LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

1 - Sophya (1'34)2 - (I. Final Prelude/II. Visionnary) (6'47)3 - The Decline (5'36)4 - Floating Blue Room (5'46)5 - Thinking (6'00)6 - Here (5'16)7 - In The Sophyan Deepest Night (5'31)8 - Creeping Paralysis (5'10)9 - 3992 (2'22) THE AGE OF INNOCENCE is an excellent French group, willing to create a conceptual work belonging to the best atmospheric dark-metal, gothic influences and even Progressive rock. Recorded in the year 2000 on the Thundering label, "3992: Sophya" alternates intense passages and ethereal orchestration with the same good spirit. Yvan KWIETNIAK’s singing evolves somewhere between the opera registers and the more guttural vocalists. His colleague Alain Le BOURG shines on guitar, as well as on bass and keyboards. This very interesting music could be compared with DIMMU BORGIR or CRADLE OF FILTH (Less extreme). Not to be missed !