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Band: LIVORES MORTIS


Country: Czech Republic
Product title: The Garden of Emotion
Kind of product: Full-lenght CD
Release year: 2002
Label: Sheer Records
Genre: melodic gothic black death
Line-up: Josef Giuseppe Podzimek (guitars)
        Robert Vondra (bass)
        Libor Fanta (keyboards, vocal)
Tracks: 1. Intro
       2. The Thoughts of Hell
       3. The Labyrinth of a Dream Empire
       4. Tomorrows of Virtual Reality
       5. Life in a Cube of Ice
       6. Enter through Eternal Fire
       7. The Story of a Stone Courtyard
       8. Face to Face
       9. The Gallery of Dreams
       10. Winter
       11. The Feast of Hate
       12. Outro
Total time: 58:19

Review: This is very old for a review, but as Pepino, their guitarist sent it for that, I'll review it anyhow. Livores Mortis is a new band for my ears, although I kinda follow the Czech metal scene since '98 or '99, but I've never heard of them. That's maybe because of the overpopulation of the Czech metal scene also. That's a country that produced many, many talented bands along the years and the main feature of most of them was and still is the combination of metal with electro or synthetic elements. Anyone knows or should know Czechs' appetite for innovation. Livores Mortis are trying their way of bringing something new to the scene. Their music is a sort of gothic black death with many melodic touches and as I've said earlier, many synth elements. This is not a ground breaking release but at least it's not boring at all and I had big pleasure in listening to all their tracks. Some of them are really good, with catchy rhythms and memorable parts. It's metal, it's melodic, it tries its best to be original and is a good starting point for this band, so why shouldn't you search for it? Tracks 3 and 4 are really full of potential but with a bit more work on their flowing rhythm. They need to be more bounded... And maybe they should give the guest female vocalist a permanent place in the band...

Contact: www.sweb.cz/livores.mortis