Band: A Premonition
Album: Forgotten Dreams
Genre: Black/Doom Metal
Country: Argentina
Year: 2013
Just from the album cover,
we get a mysterious figure not unlike Mozart's father from "Amadeus".
This image, obscured by a screen with droplets on it, is indeed somewhat
reminiscent of a forgotten dream, the words of which are almost unnoticeable in
the art's grey.
In the first track we
begin with a melancholy opener, a loose focus gazing nowhere in particular,
just in an empty, grey world. The stasis of a rain, or waiting in an abandoned
city. The stasis of a dream, the quiet, the waiting. Then a simple riff begins
to lead tension along a "premonition", the beginning of something
within the dream, something deeper. The metal guitars start, melancholy yet at
the same time ripping through the second-marks and the dreamscape with
ultimate finality, taking a suitable pace for DSBM. The fusion of guitars and
drums work very well, and the song's dynamism goes against the droning of
riffs, such as with the band Trist for example. We very much feel a
progression, or a movement going quickly across the song, even if we want to
listen to these riffs again and again. This is how music progression should be
done.
I'm really impressed that A
Premonition can release so much music in a short amount of time, and the
quality present in previous albums is not compromised. Unlike others, some of
the songs have English titles. This album is eight tracks long, and stands out
by having slow low-energy moments of reflection between dynamic DSBM-like
intervals. A lot less vocals on this album, which is a wise decision, since it
really allows the isolated feeling to arise. I would say this is perfect for
brooding on obscure subject matters in the privacy of one's own mind, rather
than the kind of "open" and confrontational feelings of the past two
albums that are reviewed here. No, this album takes place inside the head, and
in the innumerable worlds therein, seething in the madness of yet forgotten
dreamscapes, turning, churning, reflecting, oscillating... All of the
progressing qualities of A Premonition never leave. Post-metal sounds
are absent, just ambiance and black metal. Ends on an acoustic-style note.
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