ANATHEMA Resonance CD

Before Anathema became the band that made grown adults weep quietly in car parks, they were doing something wilder, dragging death-doom out of the grave and towards the light, and Resonance catches them mid-transformation.

Released in 2001, this compilation pulls together some of the most emotionally heavy material from the band's early-to-mid period, the stretch where they were still operating in the same grief-soaked air as their Peaceville labelmates but already reaching for something more expansive. It's the sound of a band outgrowing one identity without yet knowing what the next one would cost them. Essential listening for anyone serious about progressive and gothic metal, and a genuine document of where the UK doom scene was heading before it scattered in a dozen directions.

CD compilation. Released 2001. Country of origin: UK. Genre: Progressive/Gothic Metal.

Fans of: Katatonia, My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost, Tiamat, Moonspell.