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THE WOUNDED (NER) “Monument” (2002) [COLD BLOOD INDUSTRIES]
To just say I am enthusiastic is not enough to express the real value of this work.
“Monument” will first monopolize your mind for the entire hour of total running time and after that, as the title seems to suggest, it will endure in you with a remote sense of bewilderment.
The Wounded set their sound between the dark melodies of The Cure and the more metal ones but still gloomy Katatonia’s guitar riffs, adding a proper use of keyboards, experimental parts and even alienating ambient tunes (like in the song “Monument”). Being also fairly influenced by the painful notes of Anathema, certainly perceptible in songs like i.e. “Red” and “Backheart”, the band still defends its own strong musical approach that conquests me completely.
The performance of the singer Marco Van der Velde is absolutely outstanding: he properly express the lyrics inspired by grief, insanity and all the diverse deepest and hidden emotions, singing through whirls of sorrow, rage’s storm and then abandon fragile crystals of pain in our pale hands.
Review by Lidia Buscaino
Reviewed by Lidia Buscaino