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Review from Disfactory Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, August 13, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Disfactory Webzine
Published: August 1, 2014
*Google translation of Italian review

Every now and then from Australia comes out some reality Gothic Metal able to emerge from mediocrity, but in this case you have to say and point out how the Lycanthia are not exactly the newcomer, the first demo in fact dates back to 1997, while the onset through full-length came just two years later (enough already these few details to figure out what we're going to be faced today). But after M...

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Review from Deaf Sparrow Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, April 25, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Deaf Sparrow Webzine
Published: April 24, 2014

Sometimes we kind of have this “thing” for Gothic metal, especially of the black variety, or perhaps with a touch of “the doom” for extra thickness.  When properly combined these things create  a tragic beast.  It’s the kind of thing denied by God as something which may exist, the kind of thing that gets you into trouble more often than not.  When you have such a thing in your possession, it can skew the way you view th...

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Review from Pitchline Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, March 31, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Pitchline Zine
Published: March 31, 2014
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*Google translation of Spanish review

Although the band was formed in 1996, what concerns us here is only the second full-length of this sextet from Sydney after posting earlier, in 1999, their first album, "Myriad", plus an ep called "Within the walls "he made ​​a bridge between the two. Lycanthia proposes What is a Gothic-Doom-Metal adhering strictly to employers that this style has created over the years. The group complies with ...

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Review from Volumes of Sin Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Saturday, March 8, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Volumes of Sin Webzine
Published: March 7, 2014

Although they only have two full-length releases, one demo and an EP, Lycanthia have been around since 1996 and are among the last long-standing metal bands of their kind in Australia. The group are made up of six members; a bassist/vocalist, a violinist/vocalist, a keyboardist/vocalist, a drummer and two guitarists. During their time, Lycanthia have seen numerous additions and subtractions in their line-up, making it almost imp...

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Review from Pure Nothing Worship Magazine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, February 24, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Pure Nothing Worship Magazine; Issue 2
Published: April 2014

Since 1996, the Australian Lycanthia released a demo in ’96, debut album in ’99, an EP in ’06, and now, the second album in 2013. Showing an even better musicianship and a stronger approach since their last album “Myriad”, Lycanthia presents a fairly standard but still nice album of melodic doom / death metal , dominated by clean female vocals, somber riffs, and devastating violin melodies. Although not rev...

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Review from Forgotten Path Magazine; Issue 5

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, October 18, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Forgotten Path Magazine; Issue 5
Published: November 2013

Canadian record label “Hypnotic Dirge Records” keeps on sending us their production and trying to fit the frames of “Forgotten Path”. With a quick look over all their releases they pay most attention to second-rate BM projects and much more interesting Doom Metal genre bands, in my opinion. Although the majority of them lack creativity or some other traits to make momentary impressions of admiration, like durin...

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Review from Metal as Fuck Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, September 19, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Metal as Fuck Webzine
Published: September 18, 2013

Doom metal has always been an interesting sub-genre in that once you move away from the more traditional offshoots of the genre and start looking at the less accessible variants of the sound, (such as death doom or funeral doom) you start to find only a few quality acts spread out through the underground all over the world. That's because there's never really been a centralized scene for that kind of metal, there's no Gothen...

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Review from Metalwave Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, August 30, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Metalwave.it
Published: August 30, 2013
*Google translation of Italian review

The Australians Lycanthia from Sydney arrive at their second album Gothic Doom metal composition after a hiatus that lasted 14 years, and released by Hypnotic Dirge Records. 
7 tracks The most interlude of Lycanthia show us a Gothic Doom Metal often shady, disinclined to be over the top, not particularly dynamic (rarely the trend or the feeling of a song vary noticeably), and also very smooth and quit...

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Review from Metal Roos Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, August 13, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Metal Roos Webzine
Published: August 7, 2013

Formed in Sydney in the late 90s, Lycanthia are a Gothic/Doom band and one of the jewels in the crown of a metal style that has been lacking of recent years to produce genuine heavy albums. But with the release of Oligarchy, this six piece featuring members Lee Tassaker (vocals/bass), Giovanni Gariano and Stephen Mikulic (guitars), Vanessa Black (vocals/violins), Megan Robins (keyboards/vocals) and Andrew Craig on drums, they have ...

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Review from Pest Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, July 31, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Pest Webzine
Published: May 2013 (Posted late)

We're already used with Hypnotic Dirge offering us quality stuff, isn't it? Well Lycanthia isn't any exception from the rule, but they are walking different paths than previously shown by HDR. Although still melancholic like the rest Lycanthia's music is a combination of Gothic, Doom and Death Metal with beauty and the best type of vocals, keyboards and violin all over the place. These guys are around since 1996 and it seems they...

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Review from We Love Metal Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, July 18, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: We Love Metal
Published: July 13, 2013
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There are so many sub-genres and offshoots of metal these days I tend to stick to the few I know and rarely stray from my happy place. With that said, every once and awhile a band will come along that appeals to me and I feel I need to learn more.

Lycanthia from Australia recently grabbed my interest and for me to put them in a sub-genre of metal would sound something like this: “Neo-classical fusion of doom/death, layered with keyboard...

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Review from ZWareMetalen Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, July 18, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: ZWareMetalen
Published: July 13, 2013
*Google translation of Dutch review

Opener The Essential Components Of Misery does initially think of a weak infusion of Draconian . Not entirely surprising, the Australian Lycanthia is also shared female fronted and makes music that sounds like a fusion of slow death with doom, gothic and rock with a metal trim. The band has been around since 1997 and is therefore not a new player on the field.

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Review from Aristocrazia Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, July 18, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Aristocrazia Webzine
Published: July 8, 2013
*Google translation of Italian review

The formation gothic / doom of Lycanthia navigate within the underground scene since more than three decades: despite having lived a then that would assure a discrete manufacturing, has found itself for many reasons, primarily the continuous changes of a pinwheel training that currently sees the only bassist / vocalist Lee Tassaker as remaining original member, to provide the listener with their...

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Review from Legacy Magazine; Issue #85

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, July 3, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Legacy Magazine; Issue #85
Published: June 2013
*Google translation of German review

In Australia, the time has stopped. At least for the active band since 1996, Lycanthia. Which has indeed left 14 years time for their second album, but it sounds to the typical Gothic Doom the Nineties, with the Theatre Of Tragedy, Tristania or My Dying Bride have grown. The long compositions are thus two voices intoned, the grunts of Lee Tassaker but is quite flashy, while two ladies with ...

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Review from Destructive Music

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, July 1, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Destructive Music
Published: July 1, 2013
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On first listen, I did quite like Lycanthia’s ‘Oligarchy’ as a mood-setter: it has the gently twanging lead guitar lines, keening violin melodies, and pretty decent operatic female vocal/growled male vocal duo that make a good gothic/doom metal album. There’s some luscious and tasty composition elements in here, particularly in the classical-influenced sections, but I felt that something was not quite sitting right, and it eve...

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Review from Metal Revolution Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, June 6, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Metal Revolution Webzine
Published: June 5, 2013

It has been well over a decade since the previous full-length release from Lycanthia, but lots has happened in the meantime, well at least in regards to the band's lienu-up. Band's founder Lee Tassaker has gone through more than fifteen different band members.
You'd think that all this would make it hard for Tassaker to maintan the focus and core of the idea behind Lycanthia. Fortunately that is not the case. This, mostly thanks...

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Review from Doom-metal.com

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, June 6, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Doom-Metal.com
Published: June 4, 2013

Lycanthia are one of those bands you may well have heard of, with 17 years and counting of existence behind them, yet never actually heard anything by, thanks to a prior release catalogue comprising just one demo, one album and an EP - none of which are readily obtainable. Second album 'Oligarchy', initially released through Australia's Green Media Distribution in 2012 (a mere 13 years after the debut full-length 'Myriad'), was the start...

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Review from Headbang Music

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, June 6, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Headbang Music
Published: June 1, 2013
*Google translation of Italian review

Every now and then from Australia comes out some gothic reality out of the norm, even though the Lycanthia are not exactly newbies since the first demo was in 1997 while the first full in 1999. Then the little or nothing for years and years (only an EP in 2006) until you get to this Oligarchy first self-produced, then backed by Hypnotic Dirge Records that could not let him perish rightly long in water...

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Review from Global Domination Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Saturday, June 1, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Global Domination Webzine
Published: May 30, 2013
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“Oligarchy” is the second album from this Australian gothic doom band and it has a very 90s flavour to it. The band seems a bit obsessed with early Theatre of Tragedy. The mix of clean, melodic female vocals (done pretty well) with harsh, growled and rasped vocals and loads of violins and keyboards gives it a feel similar to late 90s goth-doom acts like The Sins of Thy Beloved but Lycanthia’s sound is rougher and lacks t...
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Review from Ave Noctum Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, May 28, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Ave Noctum Webzine
Published: May 26, 2013
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The touch of romantic, atmospheric doom spreads far and is not synonymous with the cold rain cobbled streets of Yorkshire even if its frozen fronds spread from there. In fact I am sure the climate could not be much further removed as we are swept into the violin etched caress of this heartfelt and lament filled band from Australia where apparently they are one of the oldest surviving doom acts down under.  Releases have not been that...

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Review from Infernal Masquerade Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, May 28, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Infernal Masquerade Webzine
Published: May 20, 2013
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Being huge fans of Gothic Death/Doom Metal, it is quite a treat when we get promos from bands like Lycanthia that keep the genre alive and give it a push with their excellent release. In “Oligarchy” the band delivers eight tracks of majestic Gothic Death/Doom Metal in the same vein of bands like Draconian, Ashes You Leave, old Theater Of Tragedy, The Sins of Thy Beloved, etc. With more than 50 minutes of music, this rele...

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Review from SicMaggot Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, May 28, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Sicmaggot Webzine
Published: May 19, 2013
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*Google translation of Czech review

As already the case with reviews on the little-known band is, probably it would be appropriate to start with what's actually going to be playing for style and some sauce on the history of the group. But do not be fooled, though, I said that Lycanthia is a famous group, certainly not some puppies, because these Aussies have pulled my cart since 1996, although the current "oligarch" is only their secon...

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Review from Metal.info

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, May 13, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Metalinfo Reviews
Published: May 13, 2013
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*Google translation of German review

Founded in 1996, it was after the '99er debut album became quiet around the Gothic Doomer LYCANTHIA from Sydney: Until 2006, fans had to wait, and then got with "Within The Walls" only an EP offered. Now what about "Oligarchy" the second album by the Australians in the stores. What Australia's oldest active Doom band, how calls himself, delivers here is still a very solid mix of doomy elements such ...
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Review from Melting Album Reviews

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, May 7, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Melting Album Reviews
Published: May 5, 2013
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This is a six piece that needs listening to. Hailing from Australia, Lycanthia have been producing music since 1996 making them both an enigma and a standout for the Australian metal scene, especially in the gothic doom genre. It wasn’t enough for the band to release a single stellar record; instead they did it again and again. It could be argued that this style of music has been done before, but never in such a convincing and al...
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Review from: Alterrnativ Musik

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, April 29, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Alternativ Musik
Published: April 29, 2013
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*Google translation of German review

Oh, a gothic metal album with a female singer - how exciting! And then also a record cover, which somehow looks like cutscenes from computer games of the 90s. Has not already been said and done with Nightwish and countless high fluctuating epigones everything? You could definitely see that in Lycanthia it's just not so simple, because behind the visually appealing not just cover hides quite a good ...

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Review from Alarm666

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, April 29, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Alarm666
Published: April 27, 2013
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*Google translation of Danish review

Then Hypnotic Dirge Records again sent us a couple of albums to review, and then you never know quite what to expect. We know, however, that usually is music that requires some time to familiarize themselves in.

Lycanthia is from Australia and plays doom metal. It is not a new band, actually they have been around since 1997, but the "oligarchy" is still only their second album. My inspirations include downl...
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Review from Ravenheart Music

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, April 24, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Raven Heart Music
Published: April 16, 2013
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Formed in 1996, Lycanthia carries with them a history spanning 17 years and are one of Australia's oldest surviving doom metal bands. A six piece band hailing from Sydney, Lycanthia play traditional gothic death-doom metal with a strong emphasis on atmosphere, melody, and the captivating use of alternating male growls (courtesy Lee Tassaker) and female soprano vocals from violinist and keyboardists Vanessa Black and Megan Tassaker....
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  LYCANTHIA - OLIGARCHY

Released: April 7, 2013
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Gothic Death-Doom Metal


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