#she has a composing credit on all the songs i think are most interesting soooooooo. off to try out ex libris

[ninthwav]

great news i STILL think the new xandria is their worst post-lisa album (i wuv their work as a truly mid goth band but even as a kill the sun respecter i cannot say much good about the other albums). i almost like theater of dimensions but that is largely because the music is so generically symphonique— if it were any sort of like truly Dark Carnivale Of Horreurs Und Delights thing it would have been a fucking nightmare. xandria used to do this thing where they tried out something a bit folky— call of the wind on neverworld’s end has a bit of pipe work and a kind of folk song-y melody iirc, or at least it’s got a kind of boat song or windswept cliffs vibe lol— and it has never been good but it has at least shown that they are trying. ship of doom and céilí are actively ass but they are again at least trying. really i am just emerging from this symphonic slurry with increased respect for dianne van giersbergen who wrote for the album and clearly was given full head to do different vocal stuff. the long title track is pretty cool but like, herein lies the nightwish clone problem: nightwish has sort of normalized having one very long concept track per album, and i don’t know why this is the model you would follow. like this album is built like a nightwish album and it’s like, okay, dianne’s main project is a prog metal band— you might want to try not doing the nightwish one short instrumental one long concept song thing and let her actually bringn something interesting to the band? anyway doesnt matter they booted her soon after but it is just goofy