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Grigori 3: Exile

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Artist: Grigori 3 (@)
Title: Exile
Format: CD
Label: Dark Star Records (@)
Distributor: Dark Starr Records
Rated: * * * * *
Grigori 3's long awaited album came out nationwide on August 8th, 2006 called "Exile" It made it's mark and is quite what it was supposed to live up to! Gwen sings througout this album with beautiul Evanescenceque vocals with latin undetones.

She has a very unique voice that matches the Gothic/Industrial rock heavy guitar and surprize baroque downtime that compliments this album greatly. We open this album with "The System" that is truely a dansefloor hit to start out with. Gwen sings to our doomed planet." There something inside, they us to hide, society's rule they brandish us fool." "Listen to me, heed my please, wer're bleeding from the inside, infecting thoughts to control our minds. Complete control, it's inside you." The machines are taking over and she's pissed! Next we move to "Visions" sung by Gwen and special guest Jewel from the band Deconstruct.


This trio compliment each other singing melancholic and all knowing. Gwen sadly sings to us," With broken arms or broken wings give me the treatment your denying prechorus ( your eyes) I can see it." This song is beutifully orchestrated with melodic keyboards and heavy hard hitting guitar that keeps you moving and feeling the pain she is expressing to us all. Then we have "Awakening" that really sticks out a lot due to pure latin lyrics and talk of the unknown. Gwen sings solmenly to her masses,"Clarity of visions knowing the unknown, awakening in visions a new world will unfold." Rhyming in time and gettting to the point. "Kindred" is next and flows like the blood through our veins. "Abandon all who enter, you will release the hunger."

"Living in the darkness, hiding from the light, you've walked among us for centuries." This track is perfect for a soundtrack to and old German expressionist noir film. "Shadows" is next and keep haunting us with Gwen singing," Shadows of old worlds gone." keeping us entranced and wanting more. We then move on to "Defende" a almost all latin track singing, " Defend us in battle, defend, defend. "Enlighten us here from today, give us the strength, to stand tall, defend us in battle." Beautfiul keyboard antics backing her voice and leading us into armageddon. Another keyboard Baroque masterpiece is "Feast" that reminds me of a classical sonata written for the banquet of the damned. Singing," We feast with a thrist of this we can't deny." "We drink from the vine inside, we feast on your thoughts inside, we drink from the vine, inside we feast on your thoughts inside." Total mind control as you feel Gwen reel you in and take your brain and turn it into mush. Truely hypnotic programming and hard hitting danse beats. "Silently Breeding" is the slowest and most haunting track on the whole album.

It truely reminds me of an alienesque trilogy jumping out to take over your body to harvest it's young, truely horrifying and in your face. If you knew this singer, she literally sings in your face and makes her presence known! This track someday I see being on a soundtrack to one of those extraterresial movies, you watch, someday it will. "Megotholis" is not only a song but it will be a book someday by Ray the guitar player.

This song is like your own Gothic Metropolis coming a world near you. The lyrics are cryptic and are thought provoking. Gwen sings to us once again." Technology rules our fate, laser scorched numbers, grids inside our heads, a matrix encases in chrome, a grid full of numbers, our future plan reminiscing with numbers tattooed to each of our ands." Words to live by and to fear. Look for the book to come out soon to a town near you. You may never be the same. After this one comes " Night Aire", by far one of the most phantom of the operaesque masterpieces to hit this album.

A ode to the night and all creatures that stem from it! Night Aire is one of the most beautiully written tracks on this album, elaborate and bold. Lyrics such as " We bid farewell to power, we hail hello to fear the night air, thickens with lost souls while all survive, we're running and screaming like children playing on a warm midsummers day." Treuly some of the most clever stories of old tradition, an ode to the night and all that desires and worships it. You won't stop dancing throughout this whole album, it was written with blood, sweat and tears and really shines through. The most special. sentimental and last track on this album is "Think me wicked." This track was written by Gwen for me based on myself for always being a nonconformist to our society and always doing things my way, like Frank Sinatra sang about! Gwen sings to me, " I believe in fairytales, enchanted worlds with frost in the air, Gothic gardens castles everywhere, think me wicked you dare compare."

Truely written based on my views on this life and how I conquer it, cease it and make it mine." In a nutshell this album is truely a brilliant masterpiece and I am honoured to share it with you and be a big part of it. We have waitied so long for this to hit and here it is, so let us take your mind and say to you," You will listen!."

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