As soon as the play button is pressed, one is welcome to the opening title track, City With No Heart. This track welcomes the listener to the sound of rain, the ringing of church bells, and someone entering a building of some sort. The song then breaks into a sound of epic choir vocal style, one-beat of the drums, before breaking off with some edgy guitar/drum playing and melody/soft sections. While the remainder of the song is finishing off, there is so much darkness and energy within the opening track.
The remaining five tracks give the listener more than just Gothic metal. Still, an emphasis on melancholy and darkness surrounded by a haunting dreamlike atmosphere of great songwriting, concept, and devilmanship while capturing this soul essence of Paradise Lost, Lacuna Coil, The Cure, tint of H.I.M., and many more.
Topped off with extraordinary deliverance (build-up within the songs) of creativity of (also) capturing a clean, crisp sound/production, the dark romanticism of Gothic rock, excellent experience of fantastic stylish (catchy) guitar/chord playing, sorrowful keys/clean riffs and melodic sections, various tempos and darkly moods.
“Music that’s both Beautiful and Haunting” While listening to this album, there are some moments within the songs/music (to me) as this Siouxsie and the Banshees, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath vibe, (especially ‘The Crow’ film feel (rooftop guitar solo scene)) running through the music. This is what gives the album this fruit of art epic atmosphere of gloom and doom, sorrow, romanticism, loneliness, epic and beautiful, well-written album from start to finish.
The album comes to an end with the last song, Falling (Lacuna Coil Cover). Truly captures the essence of the album. The sorrowful and melancholic ending makes it a perfect ending to an emotional and captivating album. We want to give a shoutout to GlobMetal for letting us review Honoris Causa and their album, Reaching For Darkness. Now, we’re going to wrap it up by talking about the final three sins and concluding the review.
