Flowing Tears – Thy Gone Kingdom

Releasedate: 20-10-2008; Label: Ascendance Records;
By: Sabine van Gameren

The German gothic metal band Flowing Tears just released their album “Thy Kingdom Gone”.

The band is founded in 1995 and had several releases since. Since 2004 their current vocalist Helen Vogt joined. The band did tours with bands like Samael, Tiamat, Moonspell and After Forever. As it being announced as their darkest album ever made the album starts of quite light with some piano. The vocals of Helen surprise me; a little flirt with the power metal is there. The gothic comes more up in the third song “Rain of a Thousand Years”. Guitars become dark and melodic as their heaviness is still guaranteed.
The titlesong of the album was one who stands out a lot. It contains guest vocals of Vorph (Samael) and is one of those songs you will always remember of a band. Every band needs such a song. Like Metallica had their “Nothing Else Matters”. For me, this band will go in my memory as the band from “Thy Kingdom Gone”.
Towards the end, the band comes to their highlight when it comes to heaviness and speed, to name the song “For My Enemies” as example.
Production of this album is done very well. You could easily make this album too much pop at the production, but Flowing tears never took that way.

Line Up:
Helen Vogt – Vocals
Benjamin Buss – Guitar
David Vogt – Bass
Stefan Gemballa – Drums

Links:
Flowing Tears MySpace
Flowing Tears Official