THE GATHERING

Release Year: 2022
Artist Origin: NED
Style: expressive emotional ethereal atmospheric metal

one of the pinnacle, for sure in top three albums of their illustrious career, this nine tracker [1997], featuring the standout voice diva Anneke Van Giersbergen with her strong, emotional and charming approach, ranging from a powerful throaty wail to a sweetly tuneful caress that belies deliberate, crunching musical accompaniment, it sums up the versatility and grip of highly sensitive sound picture with exceptionally dark and brooding melodies and haunting atmosphere, where progressive, cinematic, dreamy and simply unprecedented tracks ideally fit effective visuals of nature and poetic lyrics as well, giving birth to such masterpieces as The May Song and Shrink; recent limited white and blue marbled purple vinyl edition comes with a remastered sound, special silver print renewed original artwork, and pro-printed lyric inner sleeve