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  Album Of The Week Album Of The Week - 18/10/2025 - Track 3 My third selection from Darkest White is the track Scarling. As is typical with the album it has a strong lyric and powerful melody. Album Of The Week - 18/10/2025 - Track 2 My second selection from Darkest White is the title track from the album. This song has a very powerful metal track, gothic metal that dips into their melodic death metal influences and topped with a great lyric. Album Of The Week - 18/10/2025 Darkest White - Tristania     After two weeks of Simple Minds albums we have a change of style this week as we delve back into the realms of gothic metal with the Norwegian band Tristania. Darkest White, released in 2013 is the seventh and final full length studio album from a band that was instrumental in establishing the genre of gothic metal along with fellow Norwegians Theatre Of Tragedy. Although there was quite a fluid lineup to the band, through their time they never lost that key Trista...
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  Album Of The Week 2025 - Archive Album Of The Week - 04/01/2025 Century Child - Nightwish   To kick off 2025 we have the third of my 18 Nightwish albums to be selected, the album, Century Child being the bands 4 th  studio album, released in 2002. By the time this album came out in 2002, Nightwish were already well established on the metal scene and were big selling artists, especially in their native Finland where their previous album, Wishmaster (album of the week 01/07/2023) went to number 1. As stated previously, Nightwish are a band that helped changed my opinion to metal back in the late 90’s prior to which it was not a genre that held much interest for me. Nightwish introduced me to the dark symphonic side of metal which blends rock guitars with melodic vocals, choral and orchestral effects. The mix, when done right, is powerful, atmospheric, grandiose and is generally very easy to listen to. Like any genre, there are plenty of bands that struggle to get it right...
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