1. Arise (intro)
2. Experimenters Farewell
3. Haunted
4. Destiny of Yours
5. Incurable
6. Shadow on my Name
7. Half Alive
8. Liberation
9. Amortization
Jemina
Pitkälä
Lead vocal
Lassi Nuolivaara
Keyboard, background vocal
Jani
Haanpää
Lead guitar, background vocal
Marko Heurlin
Guitar
Jussi Lamminharju
Bass
Timo Fetula
Drums
Memoira
is a female fronted Finnish band playing rather epic melodic &
melancholic metal that has progressive and gothic orchestral parts.
review by
Salvo "Lovedeath" Russo____ 
Sense of melancholy.
Memoira’s
debut album is the first step to a kind of music that mixes gothic metal
and epic rock…
The Finnish band is at his debut album and I admit that there are all requirements to become a good and valid band…but for the future I wish that the band dedicates more time to obtain a better production and a better sound recording. I understand that sometimes it’s not easy but this kind of music needs a “clean” production to be appreciated in a certain way….
In
this album I notice the great sense of melancholy and the sadness played
in good parts that put in evidence Lassi's emotional piano &
keyboard, able to create dramatic parts from which the song develops
itself.
I
don’t like the sound of the guitars that can be improved as well as
the voice that sometimes gets a low volume comparing to the music…
In
general, the songs are agreeable and the band shows a marked attitude to
create good music. If only they would have been improved, for what
the production concerns, I’m sure that this album could have been a
great goth/epic work!
Jemina’s
voice is about perfect even if in my opinion in low tones it can be
improved…but my judgment is conditional on what I said before about
the volume of music compared to the voice…
Thanks
to the perfect mixture of influences, they’re able to create a very
personal style that in my opinion gets inspiration from famous bands
like Nightwish, Epica, Evanescence…Memoira's good work puts in
evidence great sensitiveness and a good work of the rhythmic session,
which is supported by all the members by creating valid songs like
:Haunted that seems to gets
all the elements to become the hit of the album,
Incurable that begins with a great piano-intro, and also shows a
good progressive attitude that is another characteristic of the
band… that gives a great emotional part to the song….Amortization
in which Jemina’s voice touches stars thanks to the great emotional
instrumental part of the song in which Lassi shows his unmistakable
magic spell …
An
album that should have been about perfect with another production…
rating: 7/10
Salvo Russo is editor for gryphonmetal.ch since 2001
He is based in Italy, reachable at this e-mail address nightofdreams@hotmail.it
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