(EchO) - Devoid Of Illusions - review
(EchO) - Devoid Of Illusions - review
Tracklist
01. Intro02. Summoning The Crimson Soul
03. Unforgiven March
04. The Coldest Land
05. Internal Morphosis
06. Omnivoid
07. Disclaiming My Faullts
08. Once Was A Man
09. Sounds From Out Of Space
A review by
BitterCOld May 15, 2012
Devoid Of Illusions is partially based in the same death doom formula we are all familiar with. There are plenty of heavy, punishing riffs with guttural vocals, and keyboards providing the melodic leads. The band also employs extended periods of clean vocals over sparse, clean toned guitar - almost a post-rock feeling at times, proggish at others. Maybe traces of goth and psychedelic extreme doom as well. Sure, why not?
I guess all of these elements have been employed separately by other acts, or mixed, but they seem particularly well employed (EchO). The doom aspects are good, but these extended chill periods really provide a counterbalance to help enhance that dooming feeling. They are engaging, draw you in, and lull you in, rope-a-dope style, before doom slams home.
In addition to more chill moments, the band also can go off the deep end the other way as well. There are passages at, gasp, triple digit BPM? as well as flat out terrifying extreme crushing psychedelia, perhaps the result of having Greg Chandler of Esoteric mixing and mastering the album.
So despite meandering all over the metal map, these Italians still pull all the elements together and work out the song dynamics remarkably well.
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 8 |
| Songwriting: | 7 |
| Originality: | 7 |
| Production: | 8 |
Written on 15.05.2012 by
Written on 15.05.2012 by
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A very enjoyable album indeed. Had to check what I scored it and it was 78/100
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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Doesn't sound like something I'd want to concern myself with, but the review did a good job letting me know what it would sound like.
---- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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Posts: 15360 Written by [user id=4365] on 15.05.2012 at 19:06 depends entirely on the track. try the closer. that's the most esoteric of the lot. first listen through i thought i had mistagged it. (only about 50% of the albums on their server are tagged, the others might have song titles, leaving you to sort through five releases to see what is what.) it's probably not your thing as a whole, at times it wasn't mine, but it is well enough done and crafted that i had to give respect for that.
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I'd listen some of their tracks from "Omnivoid" last month back on Spotify and was thinking of dropping their new album anytime soon. I lost the touch and Baam! this came in. Will surely check this out soon.
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Lovely album... the different styles and atmospheres are very well mixed together... thanks Greg! Highly recommended. 9 for me.
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