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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

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