Yet a band I haven't used that much time on in the past. This is the third release from this German progressive experimenting band, and the album actually seems like a reasonable place to start exploring the universe of Dark Suns.
Musical progression and shifting atmospheres are 2 things we are served a lot of on "Grave Human Genuine" and 2 of the things that makes the album very listenable. The band is good at composing music, even though they are taking us through a good variety of different metal subgenres, they never loose focus on the good and coherent song, yet a thing making the album good. Whether it's fast and progressive, dark and gloomy or nice and quiet, the coherence is present and the listener is never lost.
Atmospherically Dark Suns takes us on quite a ride as well, the band captures the different moments very well, and it is very easy to get sucked into the music, when one is blasting it through headphones. The production of the album is well made too, a dark and thick sound, positioning the instruments well, and with a lot of air for the different instruments and features, it never becomes crowded or too complex, a nice resolution.
Dark Suns has made a good and diverse album that can take on a good deal of listening, without one growing tired of it. The band uses a lot of small details all the time, and has a good deal of exciting moments in their song writing that makes them stand out from other bands, a well played and exciting album. Though the band has been touring heavily with Pain Of Salvation and has used ex-Pain Of Salvation bass man Gildenlˆw to record the bass on this album, and the influence becomes a bit too obvious once in a while, that's kind of a shame.
Dawn Of Demise, taste the band name on the tip of your tongue, do you like the taste? The taste of blood and molestation, the taste of purebred death metal, the taste of an upcoming band that once again will put Silkeborg on the Danish death metal map.
The members of the band worship Suffocation, which death metal fan doesnít?, and that can be heard on the music, though without Dawn Of Demise being a clone of the before mentioned band, they just draw their healthy part of inspiration from the NY deathstars. Brutal, fast paced, though still well varied, technical death metal of the evil kind is what we get with ìHate Takes Its Formî. The evil mostly personified by the vicious, haunted and wicked growls from below the bowels of hell, delivered by Scott Jensen, a great and very enthusiastic performance by the growler.
Musical the album is a quite a tour de force as well, dark and energetic guitar riffs, great breaks and shredding leads, a deep and rumbling bass, always making menace below the low tuned guitar attack. Well written tracks compiled brutally well, packed in a suiting dark and brutal production showing off the important factors of this type of death metal. If Dawn Of Demise can keep up the pace and good song writing skills, theyíll soon blast off to foreign shores and make havoc there. Dawn Of Demise should be walking towards a great future, this disc shows a great band, and those who have seen them on stage, know that they deliver the goods there as well, so letís get a quick album and a nice tour and letís see things kick off!!!
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AUTHOR: Nocturnal DK
A Danish metalhead on the way to become old, enjoys most types of metal, though brutality and darkness are mostly preferred, and too modern takes on metal are not always positively looked upon. Have been writing about metal for 10 years in own and at other publications as Fishcomcollective, Ancient Ceremonies, Northern Shadows and now Corazine and the upcoming Terror Propaganda (might have forgotten a few, come and kick my arse!).