Album Review: Inkubus Sukkubus - "Lilith Rising"
Goth/pagan rockers Inkubus Sukkubus have been doing the rounds for over three decades now and honestly, it's a bit of a surprise that they're still very much an underground band. Especially when you consider that bands such as Evanescence and Nightwish essentially took their formula, drained it of all subtlety, whacked a load of brickbat guitars on it and successfully sold it on to the mallrat-metal crowd around the turn of the millennium. It's a real shame because on the evidence of this, no less than their twenty second album, they're a far superior proposition to both of the above. As you'd expect, Lilith Rising is all tales of mist-drenched forests, dark moorlands, witches, vampires and soothsayers but before you start sniggering, it's actually pretty impressive stuff musically with the swooping strings on the title track being followed by the subtle acoustics of Wise Woman . It's this mix of light and dark that sets the tone for the album with th...