Letters from the Earth is the second album by the Polish gothic metal

Gothic metal

Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that combines the aggression of doom metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music...

 band Undish

Undish

Undish is a Christian gothic metal band from Oborniki, Poland, formed in 1991. Undish is led by female vocalist Ada Szarata as well as a male vocalist named Robert Baum who is also handling the drums...

, released on Morbid Noizz Productions in 1999. The album was only released in Poland.

Recording

Letters from the Earth was released only in Poland in 1999. On this album, the female vocalist Ada Szarata officially joined the band and sings more than the drummer Robert Baum. The album showcases a more advanced sound production compared to its predecessor. While the album maintains the previous romantic gothic metal style, the overall out put is a bit more intense, slightly faster at some parts while still retaining the doom metal tendencies, and more complicated in songwriting. The album's name might have derived from the book titled Letters from the Earth

Letters from the Earth

Letters from the Earth is one of Mark Twain's posthumously published works. The essays were written during a difficult time in Twain's life; he was deep in debt and had lost his wife and one of his daughters...

by Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...

, although the lyrical content does not contain clear similarities with the book.

Track listing

1. "I" - 3:13
2. "II" - 3:19
3. "III" - 3:39
4. "IV" - 5:59
5. "V" - 4:45
6. "VI" - 1:34
7. "VII" - 5:27
8. "VIII" - 4:30
9. "IX" - 5:08
10. "X" - 0:58

Personnel

• Robert Baum: drums, vocals
• Michal Christoph: guitar, guitar synthesizer
• Ada Szarata: vocals
• Andrzej Walensiak: bass
• Gracjan Jeran: guitar, vocals