Review:

on 2009-12-19 Amandalake Said:

Angelika & Demons
Easy Death (demo)
Digital Release Date: 2009 11 15
Distribution: Itunes, Amazon, Rhapsody

Easy Death is the demo album of Angelika & Demons, gothic rock/metal Internet project led by songwriter and singer Angelika (Russia). As it is a demo album which was recorded at home studio I will not enlarge much on quality of the record though it is not so bad.

First sounds of the beautiful piano ballad Easy Death which opens the album immediately remind of Evanescences hit songs Bring Me to Life and My Immortal. The influence of the famous female-fronted goth metal band is evident.

At the same time, Angelikas vocal differs from Amys. While Amy is crying from pain, Angelikas celestial voice is sad, melancholic, pensive. Easy Death and other piano ballads in the album are very heartwarming. They tell about death but full of hope and love. The heroine spends time in prayers waiting for the happy moment of decease. Take me to the blessed light from the darkness of the night, - asks she.

The other half of the album includes metal songs (Requiem, Love never dies, heavy version of Easy Death, Dead Night and The Earth). It's the heavy/power/gothic metal of groups like Nightwish that influences this part of Easy Death. And really strong females opera vocals, not inferior to Tarja Turunen, are a real and unexpected enjoyment. After the moment of Tarjas leaving we desperately lack for a good female opera singer in gothic metal bands.

One more song I should certainly mention, the most strange and mysterious in the album, is called Zemlya. The song is an unusual, electronic musical composition with hypnotic vocal and echoes, and I had gooseflesh listening to it. There is something in the song which hard to explain, it looks like a strong cosmic power inside it. Could Zemlya really be a message from God? If yes what did God wish to tell us through the song? Does Zemlya really can cure and make ones dreams true? Listen to it and feel yourself, I can just assure you that this strange song is a real magik.

I would recommend Easy Death to fans of female-fronted bands like Evanescence/Nightwish and for all listeners who are looking for spirituality in music.

Written by Nickolas Stone December 15, 2009
Rating: 10/10