Released
1998

Label
Metropolis Records

Reviewed by
Daniel Marvin

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London After Midnight
P.O. Box 1377
Hollywood, CA. 90078-1377

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London After Midnight

Last Edit/Update
18 June, 1999

London After Midnight

Selected Scenes From the End of the World

Track Listing

1. Revenge
2. Nightmare
3. Spider and the Fly
4. Claire's Horrors
5. Sacrifice
6. This Paradise
7. The Black Cat
8. Your Best Nightmare

    London After Midnight is just your average run off the mill gothclone from Western America. From the cheesy, pretentious lyrics to the everyday guitar riffs it's nothing short of boring. In all technically, if you enjoy their other work, you will like this since it's no different at all. In fact, I'm quite sure this is a 'greatest hits' sort of thing, which means that if these are the best track, all the others must be quite similar. I think that what proves a band has talent is that they continue to slightly morph their work with each album; every track on here, assumably from different albums, is exactly the same. So, furthermore, if you like one song, you'll like them all.

    Every track fulfills its gothrock checklist with the typical low-end / tom-oriented percussion, driving bass lines, some generally simplistic guitar riffs, the normal accompaniment of some synthetic pad in the background, and of course those horribly lame 'dark and romantic' lyrics. Maybe this sort of repetitiveness in the goth scene is why Corpus Delicti went coldwave/electro.