Dark Clouds in a Perfect Sky

I will be sincere, this is the first time that I listened to a whole gothic metal album, I was curious, because I liked one song from this band very much, "Der letzte Tag" (the last day) and I decided to listen to the entire album, what a great idea, my vision of gothic metal changed completely. I thought it would be like Evanescence or something like that, but I was wrong, this genre is actually metal, obviously not as hardcore as "thrash" or "death", but it's metal.

Well, let's get started, first, the title says it all "dark clouds in a perfect sky": When I listened to the songs I felt happy but at the same time I could feel that darkness that was involved, and most of the credit goes to the great Sabine Dünser, simply an awesome female voice that fits perfectly with metal music. Talking about the instruments, everyone did a good job, guitar, bass, keyboards and drums. The riffs play a major role, they're heavy enough to be considered metal (a very good guitar player in my opinion), you don't get a feeling that you're listening to an alternative rock band. The drums and the bass lines are pretty good too (not excellent though). Finally the keyboards add the final part to the dark vibe on the album.

At times the music sounds so gloomy, those crunchy riffs mixing with Sabine's beautiful voice (considering the lyrics too, which are mainly sad) and the keyboards sounding so deep make a gloomy sound. Nevertheless, it's not an album that will make you feel depressed or something like that, actually it feels more like a sense of hope. If you listen to the album when going through hard times, it might help you to feel a little more upbeat.

I really liked the album, a dark sound in every song, that beautiful female voice and every instrument adding an important part to the songs, those heavy riffs, awesome drumming and decent bass lines made me love this album. And you may not forget the keyboards, which along with the riffs create the dark vibe on the album.

Now, I would like to do a track-by track review, but it would take so long, and probably not many people would read the review, I only want to mention some outstanding songs "Der letzte Tag", "Anger", "Heart in Chains", "Die Zeit", "Devil Inside You" and "Are You Missing Me?". Although, there's a song that is clearly not metal: "Ballade", as it names states, it's a ballad, but more like a pop-ballad, it doesn't have any metal elements, but Sabine's sweet voice should be enough to make you like this song.

Finally I would like to say that the fact that there are some songs in german, makes the album more interesting (fortunately I understand the language) and even more because the accent is so unique, given that they're from Liechtenstein, actually it's the only band from that country, that I know, that could achieve some international success, sadly it was very ephemeral, since it all ended after Sabine's tragic death.