Album Notes

SORRY..TOTALLY SOLD OUT UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

This group was not familiar to me before Blu send me the Eternal CD.

Firstly I'd like to note that this is not a new CD since the date on it is 1997....so we are talking about an older job and not a new release.

Written in Ashes is a group that bases it sound in the old school of the scene...and when I say the old school I mean groups that left history two decades ago when the meaning of gothic rock was complete different from today with no hard/metal guitars combined with keyboards.

All these elements that through time created the now so called and known gothic/gothic metal.

The atmosphere that this CD creates ( especially the song "Petals-like the night-") is something true and authentic -- something that is really missing from the scene nowadays.

Something out of the industry...something true...a Philosophy.

"At a certain place and moment in time, all good things must come to an end. As the ignorance and gluttony of mankind slowly asphyxiates our very existence, from the rubble of a thousand broken dreams, a new era is born".

The whole CD has the same tone and profile, with clean guitars -- distortion is used in some solos but rarely which bring a more aggressive style to Written In Ashes.

Influenced by the New Wave sounds of days past, Pete Guzzardi strives to breath new life into the traditional guitarist's role.

Michael Draper's (one of the founding members of Sylvias Ghost) bass playing style is both an anchor and a beacon on the dark sea of Northwest music combined perfectly with Kevin Douglas Hay's voice who brings a vocal sensuousness to Written in Ashes that is richly dark and alluring.

The result is the resurrection of a melancholic world forgotten in the past but whose name will always be Written in Ashes.

Best moments of the CD are your ghost, "Petals (Like the night)", "the promise" and "The Burden".

(above review by Vassago) Written in Ashes are: Kevin Hay : vocals, guitars, keyboards David Anderson: guitar, violin, vocals Eric Hold: bass, keyboard, programming Davis Battrick: Drums, percussions

--Philip Kram, January 1997