[CD Review] Apocalypse Orchestra - The End is Nigh
How often do you experience that you listen to a song by a band you haven't heard of before and you immediately know you'll like the whole album it's from? Let's be real, it doesn't happen too often. Apocalypse Orchestra was one of those bands for me when YouTube suggested their video to The Garden of Earthly Delights. This song is also the first song on their album The End is Nigh, which in my opinion is absolutely perfect because this song shows one really easily what this band is about. To describe it for people who haven't listened to any of their songs or can't really imagine anything by the description "Medieval Doom Metal": They sound a bit as if the dwarfs from The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey formed a metal band. Even though most sites refer to them as a doom/folk/medieval metal band (which in my opinion is very accurate) they do have a slight symphonic sound in some of their songs in my opinion. Mostly because of the choir performing....