Continuing the occasional series of music reviews, I decided to look back through my Amazon wishlist (where I save stuff that is interesting but I may or may not buy), and saw that an album in there was reduced by some margin, and even better was now £6.66: the price of the beast.

How could I resist? Well, I couldn’t. It’s the style my learned colleague refers to as “those wailing women”, more kindly referred to symphonic metal/gothic metal. The best known example is probably either Within Temptation (though, like the Sisters of Mercy, they eschew the goth tag) or Nightwish, but what I’d chosen was Tristania‘s Darkest White.

This should have come off my wishlist into a basket years ago: it’s a cracker: the crashing guitars and drums, the “wailing women” along with 2 types of male vocals.

Sad they’re no more, really, this being their last album back in 2012 🙁