Divine:Zero - The Cold Asylum
On first impression, everything flows and plays really well on this release from this German melodic death metal band that formed just as the style was gaining major attention in the mainstream media. But engaging multiple plays just makes this stand out as one of those albums that you put on in the background. There are some great ideas, but I feel I’ve heard them before, the basis is a Gothenburg sounding melo-death metal album and there are a lot of bands historically involved in this particular game and there’s some unwanted influences from the millennium years too
There are some harder hitting tracks like ‘The Final Virus’ but few and far between and too rare to really appreciate the entire release. I am being a touch unfair here, if you love this style, you’ll like this don’t get me wrong, I just find it safe as it’s been done a thousand times over, especially the vocal from which is my main level of discomfort of this album. It’s clear to me that there is an effort to move into a harsher more thrashier spate of aggression, but the hang up’s and long 6 year break between this and their last release hasn’t helped matters, timing is everything, I think this has missed the boat, it doesn’t sound as fresh as more modern releases do or as perhaps it does live, I don’t know as I have not seen this band live, but I would be interested to hear that.
‘The Cold Asylum’ does have something missing, it sounds too similar and safe like a lot of other bands releases released quite some time ago, even though to be fair, it is played very well.
There are some harder hitting tracks like ‘The Final Virus’ but few and far between and too rare to really appreciate the entire release. I am being a touch unfair here, if you love this style, you’ll like this don’t get me wrong, I just find it safe as it’s been done a thousand times over, especially the vocal from which is my main level of discomfort of this album. It’s clear to me that there is an effort to move into a harsher more thrashier spate of aggression, but the hang up’s and long 6 year break between this and their last release hasn’t helped matters, timing is everything, I think this has missed the boat, it doesn’t sound as fresh as more modern releases do or as perhaps it does live, I don’t know as I have not seen this band live, but I would be interested to hear that.
‘The Cold Asylum’ does have something missing, it sounds too similar and safe like a lot of other bands releases released quite some time ago, even though to be fair, it is played very well.
- Bloodpounding
- The Sinister And The Sane
- Scardust
- Orison In Lead
- Deathroll Pentecost
- Awake
- Point Blank Elegy
- The Crimson Avenger
- The Final Virus
- Warfeast
Label: http://quality-steel.de
Reviewer: twansibon
Jan 31, 2015
Jan 31, 2015
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