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THE GATHERING

Always... CD

Artist: THE GATHERING
Label: Peaceville

Release Year: 2014
Artist Origin: NED
Style: dreamy atmospheric doom death metal

featuring a keyboard player in line-up from the very beginning, after practicing rougher doom/death metal for few years, Dutch pioneers of heavy progressive sound have discovered much more atmospheric music, and were quick to record a debut longplay in 1992 of direction still inexperienced in underground; effective combination of rough and dreamy, gritty and melancholic via eight enigmatic tracks has turned into a reference point for the haunting subgenre, while the miraculous vocal pair of Bart Smits and Marike Groot has massively added to otherworldly chemistry of this one of a kind recording; recent British re-issue comes with an authentic cover and remastered sound