Sirenia

Anybody here like this female fronted gothic metal band?

They are basically an offshoot from Tristania, but personally I feel they have outdone them. I also love Tristania by the way.

Let's discuss this band!

I feel that their newest album, "Nine Destinies and a Downfall" is fantastic. It's actually my album of the year so far.

Count me in as a Sirenia fan. I haven't heard much of their materials, but with whatever I have heard - I like 'em.

Yeah good stuff I like most anything that is female fronted!

Wargod48

NP: Black Betty - S/T, stonerish dOOm.

I only have their newest one, but I've heard their older material and like it quite well.

When I heard Elixir For Existence it was the closest thing to Theatre Of Tragedy's older material than any other goth metal band I've listened to. So that one is one I listen to very often. The new one is good but different enough from Elixir that it may take some more listens to like it as much.

Present!

Great band. Morten Veland showed that he was truly the mastermind behind Tristania when he left and started Sirenia. I still like what Tristania has done since, but there's no doubt it's very different. The latest Sirenia is excellent, though I can't help but feel the album is a way-too-obvious attempt at mainstream success. It's very poppy, and it's not nearly as heavy as the previous Sirenia albums. There's only like two songs that contain any sort of death metal vocals. Great album, but the drastic switch in style kind of bugs me.

Eyesore wrote:

Present!

Great band. Morten Veland showed that he was truly the mastermind behind Tristania when he left and started Sirenia. I still like what Tristania has done since, but there's no doubt it's very different. The latest Sirenia is excellent, though I can't help but feel the album is a way-too-obvious attempt at mainstream success. It's very poppy, and it's not nearly as heavy as the previous Sirenia albums. There's only like two songs that contain any sort of death metal vocals. Great album, but the drastic switch in style kind of bugs me.

I agree on all counts!

Morten Veland is a mastermind guitarist and he knows how to really have a solid sound. The best of this genre IMO. I agree that when he left Tristania there was a hole left in his void. Sirenia picked right up where Tristania left off - in a good way.

About "Nine Destinies and a Downfall" being more 'poppy' and 'commercial' - I agree here too. I do think it's quite the most pop oriented they've ever been - and perhaps they are striving for some radio airplay. They are getting some too in Europe - so perhaps it's paying off.

Normally when a band I love does something like this - I don't like it. However, it seems to work very well in Sirenia's favor here. Personally I feel the lack of death metal vocals gives the album a fresher sound than ever before. I also feel the harmonies and the pop elements sound very great in this atmosphere. It just works!

One thing that I really notice whenever I crank this album (and I've cranked it a LOT since buying it months ago), is the sheer heaviness of the guitars. I really like that. It does a lot for the album to keep it in a true and solid 'metal' state.

Have you ever heard Battelore? If not, you may want to check them out.

I know the question was not directed at me but I do know Battleore and am quite impressed. When I saw an advertisement for the new album in Metal Edge it was called symphonic power metal but I wouldn't quite call it power in as much as I'd call it gotic metal. What makes it even more good for me is that all the lyrics have to do with Tolkien's Middle Earth so there is nothing to make me dislike it (i'm turned off by lyrics that attack my faith and beliefs).

Yes! I've heard Battlelore. I was impressed with the few songs I've heard. Never have picked up anything by them though.

What albums would you recommend starting with?

I would say that Sword's Song is the best to try out first. The previous album is a bit more raw, while the following two have a different male singer, whose vocals are a bit more caustic. If you like Sword's Song, you should have no problems getting into the rest of their albums.

And yes, they take the Lord of the Rings stuff far more seriously than other bands that have used those stories as lyrical material. Battlelore make it seem far more believable, thus respectable. It doesn't feel like just an album theme with Battlelore. Have you seen their videos? This is no theme; it's an integral part of the band, as important as the music itself. Very cool, and not cheesy at all.

Another band from Norway that I love is Sirenia!

Any fans?

I love how they mix elements of extreme metal (black and death) with power metal and gothic metal.

They are one of my all time favorite bands! I have almost everything by them. but I am missing one album I think.






Here's a link if you want to check them out!

http://www.myspace.com/sirenia

Metallic Blaze wrote:

Another band from Norway that I love is Sirenia!

Any fans?

I love how they mix elements of extreme metal (black and death) with power metal and gothic metal.

They are one of my all time favorite bands! I have almost everything by them. but I am missing one album I think.






Here's a link if you want to check them out!

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This crazy man we have about the same taste in music! Though I thought they were better when they had Henriette with my favorite album being the Elixir one.

Cool 325!

"An Elixir for Existence" is the only album I'm missing!

My favorite is "Nine Destinies and a Downfall", but their latest one is killer as well! Their new singer is pretty swell IMHO.

I'd rank what I have like so:

1. Nine Destinies and a Downfall 10/10
2. The 13th Floor 9.5/10
3. Sirenian Shores 9/10
4. At Sixes and Sevens 9/10


They certainly don't have a bad album!

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Metallic Blaze wrote:

Another band from Norway that I love is Sirenia!

Any fans?

I love how they mix elements of extreme metal (black and death) with power metal and gothic metal.

They are one of my all time favorite bands! I have almost everything by them. but I am missing one album I think.






Here's a link if you want to check them out!

http://www.myspace.com/sirenia[/quote]

This crazy man we have about the same taste in music! Though I thought they were better when they had Henriette with my favorite album being the Elixir one.

I prefer that one too. Closest thing to old school Theatre Of Tragedy I've been able to find. However, I do like the new one (mainly because the death vocals are back-a reason why many don't like it).

yeah, the new one is great! It's in my top 5 for the year so far!

I think Sirenia was outdoing Tristania, especially with the first two albums. But they pretty much became Tristania on Nine Destinies. I still love both bands, even if they've each mostly abandoned their doom-death roots, but I thought Morten left Tristania and formed Sirenia because he didn't like the direction they were going.

Ironic, that.

Love-hate relationship here..

Some stuff on 'Nine Destinies' is some of their best IMO, and then other stuff on it is sickeningly commercial Lacuna Coil girlgoth junk. The chugging start-stop riff stuff all over the place, ugh. However, then there's also a song like 'Seven Keys and Nine Doors', with everything that was once good about the band in check, and Veland's vocals sound great on it, and - hey - a nice guitar lead. Too bad there's not more of those. There never were, but that lack of that type of dynamic brought their material down some I felt. I think the debut is their most solid, but again, there's little in the way of bridge parts or soloing that takes the songs somewhere else, so it can end up sounding too repetitive. The latest one, everything I heard from it sounded like a mix of a lot of what I hate about modern 'melodic' metal, so...that's a big no as of present..

In conclusion, I also love the Leonard Cohen cover.