Cybele - Songs of Soil
This is album number two for this all-female Goth Rock band and once again, they give us some fairly gloomy (or is that spooky?) guitar-based Goth. The weird thing about this album and any other release by this band is that I always find it in the Metal section of any record store I go to. This is not Metal. This is Goth. If I wanted to listen to Goth, I would look in the Goth section. Once again, we have another band being marketed to the wrong people. I found myself comparing them to bands such as The Shroud or Switchblade Symphony quite a lot and the comparisons are quite valid. These ladies sound a lot like their peers. I guess the Goth sound is fairly derivative to some extent and though the songs are good, give Switchblade or The Shroud a spin and you will find that you could stick a cut by Cybele on one of their CDs and not even notice the difference. The fact that these ladies are from Norway has little bearing on the fact that they could be from the Bay Area (where the previously mentioned Shroud and Switchblade are from) and nobody would notice the difference in their sound. I’m not saying that this band sucks. They just sound so derivative that there is virtually nothing that distinguishes them from others of their kind.
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