The Fourth Seal Of Zeen is the fourth album from The Awakening. Like on previous albums you can hear songs composed, created and produced by Ashton Nyte who's the sole member of this gothic rock band. While bands like Saviour Machine and Virgin Black are closely related to metal, The Awakening is closer to the origin of gothic rock music. The songs are a mixture of dark keyboards, some piano, and rhythm guitars. The singing of Ashton is often low and deep and reminds a bit of Peter Steele (Type O Negative). But The Awakening is not as hard as aforementioned bands. You could call this music depressive mood rock as that describes what it essentially is. Not that the lyrics are depressing but there's definitely a touch of loneliness, as well as other kinds of moods. It's dark music with dark, poetic lyrics and a dark booklet full of moody photographs. Isn't that the essence of gothic rock? Fact is that this album is interesting to check out for the fans of the mellower but darker kind of gothic. When you are in the mood...
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HM Magazine #89Reviewed by Doug Van PeltThis prodigious artist (Ashton Nyte) has released another disc of dark 'n' doomy sounds . . . only this one is brighter lyrically. He even hides a cover of "Amazing Grace" at the end of The Fourth Seal of Zeen. Fans of Type O Negative's gothic, slow 'n' doomy sounds (like me) will salivate all over this double disc. My first exposure to this new disc came at the end of a night where I had the…Similar sounding releases
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