The Gathering - Souvenirs (2003)
I gave their album Mandylion a shot some months back and found it a bit too overly operatic for my tastes. This album is more up my alley and is exactly what I was hoping to hear from this band. It's a difficult album to categorise as it moves on from the gothic metal of Mandylion and takes more influence from trip-hop and alternative rock. The first half of the album is flawless but there's a couple of tracks near the end that drag it down slightly. Overall it's a great album.