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Article Excerpt
Byline: Jeff Pizek Daily Herald Staff Writer
Chicago Powerfest 2007
Where: The Pearl Room, 19081 Old LaGrange Road, Mokena
When: 6 p.m. April 20 and 21
Tickets: $18 per day, $30 for two-day pass
Phone: (312) 559-1212 or www.chicagopowerfest.com
Say the word "doom" to metal fans, and they will tell you it signals "dark, heavy and slow." They might even point to Chicago veterans Novembers Doom.
After all, the word is there in their name, and for more than a decade, the band built a solid international reputation as a quality doom/death metal act. However, the quintet has outgrown the term's confines.
Their new CD, "The Novella Reservoir" (The End), is often dark and heavy, even occasionally slow. Vocalist and founder Paul Kuhr continues to offer his signature personal perspective.
However, the rumble of energy that hits listeners in opening track "Rain" reappears throughout the disc. Upbeat tempos dominate, the results invariably engaging. When the lilting ballad "Twilight Innocence" beams like sunlight through clouds, it's clear that ND has expanded horizons.
Next weekend, the band takes the stage of Mokena's Pearl Room as part of Chicago Powerfest 2007, an event now in its fifth edition and...
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