French blackened doomsters Mourning Dawn release their new record with Aesthetic Death. Hailing from Paris area, these guys deliver their music for all darkened hearts and fiends out there for years. What can we expect here? There are six songs on this beautiful opus. Songs are longer in duration but they do not get boring at all. Music of Mourning Dawn can be described as doom metal with lots of death and black metal influences, so it is safe to say if I describe it as blackened doom metal. That means slower doom sombre guitar work, rolling drums, distorted bass and sorrow and melancholy underneath the brutality. Vocals vary between growling, screaming and sometimes clean vocals depending on the atmosphere in the song structures. There are also some excursions into fast almost blast beat drums and pure black death metal parts of the songs. Lyrically they deal with personal inner battles, death, life and catharsis. My personal favorites on this one are Never Too Old To Die and Conclusion. This is a superb record to gloom your day under a steel grey sky.
Two years after the release of their single “For All That’s Left”, Salzburg, Austria-based punk rockers Friday’s Spirit are back with a brand new single, titled “A Moment to Be Seen”, underlining their musical punk rock ancestry. The band comments: “After our last release “For All That’s Left”, we really didn’t believe in recording another session in 2020. However, as the Covid pandemic left us with no real choices, we eventually agreed on diving into our latest song material to create a new EP. The reason for this was simple: we wanted to keep the band alive and we wanted to be productive. “A Moment To Be Seen” is the first single taken from our upcoming EP “Skin And Bones”. It is one of our favorite tracks and we hope that people will like it as much as we do!” The single “A Moment To Be Seen” is out since April 1st 2021 on major streaming platforms and was released along with a lyric video available to watch on YouTube!
I At Last were already mentioned on the pages of this zine. This time, they release new e.p. with Inverse Records. These guys are from Finland and they bring metalcore since 2019 as they say on their official page. This record contains five songs. Now, I am not a big fan of metalcore, not my cup of tea so to say, but this one is very, very good. It is enough melodic to border with melodic death metal influences besides hardcore, even having a bit of blast beats in my personal favorite called Wake. This band also does something that I love, that is combining clean melodic singing with screaming and shouting like we are used to in hardcore and metalcore bands. I always fall for that and that is great in my opinion. Guitar work is epic, besides harsh metalcore riffs there are enough catchy and melodic hooks and riffs to make your day happy. Also, there is a dose of melancholy that only Finnish bands can provide in their music. This is a great record for all you fans of such music. I know I am more than satisfied.
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