Type: Full-length
Label: Total Holocaust Records
Country: Denmark
Genre: Black Metal/Ambient
-written by NausikaDalazBlindaz of metal-archives.com
BEGINS WELL BUT LOSES AGGRESSION AND BITE
A dirgey and solemn funereal doom black metal offering from this delightfully named project of three Danish musicians, this album starts off well on a very solid sonic footing with tremolo guitars pounding out repetitive riff after repetitive riff at a steady pace but as the recording progresses and passes through passages of keyboard-based tones and melodies, it starts to lose its edge and aggression and the vokills, especially the male ones, seem much less menacing than they should be. (Quite possibly because the person singing the childish lyrics isn't the same person who wrote them.) The sound is quite good but the slow pace dulls the impact and power of the music and the singing gets lost in the long drawn-out riffs.
I am really ambivalent about having female vokills on this kind of depressive BM; sure, Demonica has a lovely sweet voice but it's at odds with music that should be misanthropic and seething with animosity towards life. Some of the keyboard passages don't seem original and I keep thinking I've heard them elsewhere on a long-forgotten Swedish goth industrial CD from way back when, when I used to buy a whole load of Cold Meat Industry label releases. Bands and one-man projects specialising in themes self-hate and despair and American bands in particular have cornered this part of the BM spectrum very well - which does not say a great deal that's positive about life in the US of A these days - so this Danish group has its work cut out with regard to developing a more sophisticated and thoughtful lyrical approach and injecting a lot more hate and venom to compensate for the pace. When music is slow as this is, you risk losing momentum and listeners' attention.
Oh well, if Make a Change ... Kill Yourself don't succeed in their chosen field, they could always do work for an advertising agency whose clients are in the self-help publishing industry.
50/100
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