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Artist: The Sorrow
Album: Origin Of The Storm
Label: Drakkar Entertainment
Playtime: 53:53 min
Genre: Metal
URL: http://www.thesorrow.net/
Rip date: 2009-02-26
Street date: 2009-02-25
Size: 90.22 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 221 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo

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How these guys have surprised us! THE SORROW from Austrias idyllic Voralberg
region arrived on the scene almost exactly 18 months ago with their debut,
Blessings From a Blackened Sky, steamrolling everything that stood in their
way. A band that youd expect to find in the UK, Sweden or the US, certainly
not in the German-speaking territories, had entered the great heavy metal
arena. With a strong first release that lived up to top international
standards under their belt (Album of the Month in Metal Hammer), the
musicians surrounding charismatic frontman Mtze took Europes stages by
storm, performing well over 150 gigs, playing the Wacken Open Air, Tuska,
Nova Rock, Metal Camp and the Rock Hard festival, among others (the bonus CD
of the limited edition includes songs from the Rock Hard open-air festival!).
They visited Finland and France as well as Berlin, Bochum and Bregenz.
Austrias most successful metal act shared stages with renowned acts such as
Children Of Bodom, Devildriver, Heaven Shall Burn, Killswitch Engage and
Chimaira.

THE SORROW have always convinced their audience in every respect, and it goes
without saying that this attitude has catapulted the band into the premiere
league of European metal acts in no time at all. The magazine, EMP, have been
proved right in their prediction, commenting in summer 2007 that the future
definitely belongs to The Sorrow! Backed by so much impetus, the band
naturally put their shoulders to the wheel to follow their debut album with a
real bang.

THE SORROW have surpassed themselves with Origin Of The Storm and are set to
deliver an album that is a real highlight, their familiar brute and extremely
refreshing manner of celebrating their contemporary metal sound having been
perfected on their new album.

The raw parts get down to business with even more determination, the riffing
is even more refined, the chorus even bigger and more anthemic than on their
first album. At the same time, THE SORROW move in the tradition of
contemporary metal acts such as Trivium, In Flames and Slipknot.

The metalcore passages, which were still strong on the debut, have moved into
the background, although the band continue to include this facet in their
sound while enjoying forays into all kinds of different metal segments. This
should hush even the last sceptics who accused THE SORROW in their early days
of sounding a little too much like Killswitch Engage, seeing that what we get
to hear on Origin Of The Storm is much more diverse. The chorus of a real
killer like the brutal Raising The Devil brings Judas Priest to mind rather
than getting tied up in technically tangled sounds. The amazing density and
power, the pure, unadulterated metal on Origin Of The Storm is an outstanding
characteristic of the new THE SORROW album.

This veritable heavy metal steam hammer of an album was recorded and produced
by Toni Meloni (Caliban, Tote Hosen, among others) at the Principal Studios
near Mnster, where THE SORROW had already cut their much-lauded debut.

All in all, THE SORROW definitely sound more mature. Tracks such as Where Is
The Sun? come along in such a tight and harmonious style that youd expect
these guys to stem from Gothenburg in Sweden rather than Western Austria, an
assumption which is underlined by the powerful, Amon Amarth-oriented
Collector Of Tears.

While the thrashy Scars captivates with its irresistible mix of grooves and
harmonies, Heaven Is No Place For Us is likely to cause many a whiplash
injury, helping itself with Cradle Of Filth-like screams and massive power
riffing in true Pantera style to a broad range of tough contemporary sounds.

The Sorrows lyrics on Origin Of The Storm reflect clearly more personal
subjects than their debut did. They are about disappointment and anger,
generated by people in their environment who caused the storm mentioned in
the album title and threatened to throw them off course. But they also pay
respect to those people whove stood by them in difficult times, like in the
epic Anchor In The Storm, which reveals a whole new and extremely heavy
facet of The Sorrow.

Power, energy and anger in combination with well thought-out arrangements and
breathtaking chorus parts it seems the band have learned a lot in the past
one and a half years and have summed up the essence of their musical work.

Conclusion: Origin Of The Storm is a real killer, even capping as was to be
expected the debut release! Prepare yourselves for a storm that will reduce
to rubble the stages of Europes clubs and turn the circle pits in front of
those stages into tornados!

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01. Apnoia ( 1:36)
02. Where Is The Sun? ( 4:28)
03. My Immortal Guardian ( 4:24)
04. Scars ( 4:40)
05. Eyes Of Darkness ( 5:29)
06. Raising The Devil ( 4:45)
07. Anchor In The Storm ( 5:24)
08. From This Day On ( 3:17)
09. Heaven Is No Place For Us ( 4:08)
10. Tempestuous ( 1:22)
11. Collector Of Tears ( 4:24)
12. Faceless ( 5:09)
13. Day Of The Lord ( 4:47)

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