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Scarlet Leaves – Deep Sad Frustration
Sello: Wave Records
Formato: CD, Album, Limited Edition, Cd Digipack
País: Brazil
Fecha: 2015
Estilo: Goth Rock, Ethereal, Darkwave, Shoegaze

Unlike “Outlining States of Mind”, that brought more lyric and sentimental lines, in this new album we explore another side of Scarlet Leaves. “Deep Sad Frustration” still keeps the idea of bringing songs and lyrics with abstract and elaborated contents.
On this album, the instrumental brings more orchestrated lines and highlights the violas, cellos and violins.

Some percussions are more intense. The guitars are still wandering according to every sound and the synths and other programming are more profound and present than the first album.
The voice is still soft but not so lyrical. We brought a more mature and secure voice for this material, showing a musical development.

In some songs we bring real facts of life, such as in “The Misfortune” involving a limited human being, unable to live in their own freedom.
In “Luxuriae”, we try to be poetic in relation to one of the seven deadly sins, Lust.
“Alma” once was called “Believe”, because this song talks about believing, going crazy and imagination.

On the other hand, “Dust and Silence” travels in hope and confusion, reflected in tears through pain.

The idea behind “Godforsaken” was bringing a story through the eyes of an angel abandoned by God.

In “Persephone Garden” we fled a bit from the idea of the other songs to tell our version of the story of Persephone and Hades, characters in Greek mythology.
And finally “Misth” is mysterious as always. It’s up to the listeners to interpret what it means to them.

Soror Dolorosa – Apollo
Prophecy Productions ‎– PRO 183
Format: CD, Album
Country: Germany
Released: 14 Sep 2017
Style: Goth Rock, Post Punk

Paris-based Soror Dolorosa creates raw and hungry gothic rock inspired by post-punk, death rock and cold wave. French for ‘Sister Pain’, Soror Dolorosa was formed in 2001 by vocalist Andy Julia. Taking its name from the novel “Bruges-la-morte” by Flemish symbolist writer Georges Rodenbach, Soror Dolorosa channels its inspiration’s strong undercurrents of passion, nostalgia and mourning, transferring those powerful emotional states into its music and live performances. These signature elements of the group’s sonic formula are heard in its muscular songs, jangling guitars, overdriven bass lines, driving rhythms and Julia’s distinctive, dramatic vocal style.

Four years in the making, “Apollo” is Soror Dolorosa’s crowning achievement; a bombastic dystopian world view encapsulated in dark popcraft. Melodic and memorable, the album shines a light on both stunning beauty and haunting sadness with Julia’s foreboding, prophet of doom baritone soaring on down a long and lonesome highway full of baroque, exquisite anguish. The four sides of the double LP are presented like the passing of the four seasons, creating an audio life cycle. With Soror Dolorosa, everything starts and ends within this ancestral conception.

“Travels were the key inspiration for the songs on ‘Apollo’,” Julia says. A renowned editorial photographer in Paris’ elite fashion industry, the frontman is also an exhibited artist and published author who travels the globe. “Passing through plains, mountains, cities, forests and deserts; all of these sensations, all of these smells are remembered and represented within the songs simple melodies and die hard grooves.”

Long associated with acts such as Alcest, Les Discrets and Lantlôs, it makes perfect sense for Prophecy to welcome Julia and Soror Dolorosa to its family of artists. Long compared to standard-bearers such as Fields of the Nephilim, The Sisters of Mercy, Joy Division and Bauhaus, it too makes sense that Soror Dolorosa continues to grow its sound and vision; and with “Apollo”, they have taken that very next step. For the band, “Apollo” isn’t just a new album, it’s a spiritual quest.

“Apollo” will be released as a digipak CD, gatefold 2xLP (on 180g vinyl, including special vinyl mastering) and as a deluxe 3xCD/DVD artbook (measuring 28×28 cm, including 72 pages) including the “Rive Gauche” live album on 2xCD and DVD featuring 110 minutes of concert footage. In tandem with “Apollo”, Prophecy will also reissue Soror Dolorosa’s entire back catalog which includes “Severance” (2009, with unreleased bonus track), “Blind Scenes” (2011) and “No More Heroes” (2013).

Edition:
– Digipak CD