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/:: Artist :: Autumn's Dawn ::\
:: Album :: We Lost Our Hope Along the Way ::
:: Year :: 2025 ::
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:: . Genre :: Black Metal Source :: CD . ::
:: Label :: Avantgarde Music R.date :: 2025-08-23 ::
_::__ Cat.nr. :: AV514CD S.date :: 2025-03-28 __::_
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. Quality :: 44.1 kHz/Joint Stereo .
. Size :: 89.36 MB .
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:: 1. Infinity on Low 1:12 ::
:: 2. Ever Fading Light 7:42 ::
:: 3. Dream of Yesterday 6:18 ::
:: 4. Shades of Cold 5:14 ::
:: 5. Far from Home 6:38 ::
:: 6. Forever Yours 3:46 ::
:: 7. Unbroken Fragments 4:49 ::
:: 8. A Velvet Hue 7:19 ::
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:: From Bandcamp, ôExpanding on their roots in depressive rock and ::
:: black metal, AUTUMNÆs DAWN has created an album that is both ::
:: familiar and daringly new. With tracks that balance harrowing ::
:: intensity and moments of poignant beauty, ôWe Lost Our Hope ::
:: Along the Wayö explores themes of despair, loss, and fleeting ::
:: hope. The inclusion of 90s rock influences adds a nostalgic yet ::
:: modern dynamic, creating a rich and immersive listening ::
:: experience.ö The album has eight songs, and ôInfinity on Lowö ::
:: is first, and itÆs a short mood-setter. The mood is very ::
:: solemn, and the medium is piano. ::
:: ::
:: ôEver Fading Lightö is the first proper track. The riff is low ::
:: and slow, and I picture deep hues of grey. Harsh vocals sink ::
:: the song deeper into depressive tones, but the mood changes ::
:: with some guitar melody and then in come these rich clean vocal ::
:: harmonies. From there, itÆs a fight to the death between the ::
:: two moods with no clear winner. ôDream of Yesterdayö begins ::
:: with some clean vocals, harmonies and melodies, and it crawls ::
:: out the deep place the previous song occupied. Although it ::
:: remains melancholy, you can feel flickers of hope trying to ::
:: break through. ôShades of Goldö is darker and a bit more ::
:: introspective. It has hardened elements that are augmented with ::
:: moments of pure beauty, and the harsh and clean vocals wrestle ::
:: with one another throughout. ::
:: ::
:: ôFar from Homeö has endless shades of grey, like a succession ::
:: of cloudy or rainy days that just come one after another and ::
:: each day you wake up, nothing changes. The harsh vocals seem to ::
:: accentuate the frustration of so many of us in our current ::
:: lives. ôForever Yoursö is a shorter acoustic led piece that ::
:: gives you pause from the dull ache of the previous songs and ::
:: also offers you a branch of hope. ôUnbroken Fragmentsö has ::
:: steadier tones and seems to live in that world that is between ::
:: despair and promise. ItÆs an area that is safe for most people, ::
:: but it doesn't offer you the chance to test your dreams. ôA ::
:: Velvet Hueö closes the album. It features dark somber sounds ::
:: that are tempered with melodies at just the right times. ::
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:: This album is an odyssey through the quiet ache of nostalgia ::
:: and the fragile persistence of hope. It lingers in the tension, ::
:: in the muted silver hues of memory, where light struggles to ::
:: break through but never fully surrenders to the dark. ItÆs an ::
:: album for those who have stood at the crossroads of hope and ::
:: despair and found themselves unwilling to choose a direction. ::
:: It is for those who understand that some stories do not end ::
:: with triumph or tragedy, but simply continue, wavering in the ::
:: twilight. ::
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