Utopia, by Unexpect

Utopia

by Unexpect

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barenziah Awesome art; Vespers Gold stil gives me goosebumps 20 years after Favorite track: Vespers Gold.

aotihav This debut makes Unexpect's later albums and EP easier to contextualize. It features elements that would be heavily refined with those later releases, but in this debut their sound is notably easier to draw comparisons to late 90s/early 00's bands marrying classical and romantic metal aspects. There's a heavy undertone of gothic metal and the kind of sonic territory bands like Ram-Zet were toying with, not to mention formative power metal, all tied together with ambitious compositions + playing.

Zilch You can't go wrong with Unexpect. Favorite track: Palace of Dancing Souls.

Ken Goodey I feel like the members of Unexpect are in some way members of my extended family. I first heard their music while 'rambling' on MySpace and I thought it was unlike anything else I'd heard. I messaged the band to give them a 'like' and quickly received a thanks from the bassist. Now I don't expect this kind of contact from every artist, but these occasional contacts with musicians I respect is all part of the pleasure of being into styles of music that aren't what you'd call mainstream. Favorite track: In Velvet Coffins we Sleep.

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1.	Vespers Gold 07:32	buy track
2.	Constellations and Mysticism 05:37	buy track
3.	Metamorphosis 02:45	buy track
4.	Shades of a Forbidden Passion 06:44	buy track
5.	Palace of Dancing Souls 02:54	buy track
6.	The Fall of Arthrone 07:28	buy track
7.	Ethereal Dimensions 07:46	buy track
8.	The Flames of Knowledge Forever Lost 07:16	buy track
9.	In Velvet Coffins we Sleep 08:53	buy track
10.	The Revival 08:34	buy track

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Unexpect Debut Album

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released July 1, 1999

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Unexpect Montréal, Québec

Hailing from Montreal (Canada), Unexpect is a metal laboratory mixing elements of black/death/symphonic/melodic metal; progressive, classical, electro, folk, jazz, operatic, mathcore, ambient, noise, circus music and anything else crossing their minds. The collective includes a violin, keyboards/sampling, a singing contemporary dancer, a 9 stringed bass, 2 guitarists/singers and a drum. ... more

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