CREMATORY

The tenth full-length studio album by the legendary German Gothic/Industrial Metal band.
Crematory are most successful German Gothic Metal band ever. After more than 15 years of band history and a creative break of 3 years they’ve returned with their comeback-album "Revolution" in 2004, marching back to the Olympus of Gothic Metal music cementing their leading-role in the genre. "Klagebilder" has been the right album that featured the expected amount of smashers with ear-drilling refrains and club-hits to dance to, demonstrating that the hit-factory Crematory was without doubt powered by high voltage.
What should follow this musical "fortress"? Crematory, in their creative and musical zenith? No way! "Gothic Metal" and "back to the roots" were the catchwords targeting the new album production with the title "Pray" – and once more they were fulfilled to the max!
On the musical scale Crematory are burning down indescribable fireworks of "earwig-hits", with fat guitar-riffing being even more aggressive and intense compared to the past. Lyrically – on the vocal side – darkness dominates "Pray" again. Going back to English lyrics, the vocal-splitting between Felix and Matthias, the clash of extremes in deepness and clean-lines, has been maintained.
The keyboard-sounds got a massive face-lifting as well. Crematory didn’t only dig out the earthy sounds of the good old days, but even upgraded them with orchestral arrangements. A way far beyond Techno-samples and digital sound – back to the darkness of the past, with huge string arrangements and choirs that guarantee never-ending gooseflesh attacks.
The production again was taken care of Crematory themselves in the Kohlekeller Studios. A dynamic and massive sound of international standard is guaranteed!
A remarkable top notch album of Crematory!!
Massacre Records/Blistering Records, 2008 (BR01 2). Made in Sweden. Pressed in USA.


Tracklist:
1. When Darkness Falls 5:10
2. Left The Ground 4:25
3. Alone 5:47
4. Pray 4:21
5. Sleeping Solution 5:20
6. Just Words 3:41
7. Burning Bridges 4:16
8. Have You Ever 4:53
9. Remember 4:14
10. Say Goodbye 6:12
Total playing time: 48:19 min.


Samples: http://www.last.fm


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The ninth full-length studio album by the legendary German Gothic/Industrial Metal band.
"Klagebilder" opens with the instrumental title track, a surprising stylistic detour for this long-running German Goth Metal band; it's not even the usual pretty, Proggy keyboard-based interlude one often finds on Goth Metal albums, but a slice of full-on downtempo Electronica that wouldn't sound out of place on an Air or Stereolab album. Following that, things move into more traditional Metal territory, but there's a distinctly Pop-oriented cast to much of the album. "Kein Liebeslied", for example, features a catchy, harmony heavy chorus that recalls '80s Pop-Metal acts like Whitesnake or Skid Row, and "Kaltes Feuer" and "Hollenbrand" blend heavy guitar riffs with synthesizer pulses straight out of vintage New Order. Some subsets of the Metal audience will no doubt be somewhat put off by this album, which is almost entirely lacking in the signifiers one expects of European Metal these days, but "Klagebilder" is an interesting updating of Metal tropes from a couple of decades previous!
Massacre Records, 2006 (MAS DP 0525). Made in Germany. First press.


Tracklist:
1. Klagebilder 2:32
2. Die Abrechnung 3:54
3. Hoffnungen 4:07
4. Kein Liebeslied 4:05
5. Kaltes Feuer 4:09
6. Der Morgen Danach 4:14
7. Warum 3:44
8. Höllenbrand 3:31
9. Nie Wieder 4:13
10. Ein Leben Lang 3:58
11. Der Nächste 4:37
12. Das Letzte Mal 3:22
13. Spiegel Meiner Seele 4:22
Total playing time: 50:48 min.


Samples: http://www.last.fm

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The eleventh full-length studio album by the legendary German Gothic Metal band.
The new album by Germans Goth Metal kings! Heavier and darker than ever!!
Crematory, a band that has been around for 20 years, have created an album full of contrasts, with violent growls coupled with kind clean vocals, brutal deadly blows, and dark, Goth-ridden and emotional tunes. Proper use of both keyboards and samples woven into the sound-frame, never feeling out of place provides a rather unusual element to this kind of music, which instantly makes this much more interesting. Thrash meets Goth meets murder hooklines!
"Infinity" is a great album from a band that knows how to offer pleasing to the ear compositions!! If you like Crematory's sound throughout the later years, you will pretty much enjoy "Infinity"!!!
Massacre Records, 2010 (MAS DP0669). Made in Germany. First press.


Tracklist:
1. Infinity 4:52
2. Sense Of Time 5:46
3. Out Of Mind 3:21
4. Black Celebration 4:56
5. Never Look Back 4:11
6. Broken Halo 4:19
7. Where Are You Now 5:02
8. A Story About... 4:51
9. No One Knows 4:28
10. Auf Der Flucht 4:35
Total playing time: 46:21


Samples: http://www.last.fm