29 March 2024

The Cascades – Diamonds and Rust

[schema type=”review” name=”The Cascades – Diamonds and Rust” description=”Label: Echozone” author=”Sofie Bergen” pubdate=”2017-11-30″ ]

German band The Cascades has been around since 1988 but regardless this fact they never released an enormous amount of albums. “Diamonds of Rust” comes out now, a double album.

It’s a bit of Gothic, it’s rock, it’s catchy and recognizable. The music of these guys is typically what you hear in Germany. If you follow the scene there, you may not find these guys stray far from that. Which brings the point that it is all quite predictable. Lyrically there is a template. You make a sentence and you repeat it time after time. Not too high level of English must be expected either.
If you look at what it brings besides of that, some Sisters of Mercy perhaps. Something that is not giving it a face of its own either.

It feels a bit sad to say that this album is not much of a winner. One of many, more and more of what you heard before and then to think that it has two discs. We already got a bit bored during the first one. For a band being around this long I expected something more. Not necessarily the originality is the most stinging, but the fact that it never gets a face of its own is most disappointing. A pity.

Line up:
M. W. Wild – Vocals
Morientes daSilva – Guitars
Markus Müller – Keyboards / Programming

1. Wenn der Regen kommt
2. Phase 4 (Demo Version)
3. Handful Of Fear
4. Mercury
5. Babylon
6. Page One
7. Ultrasonic
8. Hexeneinmaleins
9. Sea Of Love
10.Ground Zero
11.Revolution Come
12.Wie auch immer
13.Engelland
14.Everyday
15.Tapping Me (Demo Version)
16.Flowers In Ashes (Demo Version)
17.Underworld (Demo Version)
18.Eye Of Tomorrow
19.Pop Song
20.Fire Is Burning
21.Justice For A While
22.Down
23.Private Salve
24.Follow Me
25.Why Should I Pray
26.Time Train
27.The Spider
28.Standing Out In The Rain

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