Sleepy Buildings

Continuing on with the Female Fronted Metal thing for one more post. We feature one of the bigger names in the genre and a band that has been featured here and referenced a few times before. I speak of course of The Gathering. A band with a few Live records in their career, I've decided to go with Live album number two. 'Sleepy Buildings - A Semi Acoustic Evening'.

This album is a bit better in terms of material and quality from their first Live album, 'Superheat'. This album is as the title states, a semi acoustic Live gig. Recorded on August 21st and 22nd 2003 at the LUX Theater in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. The album does cover material from the majority of their previous efforts including reworked versions of the tracks, "The Mirror Waters", "Stonegarden" and "Like Fountains". Those tracks of course were originally on the bands first two albums 'Always..' and 'Almost A Dance'. Back when the band was more of a Doom/Death Metal band. Of course the band later found their sound and place on album number three, 'Mandylion'. The band continued to release albums up until this year when it was announced after playing a few reunion show with the older lineups the band would go on a hiatus. After twenty-five years playing The Gathering remains as one of the premier Female Fronted Metal bands with their unique sound. Again this is a band to check out if you're not into Metal.

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