Wine From Tears - Through The Eyes Of A Mad (CD)

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The debut album of the Russian band Wine From Tears is a result of years of travel. They became famous between the lovers of this genre for their participation in Russian doom metal festivals. "Through The Eyes Of A Mad" - a harmonic mixture of hard guitars and atmospheric keyboard parts, metal riffs and wonderful melodies, like the best sides of Saturnus, Swallow The Sun and Draconian.Recording and mixing of album made by professional studio SBS Records. Disc with a gold evaporation and a splendid design of layout from the painter of Revelations of Rain and Mose fits great and compliments the impression of the amazing music by this band.

Tracklist:
1 Angels Also Die... (Intro) 1:39
2 Since I Fell... 7:02
3 The Sinner 7:46
4 Funeral Time 8:47
5 Night Of A Succubus 7:14
6 Close To Katatonia 4:22
7 Bless Me Bleeding Angels 5:57
8 The Secret Of The Woods 6:12
9 Before The Gods 7:35
10 Feeding The Angel 5:37
11 My Tears 8:01
12 Meus Altius Pater Noster 7:17

Artist:
Wine From Tears
Artist Country:
Russia
Album Year:
2009
Title:
Through The Eyes Of A Mad
Genre:
melodic death doom
Format:
CD
Type:
CD Album
Package:
Jewel Case
Label:
BadMoodMan Music
Cat Num:
BMM. 020-09
Release Year:
2009
Country Of Manufacture:
Russia
Review
Metal Daze
4.5/5
01.04.2010

Abrir un sobre del correo cada vez que la gente de BadMoodMad me envía material es abrir la puerta hacia el camino que conduce a conocer una nueva banda rusa de Doom Metal; que casi siempre, suele ser un deleite.
Un momento brillante vive el sello (aunque en realidad esto ya lleva un par de años), lo cual es puesto en evidencia cuando lanza bandas de grañidísima calidad, mayormente enroladas en el Doom y el Funeral Doom.
En esta oportunidad, contamos con el disco nuevo del quinteto WINE FROM TEARS, procedentes de Samara y formados en el 2002, que por fin en 2009 pudieron grabar y editar su disco debut.
Hablo de “Through The Eyes Of A Mad”, un larga duración (justamente de extensos minutos de audio) en el cual encontramos doce composiciones en un total de casi ochenta minutos.
WINE FROM TEARS se especializa en los sonidos oscuros del Metal fusionándolos con el Doom de bandas como Paradise Lost, November´s Doom o Shape Of Despair, e intenta siempre en sus canciones generar armonía entre la melodía y la melancolía en la mayoría de sus pasajes.
Una producción sinceramente envidiable para una banda que recién da sus primeros pasos en el mundo discográfico, incluyendo el artwork, otro punto destacable en la vida de estos rusos.
Pianos en plan atmosféricos, típicos solos a lo Greg Mackintosh (Paradise Lost, claro), guitarras acústicas, lánguidas voces…todo esto encontraremos en temas muy buenos como “Funeral time”, “The Sinner” o “Bless Me Bleeding Angel”, las cuales están al nivel de cualquier banda primer mundista.
Recomendadísimo para todos los fans del Doom, y si estás acostumbrado a las ediciones con las que Rusia últimamente nos sorprende, ya sabes de lo que hablamos.

Author: Gustavo Piccini
Review
Live 4 Metal

Rounding off my day of Doom are Russian Death/Doom merchants, Wine From Tears, who don't seem to have moved on much from the mid 90s. Being perfectly honest, there's not an awful lot to get excited about here, despite the music being of a very good standard. The problem is, that Wine From Tears are treading very old ground and they offer nothing new to a style that's been done to death for about 15 or so years. Yes, the melodies are good, the songs are of an ok standard, but there are no peaks and the vocal style is very predictable. As there are no highs to get to excited over, that leaves the listener in a state of mundane apathy. Especially when the album is 77 minutes long and I was looking for the Valium by track 4.
Review
Atlantis Tales
10/10

Если уж не искать истину в вине, то нужно искать хотя бы вино в слезах. Коллектив из Самары, существующий аж с 2002 года, наконец-то добрался до своего дебютного альбома, и путь этот был проделан не зря! А Solitude/BMM в лице WINE FROM TEARS нашли очередную жемчужину своего каталога. Традиционно затянутый для doom metal'а альбом (почти 80 минут) до последней своей минуты не дает скучать, радуя разнообразием и красотой материала, варьирующегося, правда, строго в рамках doom metal - здесь есть и скоростной дум/дэт (Close To Katatonia), и протяжный чистый дум (Bless Me Bleeding Angels), и готик-дум, и даже главенствующий гроул однажды был разбавлен женским вокалом (Feeding The Angel), а английский язык сменился на русский на заключительной композиции Meus Altius Pater Noster, исполненный в black/doom ключе. Все композиции индивидуальны и интересны по своему, но гармоничны и сбалансированы между собой. Просто замечательный дебют! Нельзя не отметить отличное оформление 16-страничного буклета - работа Corvinus (FRAILTY, NOVA ART, MOSE, ОТКРОВЕНИЯ ДОЖДЯ). Выполненные в золотых тонах обложка и буклет гармонично дополняются золотой рабочей поверхностью диска. Чтобы ориентировать слушателя, рекомендуя этот альбом к прослушиванию, можно озвучить такие имена как SATURNUS, DRACONIAN, KATATONIA, справедливо указанные в пресс-релизе, но WINE FROM TEARS не занимается под(д)елками под копирку - их материал самостоятелен и самодостаточен. Лучшие рекомендации!

Author: Atlantis
Review
The Streets
5/10
30.08.2009

Hvis du klarer å komme deg forbi den ekstremt klisne introen, så avsløres det iørefallende og småromatisk Death/Doom. Lyden er bra og sånn passe symfonisk. Du bør for all del unngå å lese tekstene, for de er langt under pari. Kanskje ikke så rart, siden bandet er fra Russland. Utover i plata bikker de over i mer symfonisk Gothic Metal, uten å være blant de mest sukkersøte innen genren. Det mikses også inn noen doser Black Metal, men akkurat det var ingen suksess for å si det mildt. Som en del andre band som blir sluppet via Solitude/BadMoonMan, sliter også dette bandet med å lage engasjerende musikk. Det blir iallfall total overdose med tolv låter og en varighet på 77 minutter. Som debutalbum er dette helt akseptabelt, med en solid plassering midt på treet.

Author: Rune
Review
My Last Chapter
6/10
01.08.2009

Jeez, if it’s not a discography I’d say 77 minutes is just too damn long for an album, and this is really a negative aspect of Through the eyes of a mad (a mad what? Might I add) as it just takes too long to get through the album. Unfortunately that’s not the only thing bugging me with the release. I can’t help but to constantly feel like they’re just trying too hard; trying too hard to sound depressive and sad. It feels a little forced. I mean, on the bandphoto in the booklet the singer is even down on his knees, looking into the sky with sand running through his fingers…
They’ve got some pretty good guitar lines and classic doom metal aspects. But as soon as I’m trying to concentrate on a good aspect of the album I instantly come up with a negative one to counteract it. Sure, the melodic guitar lines are good, but it never ends. It’s just so jam-packed with melody it’s difficult to take it in. And when the guitars sounds as they’re about to ease up on the whole thing with some heavier, more chugging riffing the rhythm guitar presents some not-so-interesting stuff (with a rather thin sound) and the lead guitarist goes on with a melodic solo instead. Besides that, the keyboard hardly ever shuts up. Although, since it’s fairly hidden behind the guitars you can block it out. The drumming, on the other hand, presents nothing interesting either as it pretty much sticks to a couple of beats with some exceptions.
It sounds like Wine From Tears is stuck in the early 90ies, unable to invigorate the typical sound, but rather treading the same worn-out path. It’s not that it’s bad; you’ve just heard it so many times before. It’s also a classic example of too much; it’s just too much of everything. The really great parts of the album are easily forgotten since it’s flooded with loads of redundancy. Take for instance the Bless me bleeding angels track, which presents both a great guitar line and an interesting keyboard. Feeding the angel is another track to remember, which offers beautiful female vocals interacting with the main male growls. Although this adds a gothic aspect (and I can’t stand goth) it’s still very well done and highly enjoyable. But as I said, this is easily overlooked and forgotten.
To me this should’ve been a 30 minute demo, for which the band would’ve gotten some response and could’ve taken some constructive criticism for; making the debut album a whole lot stronger. It’s not really bad, just flooded and a little too gothically obsessed with angels.
Review
Metalrage.com
6/10
10.08.2009

Though The Eyes Of A Mad? A mad what? Check your English before releasing a record please, haha! No matter, it’s the music that should do the speaking for them. What we have here is yet another clone of the funeral doom legends. Them being bands like My Dying Bride, Katatonia, Paradise Lost, Saturnus, Anathema and you know what I mean. Yet this clone is not one of high quality, yet. Formed in 2002, this is only just their debut album. But their guitarist seems to be a huge fan of guitarists like Joe Satriani and John Petrucci and stuff. Which means he has a very penetrating and apparent guitar sound, which kind of spoils the whole atmosphere for me. It’s depressing and melancholic of course, but then there just keeps being a guy doing solo stuff over it. Too much melody man! That’s a no no for me! Especially when it lasts for over 77 minutes!

Well I’ll take into consideration that this is probably the first time they really get feedback on their music since it’s their debut record. So I’ll say that it’s a fine way to start out, they should just think more about dynamics then about filling every inch of this record with melody. Just pound out a deadly doom riff a bit more often! Through The Eyes Of A Mad is a decent start from Wine From Tears, but they still have a long way to go before they’ll really hit the spot.

Author: DemonDust
Review
Zwaremetalen
7/10
02.08.2009

Dit Russische collectief, bekend als Wine From Tears, bestaat al sinds de prille jaren van het nieuwe millennium. Net als vele bands werden de dames en heren geplaagd door de nodige bezettingswisselingen. In de huidige bezetting werd hun nieuwe plaat opgenomen, genaamd Through The Eyes Of A Mad.

Natuurlijk is een stralende zomerdag niet het meest ideale moment om een doomplaat te bespreken, maar Wine From Tears slaagt erin om zelfs de meest feestelijke omstandigheden in een handomdraai te veranderen in een intens depressief tranendal. Dat pakt zowel positief als negatief uit. De muzikale mosterd haalt dit Russische gezelschap bij het klassieke materiaal van My Dying Bride, Katatonia en Paradise Lost vandaan. Men weet er een aardig originele draai aan te geven ook. De composities zijn zonder uitzondering lang en worden voor het grootste gedeelte op statig midtempo gespeeld. De meanderende gitaarlijnen à la Paradise Lost vormen de rode draad in het verhaal. De deprimerende sfeer wordt geschept door een dikke deken van atmosferische toetsenpartijen. Toch bezit Wine From Tears niet die essentiële kwaliteit die eerdergenoemde bands wel hebben, namelijk de kunst van de spanning in lange composities weten vast te houden. Het eindeloos herhalen van dezelfde gitaarpartijen breekt de band hier en daar lelijk op. Dit is vooral het geval in Since I Fell, Funeral Time, Night Of A Succubus en Before The Gods. Dit is jammer, want de bandleden laten wel degelijk horen dat ze hun vak goed verstaan. Productioneel zit het met Through The Eyes Of A Mad wel goed.

Wine From Tears bewijst met dit album dat ze wel degelijk potentie hebben om uit te groeien tot (sub)topper in het doomgenre. Ze hebben een vrij eigen geluid en ze weten een naargeestig sfeertje in hun nummers te neer te zetten. Op het gebied van de edele kunst van het songsmeden moeten ze nog behoorlijke stappen maken. Een degelijke release, maar meer ook niet.

Author: Raymond Westland
Review
PAVILLON 666
7.5/10
20.07.2009

L’histoire de WINE FROM TEARS commence en 2002 et après bien des remaniements de line up, ce groupe russe sort en 2009 son premier album, « Through the Eyes of a Mad. » La longue épopée qu’a du connaître le groupe explique sans doute le fait que le combo ait tenu à offrir un album aussi long. En sept ans, on peut supposer que le groupe ait disposé de suffisamment de temps pour écrire et composer. Cette divagation n’enlève en rien la qualité musicale du groupe qui nous offre un doom aux relents de KATATONIA fort agréables. La Russie semble disposer de groupes fort intéressants qui ne demandent qu’à s’exporter. En voilà un bel exemple.

Oubliez tous vos préjugés sur cette contrée qui a connu bien des déboires depuis sa Révolution d’Octobre. Il est difficile de se représenter l’ampleur du mouvement metal dans ce pays. Notre vision est sûrement encore faussée par ce que l’on peut en apprendre. Dans tous les cas, la production de cet album est impeccable, tout à fait à la hauteur de ce qu’on peut attendre de n’importe quel album actuel. Musicalement, il est vrai que WINE OF TEARS ne fait pas preuve d’une grande originalité. Ce premier album ressemble à pas mal de choses que l’on peut entendre chez KATATONIA, surtout à ses débuts. Cependant, la maîtrise du groupe fait que l’on est tout de même vite emporté par ce flot d’émotions pas toujours très joyeuses. C’est le principe de ce style en même temps. L’écoute globale n’en est toutefois pas moins agréable.

Quelques titres ont particulièrement retenu mon attention. Je pense en particulier à « Feeding The Angel », morceau sur lequel on peut entendre la voix de Elvira FATYHOVA, invitée sur ce titre. La présence d’un chant féminin contraste avec les voix gutturales que l’on peut apprécier sur le reste de l’album. « Close To Katatonia » porte excessivement bien son nom. En effet, il est difficile de savoir si c’est un clin d’œil assumé ou pas, mais dans tous les cas, ce titre rappelle énormément la musique de la formation suédoise. Ce type de morceau aux ambiances riches en claviers et en mélodies guitares contraste radicalement avec « Since I Fell… » en ouverture d’album, ou encore « Bless Me Bleeding Angels. » Ces deux morceaux ont un style beaucoup plus proche du doom traditionnel très lent et très pesant, un peu à la manière des anglais de MY DYING BRIDE. Cela permet aussi à l’album de ne pas tomber dans une sorte de rengaine. En variant les ambiances et les tempos, WINE FROM TEARS évite le phénomène de remplissage du à une répétition de formules toutes faites.

Il n’y a plus qu’à souhaiter à WINE FROM TEARS de sortir des frontières de la Russie et s’exporter dans le reste de l’Europe. Ce groupe mérite notre attention pour son professionnalisme et sa qualité. Certes, le doom n’est pas excessivement populaire par rapport à d’autres styles de metal mais, un peu de curiosité pour certains et une envie de découvrir de nouveaux groupes pour d’autres devrait permettre à ce groupe de bénéficier d’un soutien suffisant pour nous présenter rapidement un deuxième album.

Author: CHART
Review
Friendhof
8/10
01.09.2009

Dicen que la crisis se ve reflejada en las ediciones de los sellos. Pues o bien la crisis no ha llegado a Rusia, o no es cierta porque ciertos sellos rusos como “Bad Mood Man” especializados en un género tan minoritario como es el Doom están editando un nuevo álbum casi cada mes desde que empezó el año.
Sin duda la Federación Rusa está pasando una edad de oro con el Doom Metal, gracias a la iniciativa de “doom-metal.ru” y “Solitude Production” (que también han colaborado en la edición de este álbum), que espero que les dure eternamente en cuanto a sacar nuevas y geniales bandas a la luz se refiere.
Este es el caso del quinteto de Wine From Tears, procedentes de Samara y formados en el 2002, que por fin en 2009 es cuando sacan su primer álbum. Por lo cual imaginamos que es una edición muy esperada tanto por ellos como por sus fans.
“Through the eyes of a mad” es como se titula esta grabación compuesta por nada menos que 12 temas en una duración de casi 78 minutos, es decir, parece que les ha ido la vida en esta edición, como si no fuesen a editar algo más en toda su carrera.
El estilo que practican sería como una fusión entre el Doom denso y sinfónico de Shape of Despair, con las melodías melancólicas de Slumber, y un toque fantástico más en la onda de los alemanes Crematory cuyas líneas recuerdan a algunos de los riffs empleados por Wine From Tears, al igual que ciertas melodías de piano y acordes de sintetizador atmosférico.
Tiene una producción impecable, cuidada y cristalina, y como buen álbum de Doom que es, tiene todos los trozos típicos de la música Doom: solos a lo Paradise Lost, pianos melancólicos, trozos de guitarra acústica y algún tema más a medio tiempo.
Sin duda el tema más a destacar a título personal sería su cuarto corte: “Funeral time”, cuyo primer riff es tan triste y trágico que llega a lo más profundo del ser y te hace sentir congoja. Recuerda a esos temas a medio tiempo que tienen My Dying Bride que los hacen de manera tan genial.
Recomendadísimo para todos los fans del Doom, y si estás acostumbrado a las ediciones con las que Rusia últimamente nos sorprende, ya sabes de lo que hablamos.

Author: Azathoth
Review
Metal Rewievs
8.5/10
08.08.2009

So here it is – my first real surprise discovery as a reviewer! And boy, did it surprise me. I figured that my surprise virginity would be taken by something along the lines of new a Black Metal outfit with various notable influences from other genres and strong progressive tendencies, or perhaps from the latest Technical Death Metal prodigy that managed to find the perfect line straddling technicality and brutality. But this did not come to pass, as my first big surprise came out of a genre that I have next to no former experience with: Doom Metal. I’ve always been a bit iffy over the Doom style as a whole; I only ever saw it as a mostly uninteresting genre that was good for a soundtrack to your depression and for music to fall asleep to. Russian band Wine From Tears is great for both the former and the latter, yet there’s more to them than that. This is some of the most sorrowful, melodic, and gorgeous music I’ve ever heard. Perhaps that’s only because I’ve been missing out on 99% of all Doom Metal for the past four years; maybe this sound style is extremely common, going on strongly in the underground while simultaneously being completely unnoticed by this reviewer. But ignorance is bliss, and I enjoyed Wine From Tears debut so much that it makes me want to take up a higher interest in the Doom scene.

Wine From Tears play extremely melodic, keyboard-and-lead-guitar-centric Doom Metal on their debut, Through The Eyes Of A Mad (Through The Eyes Of A Mad… what, exactly? Did someone die midway through coming up with the title?). Many of the tracks are very slow-paced, mainly relying on long, simplistic yet stunning guitar lines with minimal drum work, backed by strong, sweeping synths that are in no way subtle. Since I Fell… , Bless Me Bleeding Angels, and Feeding The Angel are all examples of this style. Other songs are mid-paced, leaning almost to radio-friendly levels with standard chord structure, such as Funeral Time and Close To Katatonia (The first of these being very good, the second... not so much.). It’s in the former that Wine For Tears really shines, as some of the lead guitar lines are remarkable in their simplicity, especially when backed by the majestic keys. Some traditional doomy riffs are present, , shown especially on tracks like Night Of A Succubus, Before the Gods, and Meus Alitus Pater Noster, but even those songs are still carried by Wine From Tears’ signature melodic elements.

The vocals on Through The Eyes Of A Mad are, for the most part, nothing special. Wine From Tears’ singer pretty much plays it safe, sticking to low, deathy growls for most of the album. But he does show off a different, slightly blackened singing style on Meus Alitus Pater Noster, and his clean singing voice on My Tears, which, while not particularly mind-blowing, it’s a nice way to mix things up, and his singing voice fits in very well on that track. It’s easily one of the best on the album, and one of the saddest-sounding songs I’ve ever heard. Another track, Feeding The Angel, features clean female vocals that are actually really good; not too over-the-top, but not weak whatsoever. Most of the lyrics talk about personal emotions and angels, which almost leads me to believe that Wine From Tears is a Christian band.

Though it has some weak moments, such as the ridiculous synths on The Secrets Of The Woods and the boring acoustic stretches on The Sinner, plus the rather bland song Close To Katatonia, Through The Eyes Of A Mad ultimately holds up as a very memorable experience throughout the seventy-seven (!) minute journey thanks to beautiful lead guitar melodies (think Amon Amarth) and diverse songs. This is definitely my surprise of the month, if not of 2009, and fans of any kind of melodic metal will hopefully find a lot to like with Wine From Tears. As I mentioned earlier though, it’s all too easy for this album to relax you and put you to sleep, so it’ll probably take a few listens for the music to really sink in. Once it does though, it’s a real treat.

Author: Kyle
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