Band:	Diary Of Dreams
Album:	Menschfeind
Style:	Darkwave
Release date:	2005
A review by:	KwonVerge

01. Menschfeind
02. Haus Der Stille
03. Day-X-Relic
04. Killers
05. Treibsand
06. The Cage
07. Pentaphobia

After the esoteric and claustrophobic masterpiece bearing the name "Nigredo", a real soulful testimony from the persona behind Diary Of Dreams, Adrian Hates, the "diary of dreams" opens once again, in a short period of time, and evokes sounds, visuals and voices, in similar ways as "Nigredo", under the name "Menschfeind".

The journey into nightmarish inner worlds keeps on flowing through electro-gothic soundscapes, keeping a touch of gothic rock in the structure of guitar passages, in search for your real self, of who you really are, and discover the wounds deep inside that make your existence collapse and bleed. Adrian Hates proves for one more time that he is one of the greatest personalities of the 90s gothic scene and not only, through his lyrics, his music and his utterly descriptive and deeply emotional interpretation, offering us seven brand new compositions of exceptionally played and expressed electro-gothic that won't disappoint the friends of the band since endless inspiration seems to have haunted the mastermind of the band from their very beginning.

The cover of the album prepares the listener of what to expect. Look carefully at the child with the bloodshot eyes, is he crying because he is alone or because of the hate he bears inside while being ready to devour your world? Open the booklet and see, does it remind you of Adrian Hates at a very young age? Check his white costume, adorned with blood and why is the boy wearing a cannibal's mask? And why he is being kept inside four walls? Is he waiting for you to face and search for him? By starring at the overall artwork you can see that Adrian Hates needed this inner journey to face his demons, to face the young boy with the cannibal's mask, to release the boy's hate and heal him as well as his soul.

Serene, yet nightmarish and bitter soundscapes, more imposing and emotionally escalating at times, affected and melancholic piano and keyboard melodies, nocturnal FX, esoteric lyrics and, for one more time, a dramatic interpretation by Adrian Hates are the elements that consist of the latest piece of Art of Diary Of Dreams, "Menschfeind", just another must-have album for the friends of the band, or even those that are willing to know them because every release of Diary Of Dreams is representative of their overall aesthetic, feeling and atmosphere, just different in the way they are expressed from album to album.

"Maybe one day, in my white room, someone remembers me. And maybe some day some creature might even cherish me?"