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By chance I got the debut CD of an american artist, named SOREN. He released his first album on his own label and also distributes it himself.

„The Dying Man“ is a very many-sided album which will please a lot of people, who like dark, independent music.

The album opens with the title song „The Dying Man“, a Neo-Folk song with certain Death In June/Sol Invictus influences and a bit of New Wave feeling, too. Next comes the wonderful, „Beautiful For You“, which reminds me a bit of some acoustic tracks of New Model Army or The Mission.“Cipher“ has some Christian Death (Valor incarnation) moments and is really good, too. The right track for Gothic-Rock fans is „Atro City“, which comes along like a more doomy version of The Mission, but also has some electronic pieces in it. „Vicious Circle“ is a bit harder, but Gothic again and the voice reminds me on Peter Spilles of Project Pitchfork. Then follows the best song on this album, „The Devil´s Fault“, which  is a fine Gothic-/Death-Rock track with great guitar work. More Dark-Wave with really good rhythms is „Ritual Surrender“. „Sacrifice“ is a fine ballad, which sounds like a mixture of The Mission and Sol Invictus again, but with very own vocals. Last track is „The End“, some kind of Outro, which closes a great album.

„The Dying Man“ will be loved by all fans of both, Neo-Folk and Gothic-Rock, but has its own style, mostly because of the likeable vocals of Soren. We´re going to interview this outstanding musician soon. (A.P.)