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Release date: 1997
Style: Atmospheric gothic metal

Rating:

8.8 | 266 votes

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01. On Most Surfaces (Inuït)
02. Confusion
03. The May Song
04. The Earth Is My Witness
05. New Moon, Different Day
06. Third Chance
07. Kevin's Telescope
08. Nighttime Birds
09. Shrink

Top 20 albums of 1997: 8
Top 200 albums of all time: 161

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Guest review by
Ernis

Rating:
9.5
"Nighttime Birds" is another beautiful chapter in the story of The Gathering. After the slight downfall with the "Almost A Dance" period the band found themselves again and discovered the beautiful voice of Anneke Van Giersbergen to carry on the sounds of the group's creation. After "Mandylion" which was still similar to the doom style of "Always", Nighttime Birds, their second album to feature Anneke as lead vocalist is a step closer to atmospheric Gothic metal.

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published 21.02.2008 | Comments (2)

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musicalkaratekid - 06.01.2012 at 19:09  
Rating: 10 A personal favourite, and a powerful exit to their 'Progressive metal' era, before treading into poppier and more alt.rock territory. Outstanding album, with songs like 'Shrink' and 'New Moon, different day' proving beautiful.
E.Mols86 - 26.05.2013 at 17:59  
Rating: 7 Extremely overrated album. Musically it's great, but the lyrics are laughably bad and really bring this album down for me. Mandylion and Always... are better than this for sure.

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