Miseration - Tragedy Has Spoken

Published July 15 2012

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Genre	Death Metal	Christian Älvestam	Vocals
Tracks	10	Jani Stefanovic	Guitar
Running time	42 Min.	Marcus Bertilsson	Guitar
Label	Lifeforce Records	Christian Lundgren	Bass
Release	29 June 2012	Oscar Nilsson	Drums
Country	Sweden	-	Keyboard
Producer	-
Similar artists	Scar Symmetry

Miseration is the third album from Swedish quasi-Christian death-metal band Miseration. It's not a band that I've followed continually but I remember that there were some aspects about their debut album that I enjoyed. I can't really say that this album really appeals to me, though. It's an okay album technically but the songs are quite boring. There is much focus on being epic and a lot of experimentation with different oriental instruments, two things that are pretty risky when playing death metal, at least in my taste.

They borrow ideas from the Swedish as well as the American death-metal scene, along with some touches of Meshuggah and a big scoop of that modern, melodic death metal that I really can't stand. In the end, unlike their debut album, it sounds more like Scar Symmetry than Hypocrisy.

They seem to want a little bit too much with this album and it gets hard to focus on the individual songs - I seem to forget them all as soon as the music stops. I guess you could give Tragedy Has Spoken a chance if you're really into modern, melodic death metal with a lot of different influences. But it's not for me.

See also review of: Your Demons-Their Angels

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
6	4	5	4	4

Summary
4 chalices of 10 - Bjorn