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Beautiful Darkness Indeed

andrew smith | tuscaloosa, AL United States | 03/13/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The Beauty in Darkness video collection is the greatest investment I've ever made as far as music video goes. Of volumes 1-3, volume 2 here is my favorite. These bands make music that is catchy, stirring, and SINCERE, the capitalized word being one that much mainstream music knows nothing about. Most of these bands are European gothic rock, my favorite genre, though there are one or two songs on the punk side and one ethereal number. Though the BinD Cd and video collections won't likely be a commercial success here in the states, they are well worth checking into for fans of underground metal of a gothic bent. There are one or two songs on here I don't care for, and a few I'm indifferent to, but the others are some of my all time favorite bands/videos. These favorites are videos by Evereve, In Flames, Darkseed, Atrocity, Secret Discovery, My Dying Bride ("For You" is my favorite MDB song ever) and the ever-epic Therion. Also of note are videos by Sentenced and Lacrimosa. If you are a fan of these bands or this genre, you should check into the Beauty in Darkness video collection, you won't find all these artists collected anywhere else. A great buy indeed. Now all we need is for .......... to release the video for BinD vol. 4. Rock on!"

Gothic-Doom-Death-orquestral-pop(!) compilation

Marcio Kelmanson (fastdrum@base.com | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 07/01/1998

(4 out of 5 stars)

"In this compilations we can see some extremes in the Goth-Doom-Death-pop. There are excellent tracks by In Flames, Crematory, My Dying Bride, Therion, Ever Eve,Alastis and other and some track of suspicious taste such as Lacrimosa(or you love or you hate this band, I hate!),Pyogenesis(the strange Pop section of the CD),sentenced, and dreadful shadows, thanks god that some bands in the BIDII home video aren't here such as dreamside, and some techno stuff!"