Nighttime Birds

Nighttime Birds

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
The Gathering no longer really sounds like a traditional death metal band on this 1997 release, the music is mostly melodic (yet tinged with sorrow), slow to midtempo progressive metal, with Van Giersbergen's distinctive voice soaring above the band's nicely varied textures. 9 tracks. Century Media. 2003.

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Nighttime Birds
The Gathering
Manufacturer: EMI/Century Media
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000AAVETG
Release Date: 2006-07-17

Tracks:

On Most Surfaces
Confusion
May Song
Earth Is My Witness
New Moon, Different Day
Third Chance
Kevin's Telescope
Nighttime Birds
Shrink

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Nighttime Birds
The Gathering
Manufacturer: EMI Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Progressive Metal | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music

Death Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Hard Rock & Metal | Imports | Stores | Music
ASIN: B000SKMNVG
Release Date: 2007-08-06

Tracks:

On Most Surfaces
Confusion
May Song
Earth Is My Witness
New Moon, Different Day
Third Chance
Kevin's Telescope
Nighttime Birds
Shrink

Album Description

2007 deluxe two CD reissue of the Dutch Symphonic Metal band's '97 release. This 10th Anniversary edition features the original album plus six bonus tracks on Disc One. Disc Two features an addition 13 tracks including demos, non-album cuts and more. Century Media.

Album Details

2007 Release of No Less Than 29 Tracks, this Deluxe Edition of "Nighttime Birds" is the Most Complete Anthology of the the Gathering Circa 1997 that One Can Get.

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Not that bad really, although!!
Anneke Is Awesome
oh my gosh
Anekke is God
Great follow-up to Mandylion

Nighttime Birds
The Gathering
Manufacturer: Century Media
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music

Progressive Metal | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music

Death Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music

Progressive | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music
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Mandylion
Mandylion

ASIN: B000005HNQ
Release Date: 1997-08-12

Tracks:

On Most Surfaces
Confusion
The May Song
The Earth Is My Witness
New Moon Different Day
Third Chance
Kevin's Telescope
Nighttime Birds
Shrink

Album Description

The Gathering no longer really sounds like a traditional death metal band on this 1997 release, the music is mostly melodic (yet tinged with sorrow), slow to midtempo progressive metal, with Van Giersbergen's distinctive voice soaring above the band's nicely varied textures. 9 tracks. Century Media. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

Not that bad really, although!!.......2006-10-12

The Gathering really opened my eyes by what the band had brought to the table with Mandylion. It was just so strong in so many ways it was scary. Aneeke's beautiful voice floated above the riffage below creating a amazing vibe or atmosphere.

Although they have gotten away from their heavier side with each subsequent release, Nighttime Birds has still got those magical moments in it. It's not as heavy as Mandylion was and they haven't been that heavy in some time now, but Birds is pretty decent cd overall and recommended by this metalhead.

Anneke Is Awesome.......2005-06-24

Anneke and Tarja from Nightwish are my two favorite female lead singers when it comes to this kind of music. While with Nightwish, we have over-the-top sythesizers and powerful operatic voices, The Gathering are more laid-back, delivering a more subtle power through lead-vocalist Anneke.

Anneke is by far superior to the Evanescense singer. It's difficult for me to compare the two, as I see them as from two completely separate genres. The Gathering sounds more gothic and less like Britney Spears trying to be gothic. Evanescense is okay...they're better than Tapping the Vein, but that's not saying a whole lot. This band is miles above the two: they started as a gothic band and slowly became more acceptable to a larger audience. But the fact is that they appeal to BOTH the goth AND the pop crowds, and if that is not signs of a talented band, I don't know what is.

Only reason I rate it four stars is because I don't really like the more pop-sounding melodies they use, but that's more an issue of personal taste than a defect of the band.

Highlights for me include: "Nighttime Birds", "Confusion", and "Kevin's Telescope".

oh my gosh.......2005-04-30

Good Lord have mercy! 'Nighttime Birds' is a perfect follow up to 'Mandylion'! No two songs sound alike, and the female lead vocals just make you feel good inside. A truly amazing piece of music. A highly recomended purchase for fans of any style of music!!

Anekke is God.......2003-11-13

If god were a female with a beautiful voice.

I love her vocals, they are absolutely beautiful and divine. I rank her right up there with Tarja of Nightwish as my favorite female vocalist.

They mix rock, prog, and etherial atmosphere with her beautiful (soprano is it called?) singing. The mix is absolutley perfect. The yearning is obvious is Kevin's Telescope as well as wishing to be free as a bird is Nighttime Birds. The Earth is my Witness talks about the rejuvination of life and Shrink tells about inadequacies in like.

Do yourself a favour and buy this album (along with the rest of their albums). You won't look back.

Great follow-up to Mandylion.......2003-10-06

On their second release featuring vocalist Anneke van Giersbergen, the Dutch band The Gathering moves even further away from their death metal roots, though they continue to be inexplicably lumped into that genre. It's unfortunate, because most of the bad reviews you'll read of The Gathering are a result of this confusion. Either way, the band shows a growth in their sound, a continuation of the atmospheric, moody beauty first presented on their previous release "Mandylion." Annke's vocals, while certainly haunting and beautiful, may not be technically perfect, as pointed out by a few narrow-minded reviewers, but there has rarely been a case where a singer's voice was so perfectly suited to the music she's singing. It really is magical at times (right around the 5 minute mark in "On Most Surfaces," for example). "Nighttime Birds" is a solid progression to the sound the band cultivated on "Mandylion," being a little less metal, a little more atmospheric, carrying themselves futher from "death" and closer to "prog."