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todiefor cult
Artist: To/Die/For
Title: Cult
Genre: Gothic Rock/ Metal
Release Date: 26th June 2015
Label: Massacre Records


Album Review

TO/DIE/FOR are one of the most prominent representatives of waves of Finnish Love Metal. They have released a new full-length release entitled ‘Cult’ proving that time has no power over them - they will keep on creating the music they've created at the dawn of this style. ‘Cult’ could have been released 10 years ago and it would be well received by the relevant public. But this relevant public has disappeared by now.

The album's opening track ‘In black’ is already known as the single and a clip; there're powerful melodic riffs and recognizable vocals by Jape Perätalo. The ‘In black’ music video is quite a typical hit by TO/DIE/FOR with its appropriate visual images next to gloomy tones and it also features the finalists of the contest Miss Rock 2015. Beautiful, gothic, but predictable. Let's go back to the tracks. Amid all this nostalgic Love-Metal-magnificence, I want to highlight ‘Screaming birds’ as it reveals furious and passionate vocals by Jape.

‘Mere dream’ reminds me of very famous hits other prominent representatives of this music genre have already produced. ‘You’ sounds like another hit of the same period, to be more precise, a song created by representatives of the German Metal scene three years ago. I don't think that it is conscious plagiarism - it's rather TO/DIE/FOR's attempt at keeping their own authenticity and creating their characteristic music as they always did. Regarding traditions: Almost every album by TO/DIE/FOR contains a cover and it's almost always a hit from the 80s. On this album it's ‘Straight Up’ by Paula Abdul. It turned out quite well, but, TO/DIE/FOR always manage covers.

I consider albums such as ‘Cult’ as a “return home” - they're filled with nostalgia and memories of past. Some of the listeners might have evaluated that “faithfulness” in context of the contemporary music scene, but this album arouses only positive emotions in me.


Tracklist

01. In black
02. Screaming birds
03. Unknown III
04. Mere dream
05. You
06. Straight up
07. Let it bleed
08. End of tears
09. Dying embers demo


Line-up

Jape Perätalo – vocals
Juppe Sutela – guitar
Eza Viren – guitar
Samuel Schildt – bass
Matti Huopainen – drums


Website

http://www.todiefor.fi / https://www.facebook.com/tdfofficial


Cover Picture

todiefor cult


Rating

Music: 7
Sound: 7
Total: 7 / 10





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