Band: Fairytale Abuse

Title: Perversions Of Angels VI

Label: Massacre Records

Distribution: Suburban

Release date: 23/05/2008

Review: CD

Fairytale Abuse (what’s in a name???), hailing from Denmark, was formed in 1998 and did in mean time release one full length album before, The Spirit Tower (HateWorks Records, 2006). This new album by Simon Rodgaard Pedersen (v), guitar players Michael Birkedal Alm and Morten PassowOdgaard, Danni Lyse Jelsgaard (d), Morten Lykke Andersen (b) and Jonas Reif Jorgensen (k) was recorded with producer Jan Borsing (Illnath, Chtonic, Iniquity a.o.) and has duration of fifty three minutes. Perversions … is faster and heavier than the former one, yet the core stays the same: rhythmic, melodic, atmospheric and symphonic, classical Black Metal. Sometimes the whole reminds me to bands as Dismal Euphony, Cradle Of Filth, Graveworm, early Gehenna (like for example the main melodies of A Phenomenon’s Rage - The Burden) Furia, early Twilight Ophera and Ancient Ceremony, but Fairytale Abuse certainly can’t be considered just another Cradle Of Filth-would-be. The dark and horrific lyrics fit to the chilly songs and the many tempo- and melody-changes are another surplus. Perversions … might not be the most renewing album, but it is a real recommendation to every fan of melodic yet dark and orchestral slightly Goth-oriented Black Metal.

81/100

Ivan Tibos.