
‘Ein ganzes Leben’ (‘A whole life’) ties seamlessly in terms of music and content to its successful predecessors ‘Zwischen Welten’ and ‘GeZeichnet’. Sophisticated arrangements, moving melodies, large orchestrations, crisp beats and guitars, profound lyrics and the well-known tightrope walkalking between feeling, heartbreak and pathos once again prove that ILLUMINATE still are one of the spearheads of German-speaking Gothic bands after twenty-five years and are not indispensable in the scene.
“UNHEILIG, SILBERMOND and DIE ÄRZTE meet for recordings in the studio - and Richard Wagner sits at the controls. That’s how you can imagine the sound of the new album.” (Darkradio.de)
Source: Press Release