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(review) Dyoxidon – ‘The Decaying Multiverse’

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Dyoxidon is hailing from United States and this is third full length opus. This one man band is in fact spawn of one m_psymorgh and as you might have guessed it, music is different than your average black or death metal band. Dyoxidon delivers armageddon. Point. It delivers apocalyptic vision of man’s future, where machines and meat are equal parts of one, where coldness of space and coldness of surgical steel became prevalent in relation to blood, muscle and meat. This is dark album, pretty chaotic in some song parts, reminding me of harsher version of Norwegian Mysticum, or Italian Aborym, yet lot harsher and even colder. Songs are pretty long and this relentlessness continues grinding all in its path. But, I can hear some melancholic, almost symphonic synth melody coming through the cold machine sound delivering almost cry for help or sigh of conquered humanity for past times, when all was much more simple and better for them. But I love this machine inferno, I love this chaos, I love the synthesis of man and machine and this album is a killer. My personal favorites are ‘Extinction(Errata)’, ‘Parasite Communion’ and ‘Spectravore’.

8/10

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(review) Dawn of Ashes – Scars of the Broken

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I am so happy when I discover new bands that I like and learn to love their music, the same as I was back in the days of tape trading and waiting for weeks for your new music to arrive via snail mail and sometimes discovering your new favorites through such tapes. Now, it is easier, especially when you run a webzine for seventh year now, but the principle is still the same, scratch beneath the surface of underground and find what you like yourself and learn everyday new stuff in our beloved extreme music scene. So, I am so happy that I discovered LA´s Dawn of Ashes. But I am at the same time a little bit ashamed. Why? Because I found out late about them and they have been in the scene for more than twenty years now, delivering their punches and this is their ninth full length opus. This one contains 12 songs, some being intro and intermezzos between the maelstorm of Hellish sadomasochistic rites, darkened atmosphere, Satanic rituals, sex, death, life all of three being interlinked in one undividable whole of us as puny humans on this planet.

Dawn of Ashes play a mixture of industrial ebm metal, with symphonic black metal parts here and there, some gothic metal songwriting thrown in and whole lot of atmospheric darkness. I always respect and love the use of samples and Dawn of Ashes use samples so clever and so fantastic that it made goosebumps on my skin while listening to this opus. Electronic is great in adaptation with guitar parts, thundering drums, keyboards and superb vocals. The latter are special and it is so amazing to hear singer Kristof Bathory changing his voice from black metal croaking to screaming, back to gothic spoken word, some singing and altering back to industrial almost robotic voice. If I must compare this band to some it would be Kovenant from Norway in Animatronic period, but Dawn of Ashes sound richer and superb, also it would be a more upgraded black metal version of Combichrist. My personal favorites are Bane of Your Existence, Heart Beats Cold and Scars of the Broken. My recommendation for you, check this one out!

9/10