Terrific band, but only on this album. Ignore the debut, which is mostly sub-par, with a rather bad production and even the chick sound off-tune in some songs. This is where they matured and made their quantum leap. Whoever wants to hear what Oceans of Slumber would have been have they not went for a melodic sound, check this out. An explosion of extreme, quasi-innovative metal, with great female harsh and clean vocals. Like all more complex albums, this one needs a few spins to properly asses. For example, Befallen was the track I considered the least impressive at first listen. But after a few more spins, it became my favorite track. A very promising band. Too bad there are so many useless crap ones which makes it harder to find the really brilliant ones. Lucky they had a great and smexy vocalist (who is Asian at origin also) which gives them more exposure, otherwise I might have not even heard of them.

A fantastic overlooked gem. This album has everything I love about metal with fantastic production. More innovation in the songwriting department would help make it even better, but as it stands the songs are memorable and powerful.

8.8/10 for me - 'Illuminated' and 'Befallen' are the standout songs. 'Crack Of Light' is also great. 'Old Ones' is the weakest song.

Looking forward to their next album which I believe they are working on right now.

Written by Hyamendacil1450 on 05.01.2021 at 13:30

properly asses

I sincerely apologise for my immaturity.