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DIARY OF DREAMS - MENSCHFEIND (METROPOLIS) |
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Commensing with the addictive "Menschfeind", Diary of Dreams' CD of the same name is dense and dark but lush and beatiful. The title track is tightly woven with the textures perfectly layered. Ubergothy male vocals vye with growlier ones weaving through the instrumentals, which pulse with thick beats and massive somber melodies. "Haus der Stille" eschews the growly stuff but everything else is intact. The electronica is impenetrable but prettily so, beautiful like a last look in your compassionate killer's eyes, with a subtle piano line adding an organice influence. Etherea begins "Day-X-Relic", a somber piece that soon rolls in the oh-so-heady industrial beats in a slow groove guaranteed to steal your soul. Again, the mixture of electro and organic is irresistable. "Killers" also starts out quiet and unassuming with a single, horror movie soundtrackish piano piece that quickly is joined by hissing, soft vocals, that of a demon, perhaps, speaking from fuzzy textures and the soon to manifest industrio-tribal downtempo beats. Teutonic vox ensue. "Treibsand" feels lighter, in a way (instrumentally), yet no less dark. The electro melody feels more able of lifting into space rather than riding the deadly dreamful River Styx. "The Cage" continues the trend of crisper melodies with still-strong beats - less fuzz all around, I'd say, yet it's still present... the music is thick but not as dense maybe. "Pentaphobia" brings the darkness to a close with a number absolutely dripping with gothic atmoshpere. A strong addition to Metropolis' canon. -- review by Kristofer Upjohn
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