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Band:
Unhealthy Dreams
Title: Doloris Corpus
Material: cd
Label: Auto-production
Year: 2007
Length: 24:16
Reviewed by: HssH
Mark:
3,5/5
Welcome
to human darkness with Unhealthy Dreams: five tracks that glorify
dark electro industrial and black experimental music. It is such
as a dark fairy tale about human’s decay and mankind’s
torments. This opus called “Doloris Corpus” and it
is the third release of the band after “Vatican Armageddon”
demo (1999) and “Nightmares give way to Apocalypse”
cd (2003). Everything is ok to form an opinion about this stuff:
music parts as production and mastering. The whole is polished
and came off. A self release is still a delicate piece of work
and Unhealthy Dreams turn the test into a success. But at the
same time they could do much more with a better professional recording.
It is true that “Doloris Corpus” could sound more
powerfully than it is there even if it is already satisfying.
Thus, you can hope for a excellent release with their next recording.
Therefore, “Doloris Corpus” is such as a step before
a master-work. The compositions are various enough and ingenious
in this way to make the whole very attractive. If you are used
to black metal and electro-indus music, you will be very likely
to enjoy this opus. I found nothing bad in this musical work.
So, I hope that Unhealthy Dreams will be able to convince with
a full length opus in future.
Kontakt:
www.unhealthy-dreams.com
www.myspace.com/unhealthydream
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Band
:
URFAUST
Title : Verräterischer,
Nichtswürdiger Geist
Material : full-length
cd
Label : Goatowarex
Year : 2005
Reviewed by : Iormungand
T.
Note : DDDDD
Here
is the 2nd full length from this Dutch band after ‘Geist
ist teufel’ and still no middle-ground :just extreme music.This
is the kind of record when you play it for the first time,either
you think it is utter garbage meant to be thrown away,or it is
a masterpiece album that will grow on you with several listenings.Well,let’s
say it for once :this is a masterpiece.Like I said,no middle-ground
:either you like it or you just hate it. The album opens with
a really dark piece mixing classical/orchestral and ambient music
lasting 13 minutes. The overall rhythm of the album is rather
slow,not mid-paced but slow riffing,sometimes simple but very
efficient.No demonstration here,just authenticity and rawness.To
my eyes,this release functions around a ‘no middle-ground’
system and the vocals are here to prove me right. As far as I’m
concerned,it is one of the best points of Urfaust.It alternates
between clean vocals,unusual for this style of music,very emphatic
and dramatic,and haunted high-pitched vocals that creates the
best of effects.The band is just losing it,on the edge of madness.Reject
or adhere. The band dares to experiment,they don’t seek
to please anyone else other than themselves and that is an evidence
when listening to track 5 ‘Verflucht das Blenden der Erscheinung’
: the riffing is mixed with industrial noises that blow your mind
straight away,as well as your speakers. Standout tracks are the
long intro standing as the calm before the storm,track 2 ‘Ragnarök
Mystiker’ being the storm,and track 5 which I told about.
A great album of deranged black/dark/ambient.Check out their first
album tooTheir side project Planet Aids (on the same label Goatowarex)
is also worth mentionning :they perform ultra-slow doom mixed
with ambient/noise influences. No middle-ground,extreme stuff,integrity
without compromise.
Contact : http://slingshot.to/goatowarex
Goatowarex : goatowarex@yahoo.com.au
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Band
: unleashed
Title : midvinterblot
Material : cd
Label
: spv
Year :
2006
Reviewed by : Coroner
zine
Note
: DDDDD
Three
years after the precedent album, « Unlished »releases
his new opus. With « Midvinterblot », the four swedish
men show us that they don’t have lessons to receive from
anybody. They’re affirmed once more under their own steam.
An excellent production, a divin layout, we understand that the
band didn’t change the strategy of communication. From the
start, we note the remarkable sound,all the instruments are in
harmony.The surprising melodies lead the tempos varied enough
throughout the 15 titles. The solos enrich the rhythmics with
wonder.Nothing is left with chance and there is no useless superfluous
! The deep voice of the charismatic singer accompanies the music
lead by battle rhythmics. Every title brings its personnality
to the album, the principal topic is the Scandinavian mythology.
A return to the source for the nostalgics. Unlished is and will
remain the Scandinavian reference… The epic go on, unlished
is far from the decadence …
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