Dewfall - V.I.T.R.I.O.L. - review
Dewfall - V.I.T.R.I.O.L. - review
Tracklist
01. Free Entrance To Hell02. Forever Ghost
03. Skeleton's Rising
04. In The Shadow Of Ragnarok
05. Black Solitude
06. Ravens Of The Frost
07. The Secret Passage
08. The Serpent's Cave
09. Comfort Of A Night Rain
A review by
Bas March 04, 2009
As opposed to the bands I mentioned at the beginning of this review, DewFall hardly use keyboard at all on this album, instead their power metal is mainly guitar based with a lot of tasty riffs and some well-placed solos and has a bit of an "oldschool spirit". This music is then infused with a couple of death metal riffs and drumming parts spread over the album, some growls and grunts and even a few black metal screams. Apart from the bassist/extreme vocalist the rhythm guitarist also does some clean singing, usually he sings in a medium range (some parts are comparable to Joacim Cans from Hammerfall) but he's also capable of some higher parts. For his age (he's 17) his singing is quite solid, but it would be even better if he could get some more emotion into his clean parts.
Generally this certainly isn't a perfect album though. For one some of the long songs could have been shorter, also there's a sever lack of catchy choruses - this is biggest point of criticism - and the songs don't all live up to the same quality. Some songs like Black Solitude are just awesome, but songs like Free Entrance To Hell (the opening song) and Skeletons Rising (this song has a rather lame chorus unfortunately) really bring the average down again.
Yet despite these points of criticism V.I.T.R.I.O.L. is a very good album. There's a couple of really great riffs around, the songwriting is solid, the music is rich in variation and there are a lot of different influences to explore. The musicians know hot to play and the whole CD is pretty cool to listen to - even though I didn't like the album on first listen, but a second and third spin quickly changed my mind! I think that they aren't quite there yet, this being their first album after all, but I'm definitely keeping my eyes and ears open for a second DewFall release. In the future these guys might just put out an amazing extreme power metal record.
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 8 |
| Songwriting: | 8 |
| Originality: | 9 |
| Production: | 7 |
Written by Bas | March 04, 2009
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Wintersun is great in any way. you just have to listen to it. and i think you haven't.
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Posts: 8902 Written by Arymetall on 04.03.2009 at 21:51 Just because someone finds a band dull, doesn't mean they have not listened to it. Gosh! Why is it when someone makes a comment about how they don't like someone else's favorite band, all the the fanboys have to pounce on them!? I find Wintersun and CoB very, very boring! BRING IT ON!
---- (space for rent)
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Wintersun just takes a lot of "Time" to get into... sorry, I had to post this.
---- 00:40 - Doomface Mikael Akerfeldt doesn't age like humans do.
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And there was me thinking this was a DewFall review... did Wintersun creep in here and hijak another band's review!? The bastards! Never heard of Dewfall; liked the review; going to check them out.
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So, maybe Dewfall is real cool after all, but reading you guys makes me think I'll give Wintersun a prior shot.
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Nice review, will have to check them out ps. wintersun and CoB are REALY boring to listen to
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Just for the sake of saying "wintersun sucks," I think I have to check this album out since Kalmah were mentioned and the oldschool spirit. Yeah!
---- Savor what you feel and what you see Things that may not seem important now But may be tomorrow R.I.P. Chuck Schuldiner Satan was a Backstreet Boy
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Lol @Wintersun fanboys. And I thought Metallica fanboys were horrible.
---- My account on other musical pages: http://www.last.fm/user/Pozito/ http://rateyourmusic.com/~Talvi
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Posts: 5591 Written by Arymetall on 04.03.2009 at 21:51 wanna bet? Written by Dane Train on 04.03.2009 at 23:02 you're a brave man Dane  Written by Talvi on 05.03.2009 at 12:05 don't forget, it can always be worse, doesnt matter what it's about 
---- BAS - Beautifully Accented Sexiness
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Posts: 1937 Quote: Hmmm, hot play... I'm intrigued
---- -Lily
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Posts: 537 Written by [user id=1909] on 05.03.2009 at 17:57 clues are overrated i got evidence and experience instead
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Posts: 13427 Written by [user id=1909] on 06.03.2009 at 00:53 oh please, don't play the experience card. cause if you do, i'll knock you off the board with a Marcel card (stats: thirty years of experience, total metalfan, wintersun hater). your turn. but seriously, the band at hand here is actually DewFall...
---- SLUDGE. DOOM. DEATH. Wait, what?  "The reason I'm running for president is because I can't be Bruce Springsteen." - Barack Obama
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Posts: 5591 Written by Lucas on 06.03.2009 at 01:12 thanks
---- BAS - Beautifully Accented Sexiness
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I reviewed this album for an Italian Webzine and I have to agree with you. I hope this band will become famous in the near future. btw I love Wintersun XD
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