Bloodway - Mapping The Moment With The Logic Of Dreams - review
Bloodway - Mapping The Moment With The Logic Of Dreams - review
Tracklist
01. Seeding Distance02. The Transfinite Castaway
03. Walking Past Near The Lighthouse
04. Mirror Twins
05. Early Glade Test Pilot
06. A Hallow Bridge [feat. Dr. Mikannibal]
07. Garden Of Diurnal Fractals
08. Mapping The Moment With The Logic Of Dreams
A review by
Auntie Sahar October 05, 2015
Bloodway label themselves as progressive black metal, although on this debut album of theirs, it can be difficult to gauge how valid that label really is. After the atmospheric intro track, with Mapping The Moment With The Logic Of Dreams, listeners are plunged into a world of bouncy, upbeat black metal, that appears to be focused more on a sense of groove and catchiness than on a progressive undertone with complex, detailed composition. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, and tracks like "The Transfinite Castaway" and "Walking Past Near The Lighthouse" certainly have some memorable riffs lurking within them that, in a way, help to make the music stick.
And yet, for quite a large portion of this album, there seems to be a general feeling of redundancy to the songwriting, a feeling that, although the music definitely doesn't go into full on "this is shit" territory, it could nonetheless afford to be a more stylistically diverse in both mood and composition. Aside from this "catchy and crunchy BM" approach that seems to form the core of Bloodway's sound, there are other good ideas at work here. Particularly interesting are the brief use of clean vocals ("Garden Of Diurnal Fractals"), the occasional guitar solo ("Mirror Twins"), and the atmospheric breaks that pop up here and there, especially on instrumental track "A Hallow Bridge." The problem, however, is that these little techniques occur too infrequently in the album to really latch onto, and although they can thus leave listeners wishing for a new, more immersive dimension to be added to the music, that's a wish that never really seems to be granted in full.
Mapping The Moment With The Logic Of Dreams certainly isn't a terrible album, but it ultimately suffers from the fact that the sounds Bloodway explore here that diverge from the main "catchy BM" sound weren't in greater abundance. Given Chioreanu's penchant for experimentation and overall strange, dreamy artwork, I was expecting this album to be a lot more on the weird, abstract side than it turned out to be, and for the most part I'd say that Bloodway played it safe here with their songwriting. This album is definitely a far cry from Dimmu Borgir or Cradle Of Filth-esque mainstream black metal, but it was still a little more tame than I would've liked it to be. There are good ideas at work here, but going into the future I think Chioreanu and company will need to work on developing them a lot farther if they're looking to mature and find a sound that can truly be called their own and no one else's.
Perhaps you'll think differently?
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 8 |
| Songwriting: | 6 |
| Originality: | 6 |
| Production: | 7 |
Written by Auntie Sahar | October 05, 2015
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Nice review
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I love the album title so may be intrigued enough to check it out, but your review is well-written and gives me a pretty accurate idea of the music already. Damn those albums with good ideas that don't come in telescope-distance of their potential.
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Posts: 5989 Written by Susan on 09.10.2015 at 21:39 Yeah, it's what made this release pretty disappointing, even though on the whole it's relatively decent. I'll definitely be paying close attention to these guys though, because I LOVE Chioreanu's artwork, so I really want to see him eventually get as daring and creative with his music as he is with his paintings
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