neNasty - "Когда уходят тени" [2006]

Artist: neNasty

Title: Когда уходят тени

Genre: Industrial Death/Doom Metal

Country: Russia

Release date: 2006

Track List:

1. Холод (intro)
2. Тишина
3. Легенда осени
4. Воспарив
5. В морозную ночь
6. Не жалея об ошибках
7. Куда уходят тени
8. Не видишь
9. Призрачная грусть

Since it's 8th of March, I'm going to post something with female vocals as usual, and this time it's going to be one of the early projects by Senmuth, started in 2003 as a collaboration with the vocalist Anastasia Turenkova. Like in case with many other Senmuth's side projects, they never saw each other in person, yet they managed to record two full-length albums over the Internet during 2003-2007. Here's the second (and unfortunately the last) one, which is significanly better produced than their debut.

Musically, it's quite similar to the "metal" part of Senmuth's solo discography, being death-doom metal with lots of electronic/industrial elements. What, however, makes this album very different is Anastasia's vocal work. Her voice is awesome, even if her singing manner may seem a bit unprofessional at times. The lyrics unfortunately are very stereotypical by today's measure, but still fine for mid-2000s gothic metal. Overall, this album is surely not perfect, yet it's a very interesting artifact of its time which makes me nostalgic of the period when I was listening to a lot of death/doom metal (a largely forgotten genre by now, it was quite big from the mid-90s to the mid-2000s).