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Artist : Dying Sun
Album : Transcendence
Genre : Metal
Year : 2014
Label : n/a
Cat# : n/a
Source : WEB/FLAC
Bitrate : 249Kbps
Size : 90,96 MB
Runtime : 51:03 min
URL : http://dyingsun.bandcamp.com/album/transcendence
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01. Generating the Sphere 09:50
02. The Night Sky 05:57
03. Dead 04:34
04. The Weight of Time 05:11
05. Stillness 06:42
06. Of Failing Flesh 08:11
07. We Don't Belong Here 01:29
08. Transcendence (Leaving) 09:09
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Maryland's Dying Sun are a new prospect on our radars with
their debut full-length Transcendence after two EPs released
down through the years. Occupying a middle road between post
metal and atmospheric doom, Dying Sun are a band totally
immersed in melancholy.
The drab and dreary artwork with its cold dark shades of grey
and black and an ominous red sun in the distance serves as a
perfect mood setter for the gloomy aural climes held within
its eight expansive tracks.
When discussing this vein of metal Neurosis are a band that
often pop up but such is their influence, it's difficult not
to hear that influence in practice here with Dying Sun.
There's a great deal of heft in the riffs with dense and
lethargic guitars ruling the order but there is also an
affecting emotional might within each of these compositions.
The vocals, which dance from different tones and timbres,
carry this emotive feel whether it's with bellowing roars or
melancholic croons, or even the strange industrial-tinged moan
that can be heard on different moments throughout the record.
Despite these disparate elements, Dying Sun maintain a very
solid flow for the record without it ever becoming disjointed.
This is mostly down to the guitars and ambient keyboard that
stick to a consistent theme throughout. The rhythm is a hazy
miasma of dense guitars while spectral, almost ghostly clean
leads gloss over, creating an altogether entrancing
atmosphere.
For the most part the band has avoided any of the clichΘs like
obvious crescendos that you could see coming from a mile away.
"Of Failing Flesh" bucks this trend with swelling verses that
eventually give way to uncharacteristically searing guitars
that wither out into harrowing piano-led verses that are
reminiscent of Anathema, save for the wretched vocals.
"We Don't Belong" is a semi-acoustic song that strips the
Dying Sun MO down to its core but only as a brief reprieve and
breather before the title track, the curtain call. Brooding,
lethargic riffing and desperate sounding vocals are a mainstay
of this track. The final composition epitomises everything
that makes this record interesting. Slow crawling doom riffs
come avalanching in, like something Mourning Beloveth would
have written in practice one day, while utterly agonising
vocals ring out with the rather appropriate lyrics "the last
breath I take" being particularly harrowing and thus
encapsulating Transcendence's tone and mood perfectly but it's
counteracted by a gorgeously melodic but no less morose lead
guitar riff.
Dying Sun have sculpted out a rather impressive first album
with Transcendence. Sadly, it may fall under the radar for
many but this is certainly a band worth the 51 minutes that
the album runs.
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