YMMV / Anathema (Band)

YMMV about the band:

• Alternate Character Interpretation: Played with. The Optimist seems to deliver an alternate character interpretation of A Fine Day to Exit's protagonist - as an optimist who makes a decision against suicide.
• Broken Base: Over the Genre Shift.
• Epic Riff: "Fragile Dreams".
• Even Better Sequel: Weather Systems to We're Here Because We're Here. Reviews describe it as taking everything that made WHBWH good and going even further.
• Funny Moments: "Judgment" is a really bitter song... that ends with a Record Needle Scratch.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The band has had much more commercial success in various parts of Europe than in their home country.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • "Ariel", written by Danny for his daughter.
  • The concept of The Optimist. Whereas A Fine Day to Exit was the loose story of a man being pushed to brink of suicidal depression, The Optimist is about his newfound will to live and his journey home.
• Signature Song: "A Dying Wish" and "Fragile Dreams" from their metal period, "Untouchable, Part 1" and "Thin Air" from the Kscope years.
• Sweet Dreams Fuel: Plenty to be found on their Kscope albums.
  • Even before that, there was "Violence", the 10-minute instrumental piece that concludes A Natural Disaster. Coming after the forlorn "Electricity", it's also a massive Tear Jerker in context.
• Tear Jerker: So many of their songs are this trope that it's hard to choose a specific one as an example.
  • The music video for "Dreaming Light", the pinnacle of the mood and genre shift.
  • All three parts of "The Lost Song", but mainly Part 1 and Part 2.
  • Both parts of "Untouchable".
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Their shift from death/doom/gothic metal to atmospheric rock had this effect, possibly even more so than the various shifts in genre Paradise Lost made.