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After their successful debut album "Winter, so unsagbar Winter..." (2002) and the following concept-album "Einer Nacht Gewesenes" (2005), the german gothic-crossover-band Adversus now offer their fans "Laya", which with its 35 minutes of music and more than 8 minutes videotrack is a mini-album - in comparison to the playing lengths of the regular Adversus albums, that are more than 77:00 minutes!

Unlike the mostly driving, beat-dominated and complexe-opulent combination of metal, classical and electronic elements on the former Adversus albums, "Laya" presents the band‘s calm and slow side with acoustic instruments and folk or classical melodies.

The lyrics have again the same importance than the music. Adversus‘ composer, singer and mastermind Rosendorn uses a very unique grammatical style of german lyrics, combining terms and syntaxes from older times (especially german romantic and medieval poetry) with a modern sounding...