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The Italian band Klimt 1918 was created in 1999 from the ashes of the
death-metal band Another Day. After two demos and a MCD which was (unfortunately)
never published, the boys released their debut album "Undressed Momento"
and I can tell you that something happened in the meantime, folks!
After a very bewildering Intro, I heard with astonishment a lot of
wonderful harmonies which sound very much like The Cure or Psychedelic
Furs; baffled, I read again in the booklet: no, Robert Smith hasn't left
his band. However, still the Gothic-Metal-Booster-Parts come there and
then for the inclined Metal anxious. A rather very individual but
interesting mixture is offered to your ears. A red thread of melancholy
and fragility stretches through the whole album - unfortunately, the
dreamer is startled over and over again by the louder tunes. Marco
Soellner's soft voice marvellously fits the 80's Wave harmonies and can't
neither be suppressed from louder guitar's parts. I would say that the
boys should let the Metal completely out of their minds and rather devote
themselves to their harmony-destitute side, as what comes out is
simply wonderful!
If you read through the influences of the band, even the 80's definitively
prevail: Anathema, Katatonia, The Beatles (??), Depeche Mode, The Cure,
The Smiths, Novembre, Opeth, Fields of the Nephilim, U2 or Tears for Fears.
Klimt 1918 are definitively for a long time out of their musical children's
shoes - the debut is marvellously arranged - the different styles became
1A tied together. And I'd be very curious to hear the boys live on stage.
Result: "Undressed Momento" is for the Goth metal-fans looking for
tranquillity, as well as for curious 80's Cure nostalgic persons.
Brilliant "Pale Song"! You must absolutely listen to this track!
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