Search - Elijah's Mantle :: Remedies in Heresies

Dark, minimalist, liturgical rock

Stacy | 04/25/2001

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This is one of the creepier albums I've ever heard. Imagine if Dead Can Dance took the liturgical music of the Catholic Church (i.e. the ritual music of masses and other celbrations) as their source of inspiration rather than folk/world music-- and then imagine that they chose to interpret it in a manner that was especially dark and miminalist. The lyrics are chanted (yes, chanted) in a variety of languages (including Latin), and seem to represent some quite sombre subject matter, which is appropriate given the music. This would be good music to play on Halloween-- or to scare people into believing you're performing a black mass or something. It's very well done too, but the album suffers a bit from a lack of variety."