Graceful...yet Forbidding - Callenish Circle

On the surface, Callenish Circle seems to be just another routine melodic death metal band playing the style defined by the likes of In Flames, Dark Tranquillity and At the Gates in the mid-nineties, but 'Graceful... Yet Forbidding' has a lot to offer for fans of the genre who, quite justly, expect to have heard it all. There's nothing groundbreaking here, but the guitar performance of Ronny Tyssen and Jos Evers is fairly exceptional, without going overboard and indulgent. Led by deep, heavy riffs that know when to evolve and when to repeat the same great melodic lines, these songs have a more resonant and even slightly more depressive quality than most ...  Read the complete review