Band: Failure
Album: Perfect Isolation [EP]
Genre: Post-Metal (listed as Depressive Black Metal)
Country: Honduras
Year: January 2013
I started off listening to this album yesterday and finished it a few minutes ago, not really noticing the transition in songs. It's composed of a single sound-scape, sometimes rasping into heavy riffs and melodic... screaming as typical DBM vocals go. But there's a melancholy current drifting beneath all of it and it returns to prominence during the rest of the songs, which are calm. Most songs flow into one another or have abrupt endings, but the flow isn't broken for long.
I chose this album because of the attractive cover art, which is strange and simple as far as the genre goes. The "pure" quality and thoughts of Honduras unveiled a strange artistic essence that I wanted to pry deeper into. But what happened as I listened was a question that's passed my mind many times now: How can this be called Metal? Granted the long tradition of DSBM and how the typical metal-riffs get toned down into a melancholy sound-scape, but there are entire sections of the album with just calm, electronic and drum pieces. It was just calming, atmospheric music. Maybe someday a scientific committee of metal heads will get together and label this kind of music as non-metal, just like Pluto was labelled as a "dwarf" planet rather than a planet proper. But for now we'll continue to attach the label "metal" to it. But despite it being metal or not metal, the album was a calming piece without anything to really gripe of complain about. I couldn't find anything especially special about it, other than providing a good 40 minutes of relaxing background music.
Rated 5/10 for Ambient Neutral, calming background music with Post-Metal gaze
As I've started to go back on the internet, especially to blogspots posting music (like the Dumah of so long ago), I've realize once again that there is simply a mess of too many bands and albums to focus on. Never having got a chance to hear most of them, I'm going to start picking albums from recent releases (since I don't really know anything about them) and listen to them one at a time in order to rate them in a sort of list. The number of albums being uploaded is far past casual browsing these days! So I'm going to have to start a system of going through them to see which ones are worth downloading.
Next up: Shadows of Tragedy Compilation
Draugadrottin - Where the Sea Gives Up Its Dead
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