Angtoria - God Has a Plan for Us All
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Track List: God Has a Plan for Us All
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- The Awakening
- I'm Calling
- God Has A Plan For Us All
- Suicide On My Mind
- Deity Of Disgust
- The Addiction
- Six Feet Under's Not Deep Enough
- Do You See Me Now
- Original Sin (The Devil's Waiting In The Wing)
- Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woman Scorned
- Confide In Me
- That's What The Wise Lady Said
Album Details: God Has a Plan for Us All
- Release Date:
- 10/17/2006
- Label:
- Listenable Records
- UPC:
- 850391999724
Pro Reviews: God Has a Plan for Us All
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews European heavy metal musicians have long flirted with classical music in their songwriting, but the daunting scale at which AngloSwedish project Angtoria aspire to merge the two forms is something altogether more recent, ambitious, and unusual in its success rate. In the year 2006, at least, unquestionable triumphs in this arena can probably still be counted on one's hands, and include acclaimed efforts by Italy's Rhapsody (particularly 1999's Symphony of Enchanted Lands), Holland's After Forever (see 2003's Decipher), and Norway's Dimmu Borgir (whose stunning collaboration with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra on their Death Cult Armageddon opus may represent an alltime benchmark), but perhaps its time to add Angtoria's 2006 debut, God Has a Plan for Us All, to this exclusive club. Like all of the above, this album's twelve tracks generally observe traditional rock structures, concise song lengths, and immediate pop hooks, while simultaneously providing a seamless integration with layer upon layer of symphonic string arrangements, choral sections, and the like. Also of great interest, is the distinctly restrained performance of frontwoman Sarah Jezebel Deva, who continually contradicts the lat part of her name by fulfilling each song's exact vocal needs in terms of both technique and emotion, yet never resorting to the sort of operatic showboating typical of her truly diva peers a discipline likely learned during years of backup singing with extreme metal bands (Cradle of Filth, Mortiis, Therion, etc.). Add to that a body of lyrics that's consistently both provocative and thought provoking (for example, the album's seemingly religious message is instantly demolished by the title track's explicit allusions to godly rape), plus the gumption to throw in a straightfaced cover of Kylie Minogue's "Confide in Me," and one has a recipe for controversy, as well as finesse how metal - Eduardo Rivadavia, All Music Guide |
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Angtoria is a heavy metal band that was originally conceived as a purely orchestral project by Swedish multiinstrumentalist and composer Chris Rehn and English vocalist Sarah Jezebel Deva (a.k.a. Sarah Jane Ferridge), whose extensive resume already i...Full Angtoria Biography
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