Band:	Divinity Destroyed
Album:	Eden In Ashes
Style:	Progressive metal
Release date:	2003

01. Sweet Heresy
02. Threnody
03. Borealis
04. Nothing But A Shadow
05. Aurora
06. Empty The Sky
07. Crestfallen
08. Disciple

Continuing my special day with Divinity Destroyed, is time to review their second full length "Eden In Ashes" once again, this guys impressed me with the very cool artwork and general great layout of the Cd. Once thing I can't stop mentioning are the inside photos of the band, keyboardist Emily Heerema is really beautiful, too sad that she's no longer in the band, she have been replaced by his brother, I suspect that the Herrema family have a keyboards store or some family business of that nature. Other pic that left me speechless was the one of Tom Ward, who appears with a piece of clothing around his head (I forgot how It's named in English damn), anyway is that piece of clothing that most rappers wear, so we have Tom Ward á la 50 Cent in this photo, word homie!

Jokes apart, the new album of Divinity Destroyed leaves me somewhat unsatisfied, another time, the term "World Metal" appears again, but since these guys know that I'm a little dumb, they wrote to me the whole World Metal concept to me, and frankly, I find it quite interesting, but in this particular case badly executed.

World Metal means mixing various folk elements of different musical expression of many countries and cultures, and mix 'em with some Progressive Metal, notice that I'm not talking about Folk Metal, is less over the top, and the folk influences in this case, don't take the lead in the mix.

And that's one of my problems with the Cd, even though is a excellent album I've been trying to understand the whole World Metal concept, luckily Mark Ward gave some hints on a written paper, but still is difficult to identify the folk (or world) elements in the songs since they're very subtle, and as I said before, never take the lead, with the sole exception of "Nothing But a Shadow" where the whole intro is a traditional Japanese tune, other recognizable world elements are the ragtime piano in "Sweet Heresy" and the Native American influenced vocal melodies in "Threnody" (which is my favorite song in the album), but I would not have noticed those if I hadn't received the hints from Mark, see what I mean?

This is an excellent Progressive Metal album with intricate passage and some Death Metal influences, please don't try to understand the "World Metal" part, it may ruin the whole experience, surely it didn't ruined mine, but hell they gave me a lot of extra work, I want a t-shirt for my sweat!