The Chant - This Is The World We Know - review
The Chant - This Is The World We Know - review
Tracklist
01. New Reality02. Reflected
03. November 1987
04. The Black Ascension
05. Will You Follow
06. Safe World
07. Common Price
08. Armored Man
09. Relativity
A review by
Thryce December 31, 2010
Recorded: Drop Hammer Studios/Sound Track Studios/South Curve Studios, Finland 2009
Label: Full Metal Music
Total Running Time: 48:19
You can really hear The Chant live in a Nordic country where it freezes most of the time. Shimmers of dark winter melancholy and flashes of the calming warmth of a fireplace keep seeping into these songs from all sides. This is music made to move you.
Using glossy and straightforward rock music with some metal hiccups, The Chant easily finds the gateway into suomi metal. Catchy rock hooks are woven together by soothing guitar lines and compelling piano parts. In that event, This Is The World We Know - an album dealing with mental isolation btw - fosters a special kind of atmosphere that is tranquil as well as dolorous.
The real icing on the cake though, is the ever soulful voice of Ilpo Paasela; a voice that almost literally pours melancholy. His somber vocals are mostly clean, without ever sounding whiny, at times backed up with some blistering screams. Paasela 's warm and strong vocals couldn't be more fitting for this kind of mellow music, giving the album even more depth and vigor.
The Chant is perhaps still a little too radio rock-driven to come anywhere close to that acclaimed Ghost Brigade-like melancholic mood. Nonetheless This Is The World We Know rolls in as a good-to-great album with a clean and streamlined touch, that will undoubtedly turn a lot of heads, with its gloomy atmosphere warming the cockles of many hearts.
Comments
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I was pleasantly surprised by this band. Not really metal but high quality music. Thanks for the great review.
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I'm really intrigued now.
---- "A life all mine Is what I choose At the end of my days" --The Gathering "A Life All Mine" from Souvenirs
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Thanks for the reminder. was meaning to check it out
---- loves 小巫
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Tried it but didn't really like it.
---- 7.0 means the album is good
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Slinky666
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I listen to this album and all I have to say: Indeed it is a great piece of work. The album speaks for itself. 
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