Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Gothic.

Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl.

Background/Info: Set up in 2006 French formation The Cemetery Girlz strikes back with their first new work in ten years. They never released new productions on an irregular basis so “L’Envol Du Corbeau” brings the band back on the Dark-Wave/Gothic/Death-Rock map.It rather looks like a mini-album as only six songs have been featured.

Content: The work takes off in a very dark way bringing us back to the darkest hours of 80s Dark-Wave music with a Gothic touch on top. We next discover a more melodic side, guitar playing and synths getting more in balance. The last track even sounds pure, dark, reverie.

+ + + : I especially like both debut cuts which aren’t just dark but still tormented because of the atmosphere recovering the songs. The deep, haunting, vocals are accentuating this impression.

– – – : I regret the work didn’t evolve like the dark, haunting, way of the debut. It could have been one of the darkest productions ever produced in this genre of music.

Conclusion: The Cemetery Girlz are back on track this work getting me mixed feelings as it’s switching in between great pieces and more average tracks.

Best songs: “The Wanderer”, “Echoes Of My Tears”, “Eternal Night”.

Rate: 7.

Artist: www.facebook.com/thecemetarygirlz

Label: www.manicdepressionrecords.com / www.facebook.com/manicdepressionrecords Read the news on ‘L’Envol Du Corbeau’.

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About The Cemetary Girlz

The Cemetary Girlz is a French Dark-Wave/Gothic/Death-Rock band founded in 2006 by AlienSPagan and Manu Zorch. The band toured alongside The Chameleons, The Damned, Cinema Strange and Danse Society, and played international goth festivals including Wave Gotik Treffen, Gothic Pogo Festival and Woodgothic in Brazil. The band’s previous album was released in 2013. In 2021, AlienSPagan and Divarre relaunched the project, joined by Sioux Side on bass. “L’Envol Du Corbeau” followed on Manic Depression Records in 2023, a six-track mini-album.

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“L’Envol du Corbeau” is the all new album by the French goth / deathrock act The Cemetary Girlz. Out via the Manic Depression label the album comes in a limited black vynil edition of 300 copies and as a CD, inside a 6-panel digipak.

The Cemetary Girlz was founded in 2006 by AlienSPagan and Manu Zorch. The band toured alongside The Chameleons, The Damned, Cinema Strange, Danse Society, and many others, playing international Goth festivals Wave Gotik Treffen, Gothic Pogo Festival, Woodgothic (Brazil) and countless others.

The band established itself abroad as a pioneer of the French ‘Goth/Batcave/Deathrock’ revival of the 2000s and their last album was released in 2013. “L’envol du Corbeau” is the first new album after a long break when, in 2021, AlienSPagan and Divarre decided to relaunch the band. The duo was joined by Sioux Side on bass, who brought a darker music dimension.

Check out the video for “The Wanderer”.

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