Lethian Dreams

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Lethian Dreams
General information
origin Paris , France
Genre (s) Funeral Doom , Gothic Metal
founding 2002
Website www.lethiandreams.com
Current occupation
Vocals, guitar, electric bass, keyboard, drum computer
 Carline Van Roos
guitar
 Matthieu Sachs
Drums
 Pierre Bourguignon
former members
singing
 Carlos D'Agua

Lethian Dreams is a Gothic Metal and Funeral Doom band founded in 2002 .

style

The webzine Doom-Metal.com describes the music of Lethian Dreams as "ethereal and dreamy music with complicated guitar melodies and female vocals". The early work, up to and including Bleak Silver Streams , was characterized by an additional guttural growling and assigned to Funeral Doom . More recent releases, on the other hand, show a work showing that the band has a "more technical and original style". There the band mixes female vocals with elements from black metal , shoegazing and post-metal . Despite the originality mentioned, the result is sometimes assigned to Gothic Metal .

history

Carline van Roos and Matthieu Sachs, who jointly run the Funeral Doom project Remembrance and were active in the gothic metal band In Somnis , founded another joint project with Lethian Dreams in 2002. After three demos , Bleak Silver Stream was released in 2009, the band's debut album on the band's own label Orcynia Records. The band largely retained the sales framework of their own label for later releases. Only the compilation Just Passing By… & Unreleased Requiems was released on the Argentine dark wave label Twilight Records . In the course of the band's history, the fellow musicians changed alongside van Roos and Sachs a few times, but the core duo remained stable.

occupation

reception

The band received the first positive response in their demo phase. In particular, the demo Lost In Grief from 2004 was positively discussed in reviews written for various webzines . The demo for the webzine Obliveon was praised as "Atmospheric, melancholic, gloomy ...". Kostas Panagiotou certified the band in his review written for Doom-Metal.com that the band succeeded in presenting a more than satisfactory release with the demo despite the well-known components that would mostly correspond to boring Gothic Metal . In a review written for the Webzine Metalstorm, the band is attested to having a high potential for a full album release.

The 2009 debut album Bleak Silver Streams received international acclaim. From the assessment the band turned out to be “the next big thing in Doom” and “one of the best atmospheric Death Doom albums of the year” as well as the assumption that the “six tracks of this debut [...] set the bar not only for Lethian Dreams, but also very high for all other Doom bands ”, above the description as a“ decent, melancholic album that will appeal to those who appreciate the melodic side of the Death Doom spectrum ”as well as“ rousing, atmospheric and melodic Doom ”up to the verdict of Bleak Silver Streams was a delightful album“ if one could overcome a lack of originality and an abundance of clichés contained ”the evaluations remained consistently positive.

With the release of the second album Season of Raven Words in 2012, the mostly positive criticism continued. The variation of the style of music presented. The reviews written for this album praised the album, it offered "a subtle sadness with every riff, every snare and every kick." So the album shows a passion for a "dark atmosphere". Sometimes the release was described as "with the most beautiful Doom Metal ever heard" and as particularly seductive dark metal .

The reviews of the 2014 Red Silence Lodge were once again positive. It was hailed as "the best display of the band's atmospheric skills" and an album that "might not appeal to everyone but Doom fans". Also, it is an album that “those who have heard Lethian Dreams before and were not too impressed with them should check out.” The band has developed significantly and so “anyone who likes music that is heavy but still ethereal and atmospheric ”, Red Silence Lodge “ would most likely enjoy ”.

Discography

  • 2003: Mournful Whispers (demo, self-published)
  • 2004: Lost in Grief (demo, self-published)
  • 2006: Requiem for My Soul, Eternal Rest for My Heart (demo, self-published)
  • 2009: Bleak Silver Streams (Album, Orcynia Records)
  • 2011: Just Passing By… & Unreleased Requiems (Compilation, Twilight Records)
  • 2012: Season of Raven Words (Album, Orcynia Records)
  • 2014: Red Silence Lodge (Album, Orcynia Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

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