This is funeral music! Get out your sackcloth and burn down some wood to hot ashes. Prepare to repent of your wicked ways in a hopeless swagger. That's what this record will do to you. This music is post and parcel made for an as yet unwritten, tragedy. It's brooding and foreboding. The vocals are sung in a monotone, monk chanting fashion. Layered behind the poetic lyrics are grand orchestration, keyboards, and some programming.
The cool thing about writing for RevZ is that I never know what I'm going to get handed to review. As we are a metal-zine this music would ordinarily not fit in to the metal category. I must tell you that this isn't metal at all. You will not hear guitar one. No drums either except for some low booming Celtic type drums here and there. However I think more than a few metal heads would dig this because it is not mainstream and contains some very deep lyrics. There are big, powerful, dare I say, heavy moments on the disc but it is generally pretty quiet.
This is a dark movie score. A movie containing hope, loss, death and a myriad of swimming emotions. It is clearly produced and has a full sound. For what it is, I am sure it is the best. I am really not familiar with this genre enough to make comparisons to anything else or other bands. I will tell you this though: It is lamenting, mournful, and prayer-like. Those are not bad things , but it is not something that will make regular rounds in your Cd deck.
Still, I am glad I have been exposed to it and will listen to it from time to time when the mood fits. I could tell you that if you like Enya's quieter moments on her albums, then you would probably like this, though the vocals are sung by a male. He is very talented too. Good clean vocals, not hard to understand what he is singing about. So all in all, if you're in the mood for something different, quiet, and are needing to just chill out with some ambient background music, then this will surely fit the bill. There is some info on them @
www.prophecy.cd as well as an MP3 to give you an idea of what I'm talking about.
Written by
David Sunday, August 10, 2003
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