demo with six lengthy tracks, playing solid atmospheric doom death in the tradition of My Dying Bride and Anathema. However, the word 'tradition' is perhaps an understatement. Some parts of the songs remind strongly of MDB's 'Turn loose the swans'. While I'd swear that some other parts came from Anathema's 'Eternity', if I didn't know it was actually this Autumnal. Especially the vocalist has an incredible talent at sounding exactly like Aaron Stainthorpe when he grunts and also when he's doing the low clean vocals (which unfortunately are a bit out of key at times) and the spoken parts. However, some times, when he screams, he sounds exactly like Vincent Cavanaugh ('Eternity' era). How does he do this? I don't know, I only know that this demo sounds like the two former arch enemies of Peaceville, joined their efforts making a new demo which reconciliates old My Dying Bride and the new Anathema we got to know since 'Eternity'. The conclusion of this review could be that those guys have enough potential to create something brilliant in the future. However, to do this, they should use their creativity and talent to create something more unique, something which distinguishes them in the overcrowded atmospheric doom death scene.	1. Your voice & my remembrance 2. Both hands of truth 3. Age of wrath 4. Absence 5. Me, the fault 6. Then and Now Approx. 47 minutes
Reviewed by: Kostas Panagiotou
Promo 2000-2005 (Promo CDr) 2006 Xtreem Music
This collection contains tracks from three previous releases. Track one is a new song from the release 'Grey Universe'(2005), track two and five is from 'The Age Of The Sin' (2003) and tracks three and four are from 'In My Shell' (2000). Since 'In My Shell' has already been reviewed, let's concentrate on the three newest songs. Instead of just repeating what has already been said, I'll try to point out the few differences. If 'As Soon As You Die' is representative for the whole 'Grey Universe' album, they seem to have added some progressiveness to their sound. It's just a very soft touch of Katatonia and perhaps Opeth. It seems that they've slowly but steadily begun to find their own sound. The two tracks from 'The Age Of The Sin' sound pretty much like what they presented on their demo. There isn't really much more to say about it. Anyway, I will check out their latest release for sure!	1. As Soon As You Die (from ''Grey Universe'', 2005) 2. Zoe (from ''The Age of the Sin'', 2003) 3. Your Voice And My Remembrance (from ''In my Shell'', 2000) 4. Then And Now (from ''In my Shell'', 2000) 5. Your Inner Says (from ''The Age of the Sin'', 2003) Approx. 47 minutes
Reviewed by: Kristian Larsson