EBONYLAKE ”In Swathes of Brooding light”
United Kingdom – Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions
I must say that this album sounded strange at some moments when I heard it for the first time. I could say that it sounds like a mixture between Sigh and Tartaros with a bad production. The production here ruined everything on the album because most of the details are not so good to hear and the instruments drown each others here on this record. This is a shame because what I was able to hear here sounds well, but I was just able to hear it when I paid close attention to the music here. You can make no difference between the guitars and the bass here and that drums are above all. The drums sound sounds very bad, like it was recorded from far away and than the producer pulled the volume level up. I don’t know why did he do that and I hope for the band that they wont take him again for their next record. The songs here are good and the atmosphere here is sometimes very creepy. That is why I compared them to Sigh and Tartaros, because they have the speed and creepiness of Tartaros and at the same time the use some strange things in their music like the Japanese band Sigh. Most of their songs are fast ones with some speed changes in them. Unfortunately, do to the production I am not able to go deeper in this record because I know that I missed a lot of it.
6/10