Band:	Morning After
Album:	Beneath The Real
Style:	Gothic metal
Release date:	2003
A review by:	Undercraft

01. Free To Heal
02. Day Of The Moon
03. Heavy Waves
04. Asthenia
05. Hell In Heaven
06. Beneath The Real
07. Trains In Dust
08. Burning Time
09. Let Myself Flow
10. Instability
11. Outro

Morning After is a peculiar band from Greece, a country that possesses beautiful beaches, great landscapes, and to the surprise of many, the first place in the latest edition of the Eurocup. But in difference of their cup winning team, Morning After are only a 2 piece band, conformed by the Iliopylos brothers, and a session drummer.

The band mixes various elements from different styles, like Rock, Metal, and Melancholic music. The result may be shocking at first, mostly if you're thinking this is a Melodeath album or something like that. The vocals are melancholic and remind me a little of Vincent Cavanagh from British act Anathema, they have also some Death Metal vocals here and there, giving special texture to the music.

The music itself is not very heavy, mostly it's Rock with some Metal influences, and a lot of catchy tunes, the vocals are the melancholic element here. To be perfectly honest with you, when I gave this album the first chance, I didn't like at all, so, after a few months I decided to give it a second chance and played it as background music. In those background spins, I discovered the song "Asthenia", song that captivated me with its catchy chorus and great hooks, now I had a reason to play this album: track N° 4.

While playing this album a little more often I discovered other great tunes like the melancholic "Hell In Heaven" the catchy "Heavy Waves" the Rocker title track "Beneath The Real" and the experimental (yet heavy) "Burning Time".
When I found myself humming the songs while I was walking on the streets, I realized I loved this album, we had a rough start, but after a few spins, the album totally grew on me.

Morning After are a band with a wide array of influences that's for sure, and like any talented painter, they succeed on etching them into the canvas, thus, creating a very peculiar album like I said in the beginning. Beneath The Real is not an album for square-minded Metalheads, so if you consider yourself as one of them, proceed carefully, if you, like me, enjoy life and the different forms and shapes that may take, get this album.