Track Listing

1. Razorbliss
2. Believe
3. Virago
4. Undying
5. Radium Angel
6. Firedream
7. Ballad of a Lonely God
8. Snakes of Grey
9. Mine Is the Ocean
10. Maladine
11. Unspoken
12. Pitch Black Water

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #243321 in Music
• Released on: 2005-07-12
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Paradise Lost meets Lacuna Coil!
I thought I would simply 'lift' my review of this album that I posted last year on the U.K. site, to hopefully get this excellent band some notice - so here goes: Well, since this album isn't (so far) being released in the States, I have to travel across oceans just to praise it! I LOVE THIS BAND! When it comes to "gothic metal", I don't think they can be beat. Everything I love about bands like Paradise Lost, Lacuna Coil and Tiamat are all found in Flowing Tears. Dark melodies, mixed with crunching riffs and flavorful, understated keyboard textures - it's all here. The band had one of my favorite singers, too - Stephanie Duchene, who left the band last year, possessed a deep, smoky baritone that fit the dark gothic metal of earlier albums like Jade and Serpentine perfectly. I was dismayed to learn she had left, because I figured that would be the end of that particular era of the bands' sound - I feared that whoever they got, they would simply turn into a Lacuna Coil clone, but I was wrong! New singer Helen Vogt is a vocal dead ringer for Stephanie (and HOT, too - check out their website for proof!!), possessing the same deep voice, with occasionally even a little more bite, and fits the new, harder edge of this album's songs just right! Once again, this band accomplishes what so many similar groups cannot - write songs that are catchy, heavy and inventive, all within the space of 4 minutes. Really, these guys should be where Lacuna, The Gathering and (especially!) Evanescence are today. Maybe my review from here in the States will help just a little!

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So I am a huge Lacuna Coil fan. I happen upon an article that says "Lacuna Coil can ride the throne now, but when Razorbliss arrives, Flowing Tears will overtake the throne of goth metal", so naturally I buy the CD ond give it a whirl. Now, while the CD is good, I think that after about song 6 or so, the CD just gets boring. Most of the songs sound too similar, and Helen Vogt's vocals all sound the same and she never gets a chance to show off any vocal range. I do enjoy the first 5 songs, however, and hope to get into the last half of the record.
However, I don't think Razorbliss can touch either of Lacuna Coil's last two releases, "Comalies" or "Unleashed Memories", both of which are far superior in my opinion.
Razorbliss is a good disc to listen to, but just don't expect to be blown away. Give Lacuna Coil a try to be blown away.

Flowing Tears
Members
Helen Vogt
Benjamin Buss
David Vogt
Stefen Gemballa

Their original band's name was Flowing Tears & Withered Flowers, which they used on their first two full-length releases.
Virago and Undying are my favorite songs on "Razorbliss". This is a very unique album because singer Helen Vogt sings in a deep, almost vampire like manner. "Ballad of a Lonely God" is a haunting song in which Helen's lead and background vocals a very deep.

She does not use any high opera-style vocals on this album.
I give her credit for taking a different approach to singing Gothic music.

This is a five star album-