Karelia - Losing My Religion

Karelia is a French heavy metal band created in 2000 by Lionel Vest and Matthieu Kleiber.

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01. Restless
02. Trial
03. Mirror, Mirror
04. Lift Me Up
05. Please Come On In
06. Lovin' Wife
07. Crash
08. Give It Away
09. From My Window
10. Losing My Religion

Karelia first released a self-titled demo in 2000.

Their first full-length album Usual Tragedy was released in 2004 on the German label Drakkar Records. It includes many orchestral arrangements which are the reason why the band's music is often called symphonic heavy metal or simply symphonic metal. Lyricwise, Usual Tragedy is a concept album about a man who crossed both World Wars, lost his father during the first one, lost his beloved one during the second one, witnessed the violence and the madness of men, eventually lost his own sanity and died alone and anonymous in an hospital.

Their second studio album, Raise, released in 2005 on Drakkar Records as well, is not as orchestral as Usual Tragedy but has dark, melancholic atmospheres that could already be heard on the first album as well and that seem to be the band's trademark; that's why Karelia's music is also sometimes called gothic metal. The lyrics deal with various themes such as blinding and misleading of people by a charismatic leader ("Raise"), religion wars ("Cross and Crescent"), childhood ("Child Has Gone", "Unbreakable Cordon"), depression ("Breakdown").

In January 2007, keyboardist Bertrand Maillot left the band, and Jack Ruesch joined the band as second guitarist.

In June 2007, the band finished the recording of its third album Restless. It was first expected to be released in September/October 2007 (as stated in January 2007 on their still-working then website), but Karelia later announced on its MySpace that it would be released through the French label Season Of Mist; the label's website displays April 21 2008 as the release date. The cover artwork hasn't been revealed yet. Restless will show new musical orientations, featuring industrial elements, as can be heard in the samples available on the band's MySpace.

In fall November 2007, Karelia opened for the well-known German hard rock band Scorpions for three of their shows in France.

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[lhulsbos]

I like this cover because you can still clearly identify the original song it was based off of. Some of the other metal covers could be anything because the original song has been so slaughtered that it's not even recognizable anymore.

[khulsbos]

Amazing cover! I think I actually prefer this to REM's original! (No offense to REM, love their version too). The heavy metal aspect really adds to it in a good way!

[bennett475]

Graveworm shit all over this version :D

[aaronmm86]

Very nice cover but more like the Graveworm version :)

[TheWarrior39]

@Cal093 Maybe you dont like the scream vocal.A lot of people likes it.Its not an easy thing as you think.At least more and more harder than clean vocal.

[Papciopolak]

My search for perfect "Losing My Religion" cover was long and I thought it was all in vain. I was mistaken!

[thackr01]

vocalist sounds like Anders Freiden from In Flames, don't you think?

[Cal093]

see, this is bad ass. there's no guttural screaming like in most, if not all, 'metal' bands around now. Honestly, talent like this should be appreciated instead of some guy growlshouting into a mic, bobbing his head like an epileptic, while the bass & lead guitarists do all the REAL 'talented' work. The heavy/death metal guitarists are SO much better talentwise than their so-called 'vocalists' so... why the hell dont we just cut out the ugly shouting all together?

[Nanoviper]

Pretty sick cover; Also their metal isn't modern metal per-se but metal nonetheless. If you doubt this listen to some Black Sabbath or Blind Guardian and tell me how much screaming and double bass you hear.

[toolfan2369]

quit bitching all you pansies they did an awesome job.

[lewar271076]

fajny cover :)

[cnhawkxyy]

To be honest I don't like this cover at all. They use all measures and skills to make it metal. But they fail to express the emotion. REM, Graveworm and even some unnamed female singer did much better jobs.