I have been known to wander the Internet in search of new bands. This is a quest that has led me to discover many a gem. There has been an abundance of diamonds in amoungst the toilet fodder... And, today, I shall introduce you to one such diamond.

I came across Nadir's website this morning. I added the Googoth search engine to our front page and decided to type random words into it to see what it would come up with. I can't remember which random words brought me to Nadir, but I am now very thankful to them *goes to thank dictionary*

From what I can work out (and this could be wrong) Nadir are a Spanish metal band which was formed from the pieces of another band called Obscure (this is another band which I am going to have to have a listen to). The members of Nadir wanted to create a different sound in comparison to Obscure, they wanted to create slow and heavy music with "miserable melodies". If the MP3s are anything to go by, then they have definitely achieved this.

I found that quite a few bands sprung to mind when I listened to the first MP3, "So Tired". Vocally they sound not too dissimilar to Type O Negative and the tempo and general feel of that track reminded me of Novembre. This is a compliment from me since I feel that both of those bands are excellent (especially Novembre after their gig in... erm... November). There are some beautiful keys in this track and the great thing is that they manage to remain subtle throughout the track so that they don't become the main focus point of the music.

I'm going to give you a little taster of the lyrics from both of the tracks mentioned. Here's an extract from "So Tired":