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RELEASE DATE: 2008-07-06
LABEL: Independent Release
TRACKLIST:
01. Building My Weakness
02. Century
03. The Grand Memory
04. Slaughter Falls
05. Descend
06. Fragile Nation
07. Deceived Again
08. Departure
09. Valhalla
10. Landscape
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Where Dreams Come To Die
Red Descending
THE REVIEW:
Melodic death metal is not very popular or a common phenomenon in the Australian metal scene. Red Descending makes an exception to this with its brand new debut album “Where Dreams Come To Die”. Red Descending has been around about five years now and during that time they´ve released two promotional videos on DVD, one called “Slaughter Falls” in 2004 and another “Century” in 2007. Except mastering the band made all mixing and production by themselves.
“Where Dreams Come to Die” is really interesting and pleasant musical adventure. Their music is beautiful and relaxing and yet heavy. Starting from the first song “Building My Weakness” to the very last piece “Landscape”, this music kept its grip. Keyboards have a big role in their music and from time to time I felt a little bit saturated with them but they do serve well the entity. After a while I got used to it and even learned to like them. Symphony element is really strong but it is executed professionally. I love their singer. He has an ability to sound like true Norwegian black metal vocalist with his tense growling.
Red Descending is really unknown metal act. Last.fm showed only 70 played when I got my hands on this album. I bet and hope this is about to change. Their latest album is fascinating mixture between melodic death metal and symphony (black) metal. In many occasions it reminds me of Dimmu Borgir especially their latest album, but then it strikes back and starts to sound a bit like folk/viking or even an opera metal with ethereal female vocals. It´s really hard to figure out that you´re listening to an Australian band here, since Scandinavian influences are so evident. This is only a good thing since Red Descending is able to add new spices to the soup. “Where Dreams Come to Die” is a good melodic death/black metal album and worth checking if any aforementioned genres with truly fresh touch attracts. I highly recommend this album.
POSTED BY: Phage on 2008-09-17
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