Released Via earMusic
Genre: Groove/Industrial Metal
Track Listing:
1. Epliogue
2. The Sunset Curse
3. Half Damn Life
4. Eclipsed
5. Born Twice
6. The Loss
7. Sorcery
8. O, Inverted World
9. The Dawn
10. Morning Light
Just
when grand opening of ‘Epilogue’
makes you think that this album is going to explode into a huge stomper of a
song, it becomes a let-down to hear that there is something a little soulless
about ‘The Sunset Curse’. For all
it’s industrial elements, it doesn’t deliver the right punch in the face that
such a sound usually does. The symphonic elements are alright, if a little
uninspiring, but the low-end guitar notes don’t sit high enough in the mix to
give the song the ability to curb-stomp you. The same thing applies to ‘Half Damn Life’. Vocally, the shouts
are decent enough, though they lack the kind of characteristics needed to embed
the songs in your mind, whilst the clean vocals are like a cheese grater to the
ears. The songs are presented in a tight enough manner, but there is just something
missing. It also becomes apparent that Dagoba are a bit of a one-trick pony by
the time ‘Eclipsed’ kicks in. Every
song on the record has not just a similar feel, but the exact same feel, which truly stunts the growth of the record. We
all have the bands from whom we want to hear a specific sound, but a band like
Dagoba, who cite such a wide range of musical influences from classical music
right to black, death and power metal, should be putting these tools to use in
order to create an album with a lot more dynamic capabilities than this. Poor
songwriting and a lack of imagination is the downfall here. Hopefully, Dagoba
can do better next time.
Rating: 2/10
Links: https://www.facebook.com/dagoba13
http://www.ear-music.net/en/label/
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