Band:	Dawn On Sedna
Album:	Our Sky Has Changed
Style:	Post-metal
Release date:	May 23, 2016
A review by:	BitterCOld

01. Our Sky Has Changed
02. Amniotic Sea
03. The Rest
04. Adlivun Rituals
05. Descending Path
06. Five Degrees On The Sky Line
07. Flat Circle Time

Dawn On Sedna are a post-metal act hailing from Viareggio, Tuscany, Italy. So I'm going to take the easy way out and use food metaphors to describe the album. Lazy on my part? Sure. But Italian food is great, and so is this album.

Ok, so now I've lured you in with food. Good. Might as well go with it, as Our Sky Has Changed is post metal, and I've always found post metal difficult to describe.

A fine Italian meal comes spread over antipasto, primo (first course), secondo (second course), the contorno, and the dulce. And, of course, vino. Lots of vino. The antipasti are appetizers, something to nibble on before the meal begins, the primo is the pasta (or soup or rice course), the secondo is the meat/protein of the meal, accompanied by the contorno, some veggies. And you have the dulce, the sweet, to end the meal. Along with vino.

So what does this have to do with Dawn On Sedna, aside from the obvious Italian connection?

Surprisingly a lot considering how cheesy a review format/approach this is.

Just like the aforementioned meal is created by incorporating so many components, so is a good post metal album. Our Sky Has Changed does a great job of mixing in the quiet bits that set the table for songs, the pasta, which provides the bedrock of the melodic portion of the record. The secondo is the slab of raw meat that comprises the explosive METAL portions of the music. The contorno/veg being the harsh vocals. Sometimes you get the veggies you enjoy and it pairs wonderfully. And sometimes, for me, anyways, you get some vegetable that just rubs you the wrong way and you wish your meal was served without. Looking at you, eggplant. This case, nice work. The dulces are the calm, sweet bits that help offset the heavier food and the vino, will, the vino gives you a nice tingle while stringing the whole thing together.

While the meal comes out one course at a time, Our Sky Has Changed does a great job navigating these sonic flavors, weaving them up and down, in and out throughout the songs and record. It's not just the standard melody build up to melody* (*Now with distortion pedal!), the music varies as it goes.

I've listened to the record probably three to four times a week all month, continued to enjoy it each pass through despite not once coming up with a better way to word my appreciation without culinary metaphors. So don't hold the band accountable for my struggles.

If you like post metal, I highly recommend checking it out. Conveniently you can do so [url= https://dawnonsedna.bandcamp.com/album/our-sky-has-changed]via bandcamp.[/url]