(Massacre Records) Total Time: 46.21
“Infinity”is the title of the eleventh full length album for the German pioneers CREMATORY, a band which manages to balance almost 20 years now between the thin lines of death and gothic metal, not always with the success of their present work I must say...This one sounds like a true gothic album with seminal elements of death, doom, even thrash music, providing the listener a pleasant hearing that does not allow any boring moments nor any “de za vou” impression…
The album consists of ten powerful tracks full of keyboards, that are clothing them almost the whole time melodically, so much as intro themes as much as choruses lines, a variety of vocal styles between growling death male vocals, clean “popish” ones under an imposing mid tempo, most of the times, rhythm, giving a general feeling of darkness, melancholy and “verboten”. A gothic style clear from “clichés” and outmoded patterns, embellished with a fresh attitude more commercial than before riffing, that gives a nice and cold breath of fresh and cold German air to the disoriented and half-bred gothic genre of today.
Outstanding tracks such as “Infinity”, “Never Look Back”, an industrial “ramstein-like” full of growling and clean vocals and staccato rhythm one, Depeche Mode’s cover “Black Celebration” and “Where are You Now”, a death, thrash growling less gothic musical theme, have the power to nominate “Infinity” as one of the best gothic albums for 2010.
“Infinity” is not only a decent gothic album, it’s a musical suggestion whether you are a follower or not…
