I was 15 years old. My grandmother Gave me 600 belgian franks to spend on the yearly town fair. I went to the future sound, a renomated cd store in Izegem, Lieven the boss pitched Velvet darkness they fear. I had to check it there on the cd players with a headphone. Yes boys and girls and woke things, you had to listen a few minutes and buy it. I bought this album. Best money ever spend. It would have been lost in the fair in a few minutes. Now i still enjoy my money! Ive been a metalhead for 30 years now. This album is one of the most important in my life. I have played it during mourning, drunk bbqs, orgasms, boring car rides, in the sauna.... This is great music. Cherish it. And Liv Kristine, as A teenager i dreamed about communicating with you! "please drop me a message!!
@@choubala dude ! I bought this cassette back in the nineties - I will never forget endless hours on a bus to and back from school (Wroclaw - Poland) with my walkman grinding this album back and forth. Today I am 42 and I remember every note on this album, .... it reminds me of my girlfriend, my first dog, my first concerts and the whole naive times ... best of luck! There is still more of us!
When people hear this growls they say how can you listen to such a music? They will never understand how dark and deep this tones are and what a medicine for a wounded soul they are. This album is one of the darkest metal albums ive ever heard. The perfection of Doom/Gothic metal.
0:00 Velvet Darkness They Fear 1:04 Fair and 'Guiling Copesmate Death 8:11 Bring Forth Ye Shadow 15:02 Seraphic Deviltry 20:20 And When He Falleth 27:29 Der Tanz der Schatten 33:00 Black as the Devil Painteth 38:26 On Whom the Moon Doth Shine 44:42 The Masquerader and Phoenix --- Bonus Tracks --- 52:18 Der Tanz der Schatten [Demo] 58:25 Black as the Devil Painteth [Demo] 1:04:20 And When He Falleth [Demo]
Some rare albums are the soundtrack to a period of your life, how you define specific emotions, perceptions, visual landscapes. You will love them even when your taste inevitably drifts towards other subgenres... Once in a while you will listen to them and it will generate the same response as when they were your favorite. This is one of them.
It's almost sad and disappointing how the listeners don't give them enough credit for the lyrics, it is absolutely phenomenal!!! Don't get me wrong, this whole album is truly a masterpiece; Vocally and Musically but those poetic gothic lyrics are just otherworldly. . .
Searched for it again after all of these years....I remember listen to this gem back then alone, in a dark room on my discman. Just me, the music and the journey it has taken me on. No distraction or whatsoever. Still beautiful
Gothic metal and black metal are made just for that - listening through headphones in a dark room, with nothing but the music and your emotions at play.
Das Album das ich von allen am meistens Liebe, bin damit aufgewachsen und mittlerweile 37.. The Album i love the most of all, grew up witht it, and im now 37 years old..
Time is runnin'....ich bin jetzt 52 und habe mir das Album damals gekauft, weil mir das Cover so gut gefallen hat. Ich habe mich in dieses Album verliebt und ich liebe es immer noch!!!😇🥰🤩❣❣❣💋💋💋
Those aren't just songs, those are entire compositions and suites. Truly beautiful music and really, gothic. Such a pity there aren't bands like this anymore, that make real music like this. This album, also Aegis and Therion's Vovin are absolute classics and masterpieces. You can tell - just by how timeless they are - whether you listen to it in 1999, 2009 or 2019.. incredible. I'm sure Ill still be listening to these in 2029 too! ❤️
True gothic metal (as epitomised in this album) was a fleeting genre. This and other bands like Tristania, The Gathering, or Paradise Lost went on to some experimental, progressive rock. I miss those good old days when heavy rock/metal was mixed with doomy, atmospheric vibes. th-cam.com/video/1HUMwinV2AQ/w-d-xo.html
I agree with you 100%. When I found this album back then somehow around 2000-2001 ... I got Velvet, Vovin and the first album form Haggard - And thou shall trust the seer... those albums entirely changed my musical world. Basiclly I listen them till now and I always will be. Those three bands + Type O Negative is the best what my ears could ever get to listen!
I'm so glad to see so many people still appreciate it. I guess those who can't, and younger generations, simply have an entirely new, maybe even sorta "mutated" idea and expectation of the nowadays' genre, and I think we all have one more important factor- we have profound, deep and really prescious memories with these musics and bands. Somehow it plays a big additional part there on a personal level, we associate it wholesomely with childhood, mid or late teens.. And they dont have that. Back in those days, things were much more, like, real. Getting a tape was a whole holiday. Meet with friends, like, physically, with long bubbly chat and meetup arrangements on the good ol' phone, go to the shop together, etc. It wasnt just everything in your phone and internet lol. As someone who ever since barely a toddler was raised with Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Whitesnake, Dio, Rainbow, Ingwie Malmsteen, Siouxsie and the Banshees, David Bowie and such on my mom's side and Janis Joplin, Flitwood Mac, Jefferson Airplane and Jethro Tull on my dad's, getting into bands like ToT and Therion was a fully natural development for me and it felt so right and prescious. I really think in another, say, 50 or 80 years, this "golden age" of gothic rock should start to lean to the classic music category and be legit studied or something. The test of time is probably one of the most trustworthy criteria for quality. And ToT are among those that pass it with flying banners. 🖤
@@taira_2032 Absolutely! You're right. I had very similar growing up. Just with a little difference that I was raised up on popular music from 80s, with bands like a Queen, Rolling Stones or even Beatles. Later on I switched to Nirvana and Metallica of course. And then I got 3 mentioned bands (ToT, Therion and Haggard) that changed my life forever - all of them on 1000x replayed unoriginal cassetes, where you could really heard a bad sound quality already and some songs were unfinished because of lack of tape. It was incomparable with a nowadays standards but I really didn't care. I felt like blessed. Like an whole heaven came to me. After that I discovered whole doom/black/death metal universe and I love it so much till now. And as you said, We lived in present time. No internet, no FB, social medias... We were groups of people, friends, music fanatics who spend time together, kept talking a lot, went to concerts... It was nice times. Now there is still a lot of young people who found their path to metal music. But they have a different sources. There is practicly everything on internet so they rarely listen whole albums. They keep downloading their favorite songs from sites like a spotify and listen singels from the favorite lists. But at least they love METAL and it's worth it! I must say the golden time for this kind of music was in the 90s. You can really feel it live performances from that time. That´s why I am ironicly very thankful for youtube because I can find almost everything there and at least enjoy that atmosphere a bit.
I'm just relaxing of the music that influence me of negative thoughts but now that I'm a Father I have to prepare for the evil things in this world to protect of any circumstances to my children and I hope for you Amen.
@@marcoac3827 stop labeling. it kills the magic. it's still just plain heavy metal. whatever. it evolves. gothic is just a specifier. and his comment is in english, why do you speak spanish, not everybody here speaks spanish and the band is not even from spain lol
wkskfk this band is known all over the planet ... you can find comments in all languages ... gothic metal is very different from heavy metal ... it is melancholic and creates atmospheres ... heavy metal has no attitude .. they are just drunks making noise .. they have never had talent .... greetings friend.
@@marcoac9459 I know the difference, I know this is gothic metal. Gothic metal is a specifier, it's still heavy metal, it belongs to the "metal" genre, as a subcategory. I know you can speak in any language you like, but you answered to an english comment in spanish... which makes not much sense. but you do you.
Yo no puedo creer que hace veinte años yo todavía estaba escuchando Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Bush, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Staind y bandas por el estilo...No tenía ni idea que existía esta clase de música..o una banda como Theater Of Tragedy... 😲
YOU'RE ONE OF THE GRATEST RECORD LABELS EVER!! And I'm so gratefull that you share this increíble album.. i bougth it in 98 to be honest, after one off my best friends show it to me..... unvelieveble from the very portrait... since that day I haven't stopped to hear it at least every month... SINCE NOW!!!! I LOVE THEM I I LOVE MASSACRE RECORDS SINCE THEN AND TILL NOW!!! THANK Y'ALL FCKRS!!! YOU'RE ALL HAVE BEEN GREAT THRU ALL THIS YEARS!!! THANK YOU ALL SO FCKNG MUCH!! REALLY!!!!
This algum marks me. I listen it 20 years a go, by a friend who gives me a music tape of it, an amateur copy. It was before I became a Latino Brazilian punk guy who wats to breaks the system. Even 20 yeas had passed, I remember every song of that music tape. F***k good music.
Bought this when it was new in 1996 and then Aegis in 1998. There was a TofT in 1994, but this was the best. Aegis was a bit more pop, and good too, but this one was their masterpiece! Very dark, yet pleasantly melodic!
Miałem ten album na kasecie magnetofonowej. Poprzedni też. Zajechałem je na śmierć. Na szczęście teraz mamy youtube. Pozdro, młody :-D jestem 6 lat starszy :-):-)
I don't think I've ever listened to an album more times than I have listened to this one, the weird part is that I am not into gothic metal, I listen to thrash, death, heavy and a bit of black, yet this one is definitively in my top 5 favorite albums
@@NatteRoll there's too much doom metal lately, but I need only My Dying Bride- so many albums and all more or less great! No one comes close to them, and with Evinta... I'm speechless!!!
I'm a Christian Bro. Is just this album has something that you have to catch before it get of hold of yourself. The Devil have a precious beautiful things in our human minds to be with him to have negative thoughts of life but the LOVE of Christ Jesus He will save of us all and that my Brother or Sister will save us ALL Amen.
What a master piece! One of the best gothic album ever made. I love this mix of growl and soft soprano voice. It's romantic and dark at this same time. One of my favourite s album.
Wow just discovering this band and it’s completely amazing! The medieval themes mixed in with the grinding metal and the combined female and male vocals is all so overwhelmingly beautiful!
Best album ever! My favorite album from my favorite band. Every song in this is perfect. The beautiful voice of Liv, the growls of Raymond, the wonderful lyrics, and the excellent music. I've been listening to it for years and I have never gotten tired of it.
“Fair & Guiling Copesmate Death” and “And When He Fallest” were always the songs on here that blew my mind the most, but this ENTIRE album is a genius work of art that has more than withstood the test of time. I will never stop loving this album or this band.
24 años sin escuchar este disco …cuantos recuerdos de la infancia con esta obra maestra que llegó a la manos de un amigo en un cd original que - si mi memoria no me falla- compró en la tienda de oñoro en bogota
My big brother gave me this when I was 11 or something. Back in the 90's I remember Listening to the album and reading the lyrics at the same time. I still remember how i saw stories form in my mind. This is still a great album and quite timeless.
Thank you Massacre Records for this incredible piece of greatness that is like no other! So dark...so beautiful like a beautiful monster I will always come back to see, listen and feel its obscurity and wonder
как же здорово, что мне в подростковом возрасте под руку попались именно такие группы, как ТОТ!:) сейчас мне 36, а старые альбомы переслушиваю иногда с удовольствием. где мои 17 лет...
Undoubteadly one of the best gothic metal albums worlwide by one of the best gothic metal bands ever.... Still listening to this wonderful gothic metal masterpiece... Greetings from Loja, Ecuador..
Icon of doom gothic. The compositions, lyrics, sound, and atmosphere... golden 90s... a truly impressive gem. When I got it in 2000... together with Therion-Vovin and Haggard-And thou shalt trust the seer... it definitely changed my life forever.
Одна из лучших групп всех времен в своем жанре. Этот альбом как маленькая жизнь. Каждый раз слушая погружаешься в другой мир. Удивительно, что через 20 лет меня также сильно трогает эта запись за душу. Шедевры не умирают. Навсегда в сердце.
согласен помню в детстве была игра на диске там эта музыка играла я даже не знал в в то время про эту группу но очень нравилась гонять по криминальному городу
@@sabirzaripov3380 в игре Погоня в Манхеттене есть треки Театра, правда не этого альбома...точно знаю, что там есть City Of Light, возможно, что Hide And Seek и ещё несколько.
This is an absolute masterpiece...I discovered this band and tristania the same day.i was at METAL HAVEN RECORDS IN CHICAGO mark the owner was a good friend of mine and had everything metal you could think of and I purchased this and tristania got home and drank a fifth of booze and put these albums on and was blown away at how dark and dreary and majestic this was !!!! I'd listened to stuff like my dying Bride ,morgion ,paradise lost , opeth, candle mass, solitude ateurnis as far as the more atmospheric doomy stuff but this was more poetic more gothic and just soaked with blood ❤!!!! So I highly recommend getting this as well as their live videos from like twenty years ago or so they're great live 😝🎸🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟
pure gold is an understatement, confirmed. Was there when it came, decades ago, and against the test of time? Still pure art in upheaval. I enjoy this, hope you do , too..
I remember buying Aegis on CD back in '98. A total masterpiece. I got Velvet a few weeks later. Another masterpiece. All of ToT's releases were killer - even Liv's latest ones w/ the band.
1 από τα ίδια φίλε + κλασικό/power metal! Δεν ήμουν fan των άλλων “Beauty & the Beast” copy-paste συγκροτημάτων αλλά οι Theater of Tragedy απλά μεγαλούργησαν στα 90s! Επί πλέον ήταν το 1ο μου cd trading με 1 κορίτσι που μετά (στα τέλη του λυκείου) έγινε το κορίτσι μου! ....Αναμνήσεις!
Das ist ein Album für die Götter🙂. Erinnerungen an eine wunderschöne Zeit kommen da hoch- ich vermisse die alte Zeit so wahnsinnig, das ich mir nach 20 Jahren die alten Klassiker wieder anhöre. Ich hab solche Sehnsucht nach leben- was geschieht nur gerade auf der Welt? Oder in Europa? Musik ist die Energie, die mich trägt- Danke🙂ich vermisse die Freiheit! Ich vermisse gute Gesellschaft und Musik und....
Theatre of tragedy se ha consagrado como banda culto del doom o gothic metal y ha sido el referente para que bandas como Tristania, Nightwish y WT aparezcan en escena. Sin duda TOT dejó un excelente legado en la musica.
The Title of the album describes exactly what I expire in this moment. I dress in black velvet and the people fear me.. but why ?? They have fear from their own depts. Life is not always happy beppy. That's why I love my deepground melancholic Aspekt.. and this music. I listen theatre of tragedy since I am 16 and I love them . They lead me on my depts and healed my heart.. the most people do not understand this... because they never experienced deep pain and darkness within their selves... Thank you theatre of tragedy for leading me Soo long through me dark passions so I see the light. And darkness. Both is one..
This album is an absolute masterpiece. I can’t stop listening to it over and over again. I am so happy. I discovered this album. It is one of the greatest albums ever made, and I am happy that I know that.
lucky you, I was the heavy dude wearing black in high-school, all the girls were afraid of me, neighbors were sure I was taking drugs and I would end up badly. I'm an engineer now (not my neighbors' sons and daughters)
@@b-rg7516 I was, and still am, the heavy metal guy dressing in black, all my girlfriends have been goth. Same as you, all my neighboors thought of me as a deranged drug addict and thug. I had my business until Captain Quarantine wiped it out. Life has been great, ain't it?
Modern gothic metal bands like Epica, Within Temptation, Nightwish sound way too cheesy for me. This is way better and captures that dark atmosphere I'm looking for.
The Italian band Macbeth comes close when it comes to the Beauty and the Beast singing style. I think you will find inspiration from their debut album and following with their 2nd and 3rd.
ein bis dato unerreichts Meisterwerk, das seines gleichen sucht, ohne Worte einfach mega, die mischung aus einer Engelsstimme und so einer tiefen Stimme i love this
un disco bellisimo en acompañamiento con tillo wolf y escuchar a liv en esos años de adolescencia fue lo mejor ue me pudo pasar, este disco lo mande a traer a holanda ya que en guatemala no habian disponibles.
This should be in all karaoke sets! Lol Cheeres to Theatre of Tragedy! a classic and never forgotten band This album is like a drug to me and it feels so good! A truly wonderful album that makes the mesmerizing darkness so much fun! THANK YOU!!!!!!🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘!!!!!!
Who's still listening ? You are brilliant...
always xD
2024 🤘😁🇳🇴
I was 15 years old. My grandmother
Gave me 600 belgian franks to spend on the yearly town fair. I went to the future sound, a renomated cd store in Izegem, Lieven the boss pitched Velvet darkness they fear. I had to check it there on the cd players with a headphone. Yes boys and girls and woke things, you had to listen a few minutes and buy it. I bought this album. Best money ever spend. It would have been lost in the fair in a few minutes. Now i still enjoy my money! Ive been a metalhead for 30 years now. This album is one of the most important in my life. I have played it during mourning, drunk bbqs, orgasms, boring car rides, in the sauna.... This is great music. Cherish it. And Liv Kristine, as A teenager i dreamed about communicating with you! "please drop me a message!!
in canada we never even had listening stations you had to trust the band or label was good
Лучшая история здесь, бабушке уважение!
I've been listening to it for about 25 years
In a hundred years, if we are still here, that album will be taught in music classes. Over 20 years and im still listening to this.
It’s nice to hear there’s another fellow human that gets this music to make such a comment. No one I know appreciates this band/album
Same feeling here. This album still pierce through the years.
Bom demais... Very Good
@@choubala dude ! I bought this cassette back in the nineties - I will never forget endless hours on a bus to and back from school (Wroclaw - Poland) with my walkman grinding this album back and forth. Today I am 42 and I remember every note on this album, .... it reminds me of my girlfriend, my first dog, my first concerts and the whole naive times ... best of luck! There is still more of us!
Same here, almost 25 years and still loving it. Bought the CD in 1996.
The epitome of gothic metal. Dark, beautiful, poetic, with Shakespearean lyrics and beauty-and-the-beast vocals.
I agree, their first few albums are beyond amazing. One of the first I'm aware of in this genre and by far the best
Amak amak bersyukur kerana anda kalian membantu daku dalam apa jua semoga kalian dapat maafkan yang lebih baik dari daku yang sekarang ni........
@@tengkufarid2947 Quixeramobim quixadá goierê, Ubá. Xânxere chapecó!
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For some reason youtube algorithm deemed my ears worthy to recommend this to me. I am grateful to the youtube algorithm.
Had this on original tape as a kid. Love this album forever.
When people hear this growls they say how can you listen to such a music? They will never understand how dark and deep this tones are and what a medicine for a wounded soul they are. This album is one of the darkest metal albums ive ever heard. The perfection of Doom/Gothic metal.
Totally agree
A medicine for wounded souls indeed my friend!
0:00 Velvet Darkness They Fear
1:04 Fair and 'Guiling Copesmate Death
8:11 Bring Forth Ye Shadow
15:02 Seraphic Deviltry
20:20 And When He Falleth
27:29 Der Tanz der Schatten
33:00 Black as the Devil Painteth
38:26 On Whom the Moon Doth Shine
44:42 The Masquerader and Phoenix
--- Bonus Tracks ---
52:18 Der Tanz der Schatten [Demo]
58:25 Black as the Devil Painteth [Demo]
1:04:20 And When He Falleth [Demo]
Thank you! >^.^
Thanks for taking the time to share this with all the viewers. Some channels are too lazy to spend the time to do this.
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Some rare albums are the soundtrack to a period of your life, how you define specific emotions, perceptions, visual landscapes. You will love them even when your taste inevitably drifts towards other subgenres... Once in a while you will listen to them and it will generate the same response as when they were your favorite. This is one of them.
Totally agree
A fuckin' men
I still recall Quake 3 Arena battles I fought with this beautiful soundtrack. Visual style of some of the maps adds some to the gothic atmosphere)
Same for me, as for Alternative 4 from Anathema
What other subgenres do you you to like now m
I listen to this album since 1997. Absolute masterclass!
@Michel Me too! Love it so much!
I'm still in love with Liv Kristine's voice. So beautiful...
I love liv kristin and also ville valo of him their voice are the best
@@ProjectAoki yes a duet with them would be great
Still? I'm not. But back here in the 90s, yes!
It's almost sad and disappointing how the listeners don't give them enough credit for the lyrics, it is absolutely phenomenal!!!
Don't get me wrong, this whole album is truly a masterpiece; Vocally and Musically but those poetic gothic lyrics are just otherworldly. . .
i have the casste tape this album.. and i have the lyric. hehe..
search on dark lyric bro...
this is one of the most beautiful album covers i've ever seen
One of? There's none better! 🖤🌹
this album is a life saver
Searched for it again after all of these years....I remember listen to this gem back then alone, in a dark room on my discman. Just me, the music and the journey it has taken me on. No distraction or whatsoever. Still beautiful
Gothic metal and black metal are made just for that - listening through headphones in a dark room, with nothing but the music and your emotions at play.
the 90's and early 2000's was when some of the best metal bands and albums in history was released, prove me wrong.
80s were better👍
Draconian's Sovran and Under a Godless Veil say hello from 2010s
Das Album das ich von allen am meistens Liebe, bin damit aufgewachsen und mittlerweile 37..
The Album i love the most of all, grew up witht it, and im now 37 years old..
Joah Willkommen im jahr 2020... Die Zeit vergeht einfach zu schnell..
Time is runnin'....ich bin jetzt 52 und habe mir das Album damals gekauft, weil mir das Cover so gut gefallen hat. Ich habe mich in dieses Album verliebt und ich liebe es immer noch!!!😇🥰🤩❣❣❣💋💋💋
the voice of Liv Kristine is unreal. beautiful!
Those aren't just songs, those are entire compositions and suites. Truly beautiful music and really, gothic. Such a pity there aren't bands like this anymore, that make real music like this. This album, also Aegis and Therion's Vovin are absolute classics and masterpieces. You can tell - just by how timeless they are - whether you listen to it in 1999, 2009 or 2019.. incredible. I'm sure Ill still be listening to these in 2029 too! ❤️
True gothic metal (as epitomised in this album) was a fleeting genre. This and other bands like Tristania, The Gathering, or Paradise Lost went on to some experimental, progressive rock. I miss those good old days when heavy rock/metal was mixed with doomy, atmospheric vibes. th-cam.com/video/1HUMwinV2AQ/w-d-xo.html
I will still listen to it when im Six Feet Under
I agree with you 100%. When I found this album back then somehow around 2000-2001 ... I got Velvet, Vovin and the first album form Haggard - And thou shall trust the seer... those albums entirely changed my musical world. Basiclly I listen them till now and I always will be. Those three bands + Type O Negative is the best what my ears could ever get to listen!
I'm so glad to see so many people still appreciate it. I guess those who can't, and younger generations, simply have an entirely new, maybe even sorta "mutated" idea and expectation of the nowadays' genre, and I think we all have one more important factor- we have profound, deep and really prescious memories with these musics and bands. Somehow it plays a big additional part there on a personal level, we associate it wholesomely with childhood, mid or late teens.. And they dont have that. Back in those days, things were much more, like, real. Getting a tape was a whole holiday. Meet with friends, like, physically, with long bubbly chat and meetup arrangements on the good ol' phone, go to the shop together, etc. It wasnt just everything in your phone and internet lol. As someone who ever since barely a toddler was raised with Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Whitesnake, Dio, Rainbow, Ingwie Malmsteen, Siouxsie and the Banshees, David Bowie and such on my mom's side and Janis Joplin, Flitwood Mac, Jefferson Airplane and Jethro Tull on my dad's, getting into bands like ToT and Therion was a fully natural development for me and it felt so right and prescious. I really think in another, say, 50 or 80 years, this "golden age" of gothic rock should start to lean to the classic music category and be legit studied or something. The test of time is probably one of the most trustworthy criteria for quality. And ToT are among those that pass it with flying banners. 🖤
@@taira_2032 Absolutely! You're right. I had very similar growing up. Just with a little difference that I was raised up on popular music from 80s, with bands like a Queen, Rolling Stones or even Beatles. Later on I switched to Nirvana and Metallica of course. And then I got 3 mentioned bands (ToT, Therion and Haggard) that changed my life forever - all of them on 1000x replayed unoriginal cassetes, where you could really heard a bad sound quality already and some songs were unfinished because of lack of tape. It was incomparable with a nowadays standards but I really didn't care. I felt like blessed. Like an whole heaven came to me. After that I discovered whole doom/black/death metal universe and I love it so much till now. And as you said, We lived in present time. No internet, no FB, social medias... We were groups of people, friends, music fanatics who spend time together, kept talking a lot, went to concerts... It was nice times. Now there is still a lot of young people who found their path to metal music. But they have a different sources. There is practicly everything on internet so they rarely listen whole albums. They keep downloading their favorite songs from sites like a spotify and listen singels from the favorite lists. But at least they love METAL and it's worth it! I must say the golden time for this kind of music was in the 90s. You can really feel it live performances from that time. That´s why I am ironicly very thankful for youtube because I can find almost everything there and at least enjoy that atmosphere a bit.
I'm just relaxing of the music that influence me of negative thoughts but now that I'm a Father I have to prepare for the evil things in this world to protect of any circumstances to my children and I hope for you Amen.
The combination of Liv's voice with Vincent Price dialogue is magnificent!!!
This is the first time I heard this band and it's 2022 what a kick ass album!!
Well..u missed the 90s underground's atmosphere
Glad you found them
Try siren song too
Heavy Metal therapy for me. I made it through life thanks to this album.
Esto no es vulgar heavy metal como judas priest, iron maiden, etc...esto es metal gotico..!!!...verdadero talento...!!
@@marcoac3827 stop labeling. it kills the magic. it's still just plain heavy metal. whatever. it evolves. gothic is just a specifier. and his comment is in english, why do you speak spanish, not everybody here speaks spanish and the band is not even from spain lol
wkskfk this band is known all over the planet ... you can find comments in all languages ... gothic metal is very different from heavy metal ... it is melancholic and creates atmospheres ... heavy metal has no attitude .. they are just drunks making noise .. they have never had talent .... greetings friend.
@@marcoac9459 I know the difference, I know this is gothic metal. Gothic metal is a specifier, it's still heavy metal, it belongs to the "metal" genre, as a subcategory. I know you can speak in any language you like, but you answered to an english comment in spanish... which makes not much sense. but you do you.
I was in a band, we used to play On whom the moon doth shine and Der tanz der schatten, salutes from Pereira, Colombia
Yo no puedo creer que hace veinte años yo todavía estaba escuchando Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Bush, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Staind y bandas por el estilo...No tenía ni idea que existía esta clase de música..o una banda como Theater Of Tragedy... 😲
Por mucho que ame Aegis, hay que reconocer que este es el mejor álbum de la banda. Excelente de principio a fin.
Aegis fue el principio del fin TOG cuando empezó a meter Raymond sus gustos por la música electrónica
!¡
Los amo...... Aunque me doblen la edad..
Este es uno de los mejores albunes del gothic metal, sino es el mejor. es un trabajo excelente y no me canso de escucharlo.
Me too ❤️
Una obra maestra
De mis favoritos, de toda la vida, ese tiempo salieron excelentes albunes, q nostalgia ✊😌
Para mí hay dos trabajos que están en el pedestal osea en la cima , el VELVET DARKNESS THEY FEAR y el WIDOWS WEED de TRISTANIA
Viajo en el tiempo y vuelvo a mí adolescencia 16 años ufffff, lo mejores días!!!!
The hallmark Gothic album, incredible masterpiece.
My favorite album forever and ever 💜
mine too, absolutely brilliant.
The best one for me too.
I prefer Aegis
Another vote for Aegis. As much love and nostalgia I have for ToT, none of their material is anywhere near my top picks.
One of them... I miss that years
YOU'RE ONE OF THE GRATEST RECORD LABELS EVER!! And I'm so gratefull that you share this increíble album.. i bougth it in 98 to be honest, after one off my best friends show it to me..... unvelieveble from the very portrait... since that day I haven't stopped to hear it at least every month... SINCE NOW!!!! I LOVE THEM I I LOVE MASSACRE RECORDS SINCE THEN AND TILL NOW!!! THANK Y'ALL FCKRS!!! YOU'RE ALL HAVE BEEN GREAT THRU ALL THIS YEARS!!! THANK YOU ALL SO FCKNG MUCH!! REALLY!!!!
This algum marks me. I listen it 20 years a go, by a friend who gives me a music tape of it, an amateur copy. It was before I became a Latino Brazilian punk guy who wats to breaks the system. Even 20 yeas had passed, I remember every song of that music tape. F***k good music.
Bought this when it was new in 1996 and then Aegis in 1998. There was a TofT in 1994, but this was the best. Aegis was a bit more pop, and good too, but this one was their masterpiece! Very dark, yet pleasantly melodic!
29.10.2019 Muzyka mojej młodości . Teraz mam 41 lat i dalej twierdzę że to zajebisty zespół 👍
Mam 44 a jak wyszła płyta to kasetę prawie zakochałem (sąsiadów chyba też). Wtedy ekstraklasa...
Zajebiście u mnie 40 a i tak do tego wracam :D
Ja 42
Miałem ten album na kasecie magnetofonowej. Poprzedni też. Zajechałem je na śmierć. Na szczęście teraz mamy youtube.
Pozdro, młody :-D jestem 6 lat starszy :-):-)
I mojej młodości także. Chyba żadna kapela nie była przeze mnie tak długo wałkowana jak ta.
Cant find words to describe that album. Just heavenly..
I don't think I've ever listened to an album more times than I have listened to this one, the weird part is that I am not into gothic metal, I listen to thrash, death, heavy and a bit of black, yet this one is definitively in my top 5 favorite albums
If you like doom metal you would like gothic metal!
@@NatteRoll there's too much doom metal lately, but I need only My Dying Bride- so many albums and all more or less great! No one comes close to them, and with Evinta... I'm speechless!!!
@@NatteRoll but vice versa is not that simple!
I'm a Christian Bro. Is just this album has something that you have to catch before it get of hold of yourself. The Devil have a precious beautiful things in our human minds to be with him to have negative thoughts of life but the LOVE of Christ Jesus He will save of us all and that my Brother or Sister will save us ALL Amen.
It's weird that I have hate and Love but at the end I have LOVE.
What a master piece! One of the best gothic album ever made. I love this mix of growl and soft soprano voice. It's romantic and dark at this same time.
One of my favourite
s album.
Wow just discovering this band and it’s completely amazing! The medieval themes mixed in with the grinding metal and the combined female and male vocals is all so overwhelmingly beautiful!
Love this band ..of you love this try some My Dying Bride . \m/ Draconian as well.
@@jasonkucharski7837 Try Mirror Morionis.
Than better don't Listen to what Kind of Music Liv Kristine is singing now....🙈
So welcome to the true world of classic gothic metal :-)
Jason Kucharski how the fuck you gonna compare these guys to my dying bride? Smfh
This album is the first gothic metal i heard and i guess the Gothic metal was made for Theatre of tragedy
Best album ever! My favorite album from my favorite band. Every song in this is perfect. The beautiful voice of Liv, the growls of Raymond, the wonderful lyrics, and the excellent music. I've been listening to it for years and I have never gotten tired of it.
I have been listening to the music of TT since 2000. 20 years have passed, and I continue to listen...
So many memories. In love with this magnificent album
que hermosa eres
Este disco de theare of tragedy y el world of glassess de tristania me hicieron ver más allá...algo mágico!!!!
confirmo
“Fair & Guiling Copesmate Death” and “And When He Fallest” were always the songs on here that blew my mind the most, but this ENTIRE album is a genius work of art that has more than withstood the test of time. I will never stop loving this album or this band.
ХХХХ х
You are absolutely right...🤟
Nightwish brought me here and I thank them for that
The only other band I've ever heard that's given them a run for their money was Tristania.
24:13 - omg the rain of tingles on my back from brain downto floor! such a gold dialog!
Vincent Price i think.
The dialog is taken from "The Masque of the Red Death" movie from 1964. It's my favourite Vincent Price movie. :)
@@angelesalberich thanks my dude!!
24 años sin escuchar este disco …cuantos recuerdos de la infancia con esta obra maestra que llegó a la manos de un amigo en un cd original que - si mi memoria no me falla- compró en la tienda de oñoro en bogota
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My big brother gave me this when I was 11 or something. Back in the 90's I remember Listening to the album and reading the lyrics at the same time. I still remember how i saw stories form in my mind. This is still a great album and quite timeless.
True...
2023 y sigo escuchando esta obra sublime,para mi el mejor de la banda de principio a fin.
Thank you Massacre Records for this incredible piece of greatness that is like no other! So dark...so beautiful like a beautiful monster I will always come back to see, listen and feel its obscurity and wonder
как же здорово, что мне в подростковом возрасте под руку попались именно такие группы, как ТОТ!:) сейчас мне 36, а старые альбомы переслушиваю иногда с удовольствием. где мои 17 лет...
Аналогично:)
Мне было 20 когда вышел этот альбом, дал корешам металистам послушать все стали фанами Doom metall с женским вокалом \m/
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Та же история ;) \m/
От этого альбома я заразился дудом))) 2 недели слушал только эту касету😌
swyqa bwuiat p90 rush b babushka
Undoubteadly one of the best gothic metal albums worlwide by one of the best gothic metal bands ever....
Still listening to this wonderful gothic metal masterpiece...
Greetings from Loja, Ecuador..
A remarkable Masterpiece in Gothic Metal!!!
Icon of doom gothic. The compositions, lyrics, sound, and atmosphere... golden 90s... a truly impressive gem. When I got it in 2000... together with Therion-Vovin and Haggard-And thou shalt trust the seer... it definitely changed my life forever.
I totally agree. This album will be forever an important part of my life...
Hearing this 20 years later is just....awesome....
Одна из лучших групп всех времен в своем жанре.
Этот альбом как маленькая жизнь.
Каждый раз слушая погружаешься в другой мир.
Удивительно, что через 20 лет меня также сильно трогает эта запись за душу.
Шедевры не умирают.
Навсегда в сердце.
солидарен с Вами , послушал спустя лет так 20 ... а все равно как в первый раз !!! КРУТЬ !
согласен помню в детстве была игра на диске там эта музыка играла я даже не знал в в то время про эту группу но очень нравилась гонять по криминальному городу
@@sabirzaripov3380 в игре Погоня в Манхеттене есть треки Театра, правда не этого альбома...точно знаю, что там есть City Of Light, возможно, что Hide And Seek и ещё несколько.
Que gran disco!!! 2022 días lluviosos en Santiago Chile y todavía escuchando este disco, una obra maestra del gothic metal
This is an absolute masterpiece...I discovered this band and tristania the same day.i was at METAL HAVEN RECORDS IN CHICAGO mark the owner was a good friend of mine and had everything metal you could think of and I purchased this and tristania got home and drank a fifth of booze and put these albums on and was blown away at how dark and dreary and majestic this was !!!! I'd listened to stuff like my dying Bride ,morgion ,paradise lost , opeth, candle mass, solitude ateurnis as far as the more atmospheric doomy stuff but this was more poetic more gothic and just soaked with blood ❤!!!! So I highly recommend getting this as well as their live videos from like twenty years ago or so they're great live 😝🎸🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟
pure gold is an understatement, confirmed. Was there when it came, decades ago, and against the test of time? Still pure art in upheaval. I enjoy this, hope you do , too..
huh...never heard of this band before....popped up on recommended........They have a new fan now.....
I remember buying Aegis on CD back in '98. A total masterpiece. I got Velvet a few weeks later. Another masterpiece. All of ToT's releases were killer - even Liv's latest ones w/ the band.
Gran disco, es una belleza melancolía, oscuridad y sinfonía gran obra maestra para disfrutar en la lluvia
at that time, albums like this was the break of constant listening of thrash/death/black metal...hahaha.still beautiful
1 από τα ίδια φίλε + κλασικό/power metal!
Δεν ήμουν fan των άλλων “Beauty & the Beast” copy-paste συγκροτημάτων αλλά οι Theater of Tragedy απλά μεγαλούργησαν στα 90s!
Επί πλέον ήταν το 1ο μου cd trading με 1 κορίτσι που μετά (στα τέλη του λυκείου) έγινε το κορίτσι μου!
....Αναμνήσεις!
Unreal album. Better than it was not played anymore !!!
Das ist ein Album für die Götter🙂. Erinnerungen an eine wunderschöne Zeit kommen da hoch- ich vermisse die alte Zeit so wahnsinnig, das ich mir nach 20 Jahren die alten Klassiker wieder anhöre.
Ich hab solche Sehnsucht nach leben- was geschieht nur gerade auf der Welt? Oder in Europa? Musik ist die Energie, die mich trägt- Danke🙂ich vermisse die Freiheit! Ich vermisse gute Gesellschaft und Musik und....
hell i bought this cd in 2000? i still have the same one and it great condition. amazing album and my favorite by them still.
linda canción
i bought mine in 2002 but lost it yrs ago!
Drugged Clown same here never really got past this
꧁Drugged Clown꧂ also
1994
Sy dr indonesia sy sangat suka ke seluruhan album ni
this I´ve first heard when I was 16 and it had quite an influence on what I enjoy to listen 20 years later. Fuck yeah
outstanding masterpiece !
2023 sigue sonando fresco mejor que muchos discos nuevos
Adelantados a su época por milenios
Nosotros los vampiros un saludo desde Michoacán México y de sinaloa
@@anabellrz8633 pues no me considero vampiro eso seria raro 😄 Saludos
Definitively one of my Top 5 of the CDs I own.
This album is freaking amazing!
Nicolas soy nuevo en el tema, cuales son los otros cuatro álbumes que recomendarías....gracias 🤔
Theatre of tragedy se ha consagrado como banda culto del doom o gothic metal y ha sido el referente para que bandas como Tristania, Nightwish y WT aparezcan en escena. Sin duda TOT dejó un excelente legado en la musica.
LEGADO QUE ESTA MURIENDO
@@roudol99 el legado nunca muere, se oculta en los recuerdos de los q vivimos aquellas glorias, pero como viajero siempre retorna a su hogar.
The Title of the album describes exactly what I expire in this moment. I dress in black velvet and the people fear me.. but why ?? They have fear from their own depts. Life is not always happy beppy. That's why I love my deepground melancholic Aspekt.. and this music. I listen theatre of tragedy since I am 16 and I love them . They lead me on my depts and healed my heart.. the most people do not understand this... because they never experienced deep pain and darkness within their selves... Thank you theatre of tragedy for leading me Soo long through me dark passions so I see the light. And darkness. Both is one..
Amazing. Thank you very much for uploading this.
What a masterpiece, what a voice. Gothic style is always liked in Turkiye. But that album is just WoW
They do not get enough recognition. Some of the most atmospheric metal ever created.
Зачарован этим творением навсегда... Мелодии не выходят из моей головы до сих пор!🎸🔥
25 Лет уже, с собой сужу, и никак не надоедает (42 года) первые и последние етс., !
i love this epic album
True Gothic. I miss old days with bands such as ToT, Tristatania. Days when WT sounds Enter-like. Days when Floor were in AF and made pure beauty...
Listen to Epica - their first album, you may like it
dont forget The Sins of Thy Beloved
Draagnipur un
SIRRAH! They´ve go two outstanding albums as well.
El mejor álbum del Gotic Metal sin dudas una joya inigualable, brutal melancólica, oscuro,negro,
Un des meilleurs je suis d'accord pas le meilleur par contre mais c'est dans le classement des excellents albums du Metal Gothic.
This album is an absolute masterpiece. I can’t stop listening to it over and over again. I am so happy. I discovered this album. It is one of the greatest albums ever made, and I am happy that I know that.
unica e irrepetible obra de arte
I haven't heard this album for ages. It's still great. In my opinion it's a gem 🙂
año 2020...no me canso de escuchar increible banda ...
A friend once very well defined the power of this vocalist's voice, saying that he has thunder inside his throat.
My gothic-style girlfriend and highschool years 💘
@Calamity maybe it was just a phase
lucky bastard
lucky you, I was the heavy dude wearing black in high-school, all the girls were afraid of me, neighbors were sure I was taking drugs and I would end up badly.
I'm an engineer now (not my neighbors' sons and daughters)
@@b-rg7516 I was, and still am, the heavy metal guy dressing in black, all my girlfriends have been goth. Same as you, all my neighboors thought of me as a deranged drug addict and thug. I had my business until Captain Quarantine wiped it out. Life has been great, ain't it?
Este álbum es una chimba, lo escucho desde finales de los 90´s y me sigue sorprendiendo!!
First time listening to this album... wish I did it sooner, this stuff is really good!
DAMN ....I love this album.
Modern gothic metal bands like Epica, Within Temptation, Nightwish sound way too cheesy for me. This is way better and captures that dark atmosphere I'm looking for.
Respectfully, those bands play different kind of music, other styles, still great, but extremely different genders. 🤘🤘🤘Let's headbang!
@@astiliana181 I agree!
The Italian band Macbeth comes close when it comes to the Beauty and the Beast singing style. I think you will find inspiration from their debut album and following with their 2nd and 3rd.
48:28 48:36 49:03
@@metalafrothere's an italian band called dakrua, same vibes!
This album uncovers dark and stunning places of after life. so touching.
2022 e ainda escutando esse disco inteiro
ein bis dato unerreichts Meisterwerk, das seines gleichen sucht, ohne Worte einfach mega, die mischung aus einer Engelsstimme und so einer tiefen Stimme i love this
un disco bellisimo en acompañamiento con tillo wolf y escuchar a liv en esos años de adolescencia fue lo mejor ue me pudo pasar, este disco lo mande a traer a holanda ya que en guatemala no habian disponibles.
Tilo wolf?
Creo que estas seriamente equivocado
Puedes verificarlo fácilmente en San Google ahora que existe en mis tiempos tenías que comprar el disco original para tener esa información
@@anabelvaldez5484 ya te informaste?
I was listening to this 10 years before it came out. I'm very cool!
plz be me my frind on school ...
2020 ... still a masterpiece
Still waiting for someone to take the torch...
Dziękuję mojej nauczycielce polskiego ..za płytę...do dziś w mojej pamięci...
Epic masterpiece..!
This should be in all karaoke sets! Lol Cheeres to Theatre of Tragedy! a classic and never forgotten band This album is like a drug to me and it feels so good! A truly wonderful album that makes the mesmerizing darkness so much fun! THANK YOU!!!!!!🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘!!!!!!