THE GATHERING

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

featuring a keyboard player in line-up as a full-time member from the very beginning, after practicing rougher doom/death metal for few years, Dutch pioneers of ferocious and heavy, yet highly progressive and expanding sound have discovered much more atmospheric music, and were quick to record their seminal longplay debut in the first week of March 1992, revealing direction still inexperienced in underground by that time: effective combination of gritty and dreamy, obscure and melancholic via eight enigmatic tracks has turned into a reference point for the haunting metal 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 image and remastered sound