Search - Dawn of Dreams :: Darklight Awakening

Pretty good Melodic BM

Metal_fan | 11/10/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"A worthy addition to your CD collection; Underrated and deserves more attention than it's getting, but I would look forward to more releases from this group.



However, I cannot tell if this release is Melodic Black Metal or Melodic Death Metal; it hints at both. Sure, nobody's going to confuse their sound with Dissection (melodic Black Metal) and nobody's going to confuse their sound with At The Gates (Melodic Death Metal.) The voice of the singer is death metal, the production is death metal, and some of the guitar lines are death metal. However, it hints at something greater, has melodies akin to many black metal bands (in addition to the slew of bm tremolo picked lines), and the drumming style is more like Mayhem or early Dimmu Borgir, than, say, Entombed. The guitars are not necessarily Death Metal guitars, but are easily distinguishable from Black Metal guitars; the guitar sound, instead of blending into an atmospheric dreamscape (Black Metal), they are articulated and technical. Again, however, they are constant and have a relatively ambient feel, as opposed to the well-articulated and distinguishable organization of Death Metal. So, this release may be a bit hard for Death Metal fans to swallow; they might find it a bit too atmospheric for their tastes, whereas elitist Black Metal fans might scoff at the Death Metal tendancies of this release, and view it as not grim or dark enough. Personally, I don't care. Good DM release? I don't know. Good BM release? I don't know that either. Good release on it's own merits? Yes, definitely, and, as I said earlier in this review, I look forward to more releases from the German Dawn Of Dreams."