Shadows Toward My Sky
Forever Lost My Dying Love
[Independent]
Shadows Toward My Sky is a German young romantic dark metal band with six (!)
members. They might consider themselves black metal (they wear facepaint in the
cover picture) and I have seen them labelled as black metal, but I don’t think
that love and tears and pity of loneliness are topics for black metal.
This isn’t anything sound-wise grim or satanik either. A point of comparison
would be Katatonia at the ”December Souls” era. Mostly slow- and mid-paced
tempos, with melodramatic guitar lines and despairingly screamed vocals. There
are also moments of unnecessary gothik low male sorrowful speech. The B side
track is faster, more brutal and there is someone squeaking for 20 seconds or
so. How appropriate!
This band has instrumental skill and this EP sounds competent enough to assume
that they will get a record deal soon if they do not have such already. It’s
produced in a studio and the songs are done with some artistically valid
inspiration that made this quite listenable for me, too.
© 1999 black hate