Moonspell
Persephone's Dream
Released:
Aug 1999
Label:
Pup In A Cup
This Pittsburgh outfit's homemade 1999 release gives atmospheric lady-vocaled goth metal some graspable hooks and tunes. It's more electronic and ethereal than riffy -- Dead Can Dance moodiness broken up by early '80s Rush parts, folkish ballads, an extended drum solo and a 12-minute world music lesson. Karin Nicely comes off even more new age than the frontwomen of The Gathering or Lacuna Coil, but her band looks (and often sounds) like old prog-metal guys, not death-metal guys. And it's notable that this band's sonics grew more, not less, metal as time went on; usually, the opposite happens.
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