Saturtijn wrote:
But what has been the reason that bands like Theatre of Tragedy and Tristania and so on have broken through...?
Maybe their style was something new way back then and appealed to many people, and maybe they got the right kind and amount of promotion needed to become bigger. However, the so-called "Beauty and the Beast"-bands never appealed to me, because I can't stand the growling.
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Wooh, that sounds good! I will really listen some more T3&M stuff...!
You'll find songs from all their albums on youtube and should check them first, if you have only heard "Tears Laid In Earth" so far. The Third And The Mortal have changed their style quite drastically. And their second vocalist Ann-Mari Edvardsen (featured on "Nightswan", "Painting On Glass" and "In This Room") sounded also very different from Kari Rueslåtten. Their last two albums "Memoirs" and "Project Bluebook" featured again a new female vocalist and also some clean male vocals (OK, to be precise, I think there were five different vocalists featured on "Memoirs").
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I don't know exactly, I thought I read on the Kari Rueslatten Wikipedia page that she has sung in some hardstyle projects. I don't remember their names exactly anymore, however. And I'll give her solo projects a listen too!
I think you'll find songs from all her albums on youtube.
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What's about "Simple Mind"?
It's a song from "Memoirs" I was listening to when I wrote my post.
Despair wrote:
I like the band very much, but I only have "Tears Laid In Earth", "Painting On Glass" and the "Nightswan"-EP. Which style do they pursue on their later albums?
I don't really know how to classify the style on "In This Room", but in my opinion it's the least accessible of their albums - it's been a while since the last time I listened to it. "Memoirs" has been referred to as "musique noir" as well as an album with trip-hop influences. Since I'm not familiar with either of these terms, I can only say that I really enjoy this album very much nowadays, though it took me a while, maybe because compared to its predecessors it sounds like you're listening to a different band. The two new studio songs on "Project Bluebook" are in the vein of the stuff on "Memoirs". The four live songs from 2002 on "Project Bluebook" sound very different from the original songs and two of them have even slightly different titles, namely "Simple Mind" turned to "Simple Man" and "Autopoéma" (originally from "Tears Laid In Earth") turned to "Autophomea/Improv". I could imagine that some people who loved "Autopoéma" on "Tears Laid In Earth" might totally dislike the live version on "Project Bluebook". I like both versions, but that is - as always - a matter of personal taste.
By the way, if you like "Tears Laid In Earth", you will also like the debut EP "Sorrow". The songs of "Sorrow" are also featured on the "EP's And Rarities"-album together with the songs from the "Nightswan"-EP, a remix of "Horizon" and a previously unrealeased song. People who like "Sorrow" and "Tears Laid In Earth" might also like Ava Inferi and Skumring's "De Glemte Tider".