Artist description Dark and emotional music created for and by manic depressives.

Music Style Doom Metal , Gothic , Heavy Metal , Alternative , Death , Rock , Soundtrack , Score

Musical Influences Candlemass , My Dying Bride , Anathema , Pink Floyd , Eyehategod , Type O Negative , November's Doom , Avrigus , Black Sabbath

Similar Artists Candlemass , My Dying Bride , Anathema , Pink Floyd ,

Group Members Anthony Lauer - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Programming/Sequencing, Lyrics, & Arrangements

Albums Moments Of Life... Chapter 1

Press Reviews "....Incorporating various musical styles into their songs, Within Tears create dark, moody and extremely sad music. They often employ a wall of slow and heavy, distorted guitars; sometimes the mood shifts with piano sounds and moody guitar solos. But whatever they use to create the multitude of sounds here, the result is always depressing. The vocal styles add to this atmosphere: Within Tears breaks out deep, labored death vocals along with haunting whispers and moans (Think Peter Steele from Type O Negative but even more dramatic). Their vocal bag of tricks also contains an occasional, high pitched, witch-like scream and a clean, female voice - which echoes atmospherically, sounding at one point like a choir of young boys in a large, empty building on "Beauty Creates Pain." Their songs contain various shifts in mood, almost like several movements within each track. All this is to say nothing of the lyrics which are perhaps the most sad and depressing that I have ever come across. The last lines of "Alone" provide a nice example: "My pain dwells in solitude...exposes myself to dead eyes...I'm so alone...I'm so alone." I just can't express how doomy and gloomy this album is. Tracks such as "Empty" and "Mourning" seem like the perfect soundtracks to a god-awful funeral in some gothic church. This is no summertime, feel-good album o' fun; it's more like the perfect album to get in touch with your depressed, goth side and bring you to tears on a cold and moonless night..." Taken from a review by www.cultureburn.com ezine. _________________________________________________________ "...they play a doomy, gothic style similar to My Dying Bride. The snare drum is hit about once a minute, so this is really slow tempo. The guitars are heavily dowtuned and picked at about the same speed as the drums. The most intriguing part of the album is the vocals which hit all kinds of highs and lows. Sometimes, they're spoken, other times deep death metal roars and yet others, a sobbing voice that sounds as though the singer has just finished or still is crying. That's not all...there's also a female vocalist who, along with a male accompanient, does a more operatic, dramatic singing. Keyboards add an air of despair to the whole package. And these boys know how to get into a song. The six tracks on this album come out to a whopping forty minutes..." Taken from a review by www.into-obscurity.com _________________________________________________________ "One of the most completely depressing cds..I got this album direct from the group at a local club here in Brooklyn. They look just like their music sounds. They don't fit into any scene or category. When I first put on the cd I was a little bit puzzled. From what I was told, they were a combo of doom & gothic metal. Their first song/intro sounds like score from a movie that has a slight industrial feel to it. No doom or gothic there, but that quickly changes once the full songs start. There's definitely doom & gothic metal in their music, but there's also so much more. There's totally clean parts that sound so intimate and painful, then there's brutally distorted parts with growls like I've never heard before. Lyrically, this cd is so deep that I felt like I was watching a movie. I could visualize everything that was being said. Probably because I went through a lot of what these songs are about(love and deception, the death of a loved one), as I'm sure that every other person has before. That's the great thing about this cd, you don't have to even like "metal" to feel their music. My girlfriend, who usually hates anything with growls in it, went into tears while listening to this. Enough said...I have no idea why this cd has been self-released. Why aren't record labels releasing music like this instead of the same old crap that's mass produced today. P.S. There's an awesome cover of the Candlemass song Solitude. It takes the power and depression of the original and amplifies it." Taken from a review posted by a listener on www.amazon.com

Location brooklyn, new york - USA

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