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 Divinity - Altaria
Newest Review: ... if it shifts a few more albums. I have no evidence to back up these horrendous insinuations, but that's alright because I'm ... more  ... mainly just joking (or am I?) Needless to say, the vocals aren't my particular cup of tea (neither is tea), but they are performed with impressive skill and some small degree of range; I personally enjoyed the silly high notes of 'Divine.' It's the vocal melodies and choruses repeated ad nauseam that these songs will be most remembered for, and many of them are really good - 'Darkened Highlight' particularly, which is also one of the most impressive songs on the instrumental front.
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Divinity - Altaria: Angels and Ministers of Grace, Rock With Us (627 words)
by Frankingsteins - written on 12/01/08 (Very useful, 32 readings)
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Finland once again proves its peculiar talent for producing accessible rock music mixing elements of metal with romance-obsessed pop that, from any other country, would seem like a ludicrous throwback. Here, it hardly does at all. Lying in an interesting position between the goth-pop-hard-rock-glam-crap of HIM and the more consistently metallic Sonata Arctica, the driving force of Sonata's Jani Liimatainen on guitars and keyboards prevents this from ever being dismissed as a throwaway HIM clone, however hard Taage Laiho tries to convince us otherwise. Laiho's vocals mainly lie in the middle range designed to make young goth girls cry-clean their mascara, and ...
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