The West Pole

Days ago The Gathering announced their new album: The West Pole, it is their first album after Anneke van Giersbergen left them in 2007, additionally with this new album they announced the new member of them, her name: Silje Wergeland, she has a pretty voice and a nice style, now the question is if she can make a good, nice or better job than Anneke's times.

The first answer that you can get is by listening the new singles that are published in their space site

You can get more information about Silje in this site about her discography.

It's the first time that I heard about her and after listening the new singles I can say that they hear very well, it seems to be a nice beginning to The Gathering after the news from 2007.

About the new songs, they are pretty different if you compare them with their previous album Home. The guitars are lighter, with a whiter sound, and more armonic. The songs are Guitar driven instead of bass or guitar noise driving. Their new sound is easier to listen to new fans maybe this is a good point but for fan's from previous years it could be a little bit dissapointed because for example in "Treasure" you won't hear any sad sound or a depressive song at all, you'll hear a "happy" song (considering their other albums). On the other hand, The West Pole is a song that was written in their original style, and maybe it can make you remember another Gathering's song. After all, it can be an album with well known sounds and new style songs, I hope it will bring a great surprise to me.

The release of the new album seems to be April 5th 2009, and you can get this album and its special editions (I already bought my own) in their official web-store. It's just a question of time to get it and hear the complete album.

Finally you can take a look to their new pics, songs and blog just to get more information about this new disc, new songs, and a new member.



Let me know your comments and thoughts.



Diegue