Sirenia goes MTV

Somehow, the characters for bombastic gothic metal art in 2007 seem to be bad. Had I still hoped difficult after the total loss of THERION and TRISTANIA on redemption in the form of SIRENIA third born, I sit at the latest now the flags at half mast! The elite of the genre failed in full length!

Where is all the thrilling drama that made up SIRENIA? Where is the wonderfully gloomy atmosphere, all the painfully beautiful romance that previously ran the tape to head Morten Veland? Way lost everything on the track to the mainstream. What becomes immediately apparent is the lack of depth and the far less thrilling mood. By contrast, dominated from start to the, certainly not bad, but unfortunately rather thin and weak expressive voice of Monika Pedersen, pop melodies and riffs harmless. SIRENIA goes WITHIN TEMPTAION could one come to mind, while the harmless nice songs one by chewing so. For this, gentlemen and ladies they lack besides songwriting arts and necessary Hitfaktor, but also the necessary vocal range. (... A Sharon Den Adel is also not just at each intersection!). And right now, at this very moment the serene typing it in my brain turns, also the Promozettelchen must be rejected. SIRENIA 2007 sound far less epic, far less symphonic and damn less metallic than ever. Solely legally I can give the writer of these lines is that the band sounds much more melodic. But this I can do without, if the result sounds pop over extended ranges, harmless and cheesy!

But enough of the scolding, because otherwise the note below this text is understandable for any outsider, although SIRENIA are unfortunately no longer the band that I yet so appreciated, but all is not bad in the house Verland. I realized the brakes are boring opener, with its non-fish-not-meat Gothic Metal initiation, his riddles. Despite nice melodies, subtle choirs and a very catchy chorus, knows this number to convince any more than its similarly mounted cronies branded Absent Without Love or the accompanying chart on the end catchy poppy Hitmelodie My Minds Eye. Lens all super numbers also seem difficult hitverdächtig with their flattering melodies and catchy choruses tender, at the end but unfortunately not every classy Metal offer art with depth that I expect from SIRENIA. Dominated by female vocals, the sound is not bad, but certainly not very charismatic and compelling sound that sometimes quite unpressurized Gothic Pop Rock songs, with subdued choirs, as they are known from old days though, here but unfortunately much too rarely their effectiveness learn. Harmless nice is the bottom line. Some lighter moments as well groovy Sundown or the massive and bombastic good The Other Side are without question all the honors worth but zerschallen unfortunately at Total rivets like One By One and let the very average, slightly touching, much less travel with you aftertaste disappear never. ,

Nine Destinies And A Downfall is very pop, very shallow, certainly not bad, again to quote in total and to our men Chancellor at the end of the day, after THERION and TRISTANIA, but the third disappointment at the 2007 Gothic sky and no more than an average good Gothic Rock album with not abzustreitender MTV VIVA quality.

From a band like SIRENIA but would me definitely expected more.