08.30
Format: CD
Release Date: 30.08.2010
Country: Ukraine
Genre: Gothic / Dark Metal
The first full-length album of Ukrainian band. High-quality material performed by young musicians has its roots in Draconian and Tristania representing their development in the conceptual album. The ideas of our ancestors about human fate and fragility of human being lie in the base of the album. As if untangling the ties of human destinies the musicians unfold the canvas featuring atmospheric keyboards, melodic guitars, female soprano and male growl. Another brilliant album for mournful contemplation of the approaching autumn.
Tracklist:
1. First Day (Intro)
2. Wait Till The Time Is R.I.P.
3. Binary
4. Behind The Mirror Of The Winter’s Fall
5. Time Comes To The End
6. Moonlight Snakes
7. Without God
8. Lost In The Wreckage Of The Past
9. Last Day (Outro)
Review
Metal Revolution
6.5/10
19.06.2011
Ukrainian based band Sideris Noctem is presenting their first full-length, a nine-tracker album entitled Wait Till The Time Is R.I.P. It is their first ever full-length since the formation of the band for more than a decade ago. One thing is certain; this CD is not the result of a haste and rush.
The whole thing begins with an instrumental and somehow emotional “First Day (Intro)”and it is as usual just a foretaste for what is to expect on the rest of the album. The rest of the opus is filled with some melodic and melancholic atmospheres, typical for this blend of doom and death metal. Song structures are rather simple and without too many expected parts. Equally, the whole album ends with an Outro serving again as a nice album closer.
Most of the time there’s this relaxing atmosphere, mainly produced on drums and depressive and melodic guitar parts. There’s also this constant and beautiful guitar soloing, and it usually works fine for most of the band. On the opposite side, I’m not the biggest fan of the keyboard effects which are more or less to be heard on each new release. However, I enjoyed big time the vocals which are either grunting male ones of gothic-singing female ones.
I love the cover artwork for this album; portraying this naked women in an artistic scene. The back cover fittingly features the same woman’s ass. Language wise everything is sung in English language, except the longest track, ten minutes long song which I even don’t know the title for.
With nine strong songs, having a good flow, much in the vein of Katatonia and Saturnus and other Doom/Death acts of the nineties, this is worth checking out.
Author: bato
Review
Imperiumi
3./10
11.04.2011
Olen paininut Sideris Noctemin kanssa pitkään, mutta ukrainalaiskopla vetää negatiivisessa mielessä hiljaiseksi monella tasolla. Ok, vielä yksi yritys.
Aloitetaanpa ruodinta vaikkapa typerästi nimetyn debyytin kansikuvasta, joka herätti heti ikävät ennakkoaavistukset. Kaiketi kannessa tavoiteltiin ajatuksen tasolla jonkinlaista synkkää eroottisuutta, mutta rumasta jäljestä vastaa kädetön taiteilija.
Sitten sisällön pariin. Keskiaikaishenkinen intro on Wait Till the Time Is R.I.P.:n siedettävintä antia, mikä kertookin karusti esikoisen tasosta, sillä orkesterin varsinaista osaamiskenttää on melodinen death/doom metal. Paikoitellen hitaasti etenevästä musiikista nousevat mieleen Crematory ja My Dying Bride, joskin näin toivottoman yhdentekevää materiaalia vertailukohteet eivät päästäisi hyppysistään edes lobotomiatilassa.
Pahiten levyssä silittää vastakarvaan mielikuvituksettoman tylsä sävellystyö, jota väärällä tavalla ankea tunnelma vain korostaa. Risukimpun arvoisia suorituksia ovat myös yksitoikkoista yksitoikkoisempi miesörinä ja suunnattoman rasittava naisvaikerrus.
Sideris Noctem hengentuotteesta on vaikea repiä mitään kehuttavaa, koska parhaimmillaan Wait Till the Time Is R.I.P. ei herätä minkäänlaisia tunteita, muutoin se vain ärsyttää ja väsyttää. Enköhän ole sanonut sanottavani, nyt tämä tyhjänpäiväisyys ulos soittimestani!
Author: Niko Määttä
Review
Maelstorm
4.7/10
Despite all the boobies on the front cover, you can’t actually hear the breasts in Sideris Noctem’s music, unfortunately. However, like the breasts on the front cover, which are courtesy of the same woman, shot in different poses, looking like Maria Belucci’s notably less-attractive cousin, the music of Sideris Noctem is the same thing, over and over… and much better versions of it exist out there.
With tasteless titillation as centerpiece, a groan-worthy album title, all that you need to complete the whole is run-of-the mill, superfluous music, which Sideris Noctem does not fail to deliver. Ok, it’s not terrible (although the vocals often are), but it’s plastic, hollow, derivative gothic metal that you’ve heard lots before, which isn’t exactly the best style the metal world has to offer. (4.7/10)
PS: The back cover fittingly features the same woman’s ass. Incredibly, the content of the booklet does not feature her spread labia. Something to improve on for next time.
Author: Roberto Martinelli
Review
The Streets
3/10
07.12.2010
Gothic Metal er definitivt lettvekteren av de genrene som benytter seg av Death Metal-growling og av en eller annen grunn skal det utrolig mye til for å skape noe som ikke bare blir til fjas og intetsigende musikk. Ukrainske Sideris Noctem gjør ingenting for å endre på den oppfatningen, faktisk er deres bidrag blant de mest fjollete jeg har hørt. De suller seg bort i det vasne sammensuriet deres av dårlige riff, manglende trøkk, uinspirerte ideer, kjipe stemninger, kjedelige arrangementer og latterlig operavokal. At de har med seg tre gjestevokalister som skitner til bidraget til deres faste medlem, som growler som best han kan, er totalt uforståelig. Bandet har helt tydelig musikalitet i blodet sitt og de er langt unna å være et totalhavarert orkester, men «Wait Till the Time Is R.I.P.» er fullstendig blottet for alt det som utgjør ei god plate
Author: Rune