CEMETARY Sweetest Tragedies - 1999 Swedish Metal compilation CD
Format: CD Condition: New Year of Release: 1999 Cat. No.: 13625 Label: Thend
This greatest-hits set successfully chronicles the career of Sweden's Cemetary, tracing the group's transformation from brutal death metal into a techno-inflected, gothic metal sound.
Except for the nonchronological song sequence, there is little to criticize here, as even the band's earliest, most primitive songs ("Where the Fire Forever Burns," "And Julie Is No More," "Where the Rivers of Madness Stream") possess distinctive melodies and hooks. Of the band's later, "post-growl" material, highlights include "Scarecrow," "Ophidian," and "Sweet Tragedy."
Closing the album is the song "Sundown," the name used by bandleader Mathias Lodmalm for a side project that eventually lured him away from Cemetary.
~ Eduardo Rivadavia, All Music Guide
TRACK LISTING:
1 Last Transmission 2 Scarecrow 3 Caress The Damned 4 By My Own Hand 5 Ophidian 6 Where The Rivers Of Madness Stream 7 Pale Autumn Fire 8 And Julie Is No More 9 So Sad Your Sorrow 10 Elysia 11 Sweet Tragedy 12 Where The Fire Forever Burns 13 Sundown
