Melandrolia - Transicion

Style:
Goth Rock, Prog Rock, Heavy Metal
sounds like The Gathering/geweldige sound!!

Mexico became a potentially big country when it comes to Metal. I'm glad I now came across with "Melandrolia" which is actually one of the most respected bands in the Mexican underground scene.

Transición is the name of their debut Full Length, a good debut which shows to us one of the coldest forms of Artistic Gothic Metal I've ever heard in my years as a reviewer. The album breaks the atmosphere with "Fármaco" a mellow song which is in fact the best prelude to what we will be hearing after. The entire album works with intricate progressions and layered structures in the backgrounds (violin arrangements and surrounding effects for example); so you'll be hearing all kind of feelings in the music.

Transición is not all about mild atmospheres and theatrical overtones; you'll be able to hear hostile movements in this album such as "Rain" "Sheol" "Lascivia", etc. those violent tracks have also odder vocal arrangements, for example "Horla" has a really bizarre dramatic chorus which sounds a little cheesy the first time, but it sounds decent once you get used to it though. The execution is as good as everything else, the chord progressions wrap the music marvelously leaving no chance to flaws in this matter, the riffing is catchy, melodious at times and aggressive once in a while; the breakdowns are the best feature in "Transición", those bridges will blew the minds of most metal-heads I know.

So as you can read this album will be a jewel shining in every metal collection, the music is great the lyrical content is fantastic, the album is really good, and I highly recommend it to all those willing to check Artistic Metal at its best.

the vocals sounds the best like Anneke van Giersbergen!!!