Foregone - Mirror of Deception

Description: Genre: Hard Rock & Metal / Artist: Mirror of Deception / Import / Audio CD

Newest Review: ... soaring clean vocals that remind of US peers 'While Heaven Wept'. The songs are both well-constructed and varied, with a ... more

... warm, organic feel, and numerous folky touches throughout. There are bridges of despondent doom riffs that remind of My Dying Bride and Mourning Beloveth, and elsewhere there are downhearted Paradise-Lost style gothic rock riffs, and even choruses that hint at 'Tonights Decision'-era Katatonia, but these are all built around a backbone of old-school doom that remains melancholy but uplifting rather than downright miserable, full of rays of hope amidst the gloom. Whilst generally slow-to-mid-paced the album lapse...more

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Foregone - Mirror of Deception: All Aboard the Ship of Fools (405 words)
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"Then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, 1851 Released in 2001, 'Foregone' is the second full-length by little known German doom band 'Mirror of Deception' who play in a the melancholy and rather bombastic 'true-doom' style of Candlemass and Reverend Bizarre. Foregone is by and large a slow and lethargic album, its epic songs consisting of achingly sad, ancient-sounding doom riffs, melodic guitar leads and uncomplicated but accomplished mid-paced drums, accompanied by understated and frequently soaring clean vocals that remind of US peers ... Read the complete review