Theatre of Tragedy - Velvet Darkness They Fear

Anonymous · **Posted:** Mon Nov 01, 2004 12:51 pm

In my humble opinion a classic for the genre.Would love to see it reviewed as a classic. Who agrees and disagrees ?

Anonymous · **Posted:** Tue Nov 23, 2004 6:26 pm

i think this album is the best album of this band there is non album like this one

Starflare · **Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2004 7:37 am

Restless_and_Dead wrote:

In my humble opinion a classic for the genre.Would love to see it reviewed as a classic. Who agrees and disagrees ?

I agree! although they changed their style and released their best disc after this one.

Lokist · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:02 am

I disagree... I liked they're S/T or Hamlet for a Slothful Vassal & Aegis better... I do like Velvet Darkness They Fear though... As for their change in style... I didn't like it... Sounded like a bastard american version of J-pop... I've read somewhere that they will be changing their style back to their roots, which I'm excited about! Even though Liv Kristine is gone now...

Starflare · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:24 am

Lokist wrote:

I disagree... I liked they're S/T or Hamlet for a Slothful Vassal & Aegis better... I do like Velvet Darkness They Fear though... As for they're change in style... I didn't like it... Sounded like a bastard american version of J-pop... I've read somewhere that they will be changing they're style back to their roots, which I'm excited about! Even though Liv Kristine is gone now...

I like the Assemby disc very much... :!:
You can listen two soundexcerpts from demosessions 2004 from their webpages www.theatreoftragedy.com

Lokist · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:31 am

Starflare wrote:

I like the Assemby disc very much... :!:
You can listen two soundexcerpts from demosessions 2004 from their webpages www.theatreoftragedy.com

Awesome! I'll check it out as soon as possible!

Anonymous · **Posted:** Thu Dec 23, 2004 11:47 pm

I enjoyed Velvet Darkness They Fear. As far as I'm concerned, after Aegis, Theatre of Tragedy's music went way downhill. I was very, very disappointed with Musique and Assembly. They weren't bad albums, but they weren't what I'd come to expect from Theatre of Tragedy and it sort of bothered me that they seem to have left that slow, atmospheric gothic-metal feel behind and crossed over into the realm of something that's almost... a bit poppy/techno-y. What happened to the growls dammit? :cry:

GirlAnachronism · **Joined:** Mon Dec 27, 2004 6:07 am **Posts:** 22

I was only recently introduced to Theater of Tragedy though the name did/does seem to ring a bell, I really like their sound, many times I need a second or third listening to an album or a song in order to start warming up to it but they got me right away.

Starflare · **Posted:** Thu Jan 06, 2005 6:12 pm

funeral bitch wrote:

I was very, very disappointed with Musique and Assembly. They weren't bad albums, but they weren't what I'd come to expect from Theatre of Tragedy and it sort of bothered me that they seem to have left that slow, atmospheric gothic-metal feel behind and crossed over into the realm of something that's almost... a bit poppy/techno-y. What happened to the growls dammit? :cry:

I disagree. Musique was a dreadful cd IMO, i think they didn't know so much about the genre they were stepping into. Assembly however was a totally different story, which is a shame because the new samples sound like they are taking a step towards their older style.
Oh well, i love it too :wink:

blood_ame · **Posted:** Sun Jan 23, 2005 12:32 pm

Restless_and_Dead wrote:

In my humble opinion a classic for the genre.Would love to see it reviewed as a classic. Who agrees and disagrees ?

I agree. Their other albums (excluding musique) are all excellent for different reasons but Velvet Darkness They Fear is total classic material.

Anonymous · **Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2005 1:14 pm

I read somwhere that this album is the first one on which anyone used Beauty and the Beast combination of vocals. Is it true?

blood_ame · **Posted:** Mon Feb 14, 2005 8:38 am

Velvet Darkness They Fear is considered by many as the "definitive" Theatre of Tragedy album and they were one of the first to use the Beauty and the Beast style but Velvet... is by no means the first album employing the style; take their self titled for example (it was released prior to Velvet..).

Anonymous · **Posted:** Mon Feb 14, 2005 10:55 am

Tnx for the answer

Zeth · **Posted:** Mon Mar 07, 2005 8:41 pm

Definetly a classic. I heard it before I got into Metal and still pick it up sometimes for a spin. Beautiful, yet dark and mysterious.

jack@metalreviews · **Joined:** Thu Sep 16, 2004 5:25 pm **Posts:** 36

definitely their best and to rank among the classiquest lol
listened to it the other day with my life... very few of them she can stand in fact...

Velvet_Darkness · **Posted:** Mon Aug 08, 2005 7:50 pm

Yeap,their best and of the best in this genre...

Eyesore · **Posted:** Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:43 pm

Darkness is scary...velvety darkness...eeh, not so.

North From Here · **Posted:** Wed Aug 10, 2005 6:09 pm

Velvet Darkness is good, doesn't come close to any of MDB's best albums though. Aegis was pretty medicore, and they have gotten worse since.

puiu · **Joined:** Sun Aug 21, 2005 8:03 am **Posts:** 1

a very very good album, but much better is the selftitled album. the other albums are so bad :evil:

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