Unfortunately, between 2004 and 2010 Anathema faded away from the scene which they helped build and led since 1993.  In these last six years, they did release a number of free tracks, available from their website, and a compilation called Hindsight.  But people were eagerly waiting for their come back.  The news that Anathema finally were signed up to a label (KScope Records) in 2009, struck the media and fans like a ray of light through a dark room’s window.  As a matter of fact, Anathema’s latest album “We’re here …

ANATHEMA officially announced the release of their eagerly anticipated 8th studio album ‘WE’RE HERE BECAUSE WE’RE HERE’.  It is set to be released on May 31st via Kscope Records.

‘‘We’re Here Because We’re Here’ is Anathema’s most expansive album to date and by the far best thing we’ve ever done. Not only have we improved as writers, but because we took our time, we had the opportunity to select the very best material and concentrate on it. We gave the songs the chance to breathe and come alive by themselves and …

Anathema’s Danny Cavanagh & The Gathering ex-singer Anneke Van Giesbergen will be teaming up again for a couple of special shows NEXT WEEK to celebrate the release of their new live album titled “in Parallel”. The dates are:
Sept 24 – ANTWERP, Belgium (Pandemonium)
Sept 25 – EINDHOVEN, Holland (Dynamo)
The album features live versions of classics from Anathema, Agua de Annique and the Gathering, along with cover versions such as ‘Teardrop’ (originally written from Massive Attack) and Damien Rice’s ‘The Blower’s Daughter’. The album has 15 tracks running over an hour in …

Without a record label for 2003 – 2008, Anathema couldn’t do much.  They played a couple of live gigs and they released 3 free songs (which you could download from their website for free).  I’ve been to 2 of their gigs, one of them was at the ‘Unholy Trinity’ in the UK, and Anathema rocked the place.  Their stage presence, the atmosphere and the movement they created was by far better than that of Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride.
Thanks to their switch to atmospheric rock, in 2008, they signed …

Alternative 4 reminds me of my teen years, listening to it on my way to school, in rock bars in the evening while head banging and getting drunk, and obviously at home. At some stage in my life I was listening to this album 24 hours a day and till today, it is still one of my favourite doom albums, so today I decided to listen to it again.
Impressive! Simple, clean, atmospheric, at the same time moving! Many doom albums are noisy to appreciate base guitar riffs, or …