At the mark the music slows down with spoken vocals "telling of lesson's learned", this section has a very killer riff and guitars. From around the - the music speeds up with the clean vocalist going slightly insane, "I must have seen it coming! The section goes on like this until about the 7 min mark where everything quiets down with thunder, rain and birds chirping over a keyboard synthesizer chordal section.
Another change lets the bass and drums play a very cool medium fast figure that lasts until around the 8 min mark. Very sublime acoustic guitar begins playing a nice figure that is doubled tracked with another acoustic guitar playing arpeggios that make this a very nice section.
Electric guitar takes a solo around the point with the acoustic guitar rejoining, most exquisite. Clean vocals begin singing around the mark about "morning sun beyond the clouds". At the mark the heavy early death metal section comes back with full band raging and a very distorted guitar playing a solo. Next section has alternating vocals styles of clean and death metal singing until about the 12 min mark where he talks about a "dungeon".
Death metal vocals at mark with a very cool riff section that is made for head banging is next. The heavy section mutates and slows a bit to where the drums roll and the music ands at Now this is one of the longer tracks on this cd and it goes by without much in the way of boring the listener as so much is going on all the time. The other long track is called "the sleep of restless hours" and lasts , which marks the second BIG highlight of the album.
Cinema in widescreen for the listener, where the epic songwriting reaches it's peak and crashes the album with an repeating instrumental part to an fitting end. Not forget the other, shorter songs, which are also excellent, with the beautiful half-ballad "a day by the lake" beeing my favourite out of them. The other tracks, called " All the tracks on the album are uniformly great and do take some listening to really hear and get just what is going on.
This is very good and challenging stuff - the progression for the future of metal. Or like the sticker on the digipack tells: An album in cinemascope and widescreen! It's only questionable how Disillusion will manage the follow-up, specially because the new album will be more straight forward, far less epic statements Vurtox in an interview on www.
The final product will be available in June or July this year. During that time I will stand alone in fires, onward to times of splendor! What helps make this album so forceful and stunning is the production. The sound is so densely packed with layers of carefully selected riffs, chords, etc. This is, simply put, a mammoth of a record, but a very expressionate mammoth. The music here avoids the typical extreme progressive metal standards in favor of this simpler, denser sound emotion-ridden sound, and this album consequently stands out as an intriguing, yet accessible and wholly unique.
Instead of trying to figure out crazy patterns on your repeated plays, you'll be trying to dig through layers of instrumentation for new parts you've never noticed before and seeing how they all fit together to create such a massive sound. And of course, with each listen you'll be taken upon an emotional journey as well. There are no particular standouts on this one; it is just a top to bottom treasure chest of an album.
It stimulates your senses and your emotions with every passage. Those are some of the thoughts that were rushing through my mind the first time I listened to this. Then later that day I listened to it again. Then I listened to it yet again. All in all, I listened to this album 3 times the day I got it. It's not really good based on technical playing, but rather the enormous layers one has to dig through to fully appreciate what is going on.
And trust me; there are a lot of deep layers in this music. Combine that with many, many layers of music and the walls of sound the good kind from a band like The Mars Volta and you're starting to get an idea for what Disillusion sounds like on this album. It's taken me about half a dozen listens to even begin to fully grasp how deep I can sink myself in this album. Saying that this is multilayered music might be an understatement.
Every time you listen to this, you're guaranteed to pick up several things in each song that you didn't notice the previous listen. Unlike many other bands found in this genre on PA, Disillusion is more than willing to write a few extended songs.
Both of those songs, the title track and The Sleep of Restless Hours, are standout tracks for me. Both have great intros that really build the songs up nicely, the big difference being that the title track opens with violin and the concluding track opens with fairly dark fretless bass.
Alone I Stand in Fires is the other standout track for me, and probably the overall heaviest on here, if for the massive amounts of sound thrown at you than for anything else. Vurtox a pretty interesting nickname has a very unique voice, balanced with a mix of clean vocals, which are more unique than his death growls. But he pulls both off very well. I have yet to hear the band's follow-up because of the skepticism I've heard about it. Or maybe it's because I can't stop listening to this album.
If you like Opeth, The Mars Volta, or want to hear a very unique and slightly more accessible album from this genre, this is a good one to try out. I'm hoping that their third release is as good as this one.
This definitely deserves 5 stars for its creativity. In general, this album is packed with everything one hopes for in the genre. The 3 principle musicians put out a massive amount of sound, exceptionally proficient and genuinely exciting to listen to.
Their songwriting is top notch , featuring clear and smart use of dynamics coupled with explosive intensity. Songs typically feature fast, heavy, aggressive melodies with valleys of soft passages and gentle vocals. A good example of this is in the opener, which begins with an enjoyable series of riffs and heavy hooks then dips suddenly into a dreamy atmosphere-- sounding very much like recent Anathema briefly.
The lengthy songs are, without exception, memorable and dramatic, not to mention brilliantly produced. There are deep layers of sound to explore here; excellent stuff! Bartel's guitar playing is frenetic; his riffing positively burns, but even more enjoyable is his dexterous melodies, which are so powerful and substantial to the song's presence-- it's amazing that he can sustain them.
He has a memorable sound which sets him apart from others in the genre. The other players do not disappoint either. Maluchska's drums explode with smart complexity-- he never over does it, but when he lays it on it sounds like the world is coming to an end! Vocals deserve special mention as well. Vurtox's voice is stellar in its variety and energy.
Typically, its an aggressive, melodic growl-- close to his singing voice but gravelly and hostile sounding His clean vocals present throughout are just well done, lending a welcomed change of sound to the band's heavy veneer. His choruses are very memorable and catchy, to the point of demanding the need to sing-along to Highly recommended to all metal fans! Now onto the songs.
And The Mirror Cracked - My personal favourite off the album, this one is simply perfect. It kicks off with a bang and provides one of the best intros in prog metal. I could literally listen to the choppy guitar harmony section all day long and not get remotely bored. We are then introduced to a number of different phases, including all three vocal styles including vocal harmony sections and a minute mellow section.
Disillusion is a German progressive metal band who seemed to tickle all those Opeth-loving fanboys in just the right place here. The shock value was high, yes, since normally debuts of this quality are few and very far between, and eventually bands who accomplish this end up driving themselves off a cliff with some half-assed follow up. This is Disillusion, and this is Back To Times Of Splendor , their debut album which just so happens to be pretty good.
Not really. At first glance, this album is so awesome it seems almost revolutionary for progressive metal. However, after numerous listens and constant critique of the same six songs, it hits you. This album is just plain good. Things begin to bug you which never did before, and the flaws of this album begin to grow more and more apparent.
The riffs which once sounded fresh and original now seem repetitive and tiresome. The vocals which seemed clean and well delivered now appear as annoying and awkward. However, the album still remains as something which is worth noting, a fine debut which has some of the most captivating moments in recent memory.
It represents everything which is so great about Back To Times Of Splendor , the beauty in simplicity. Sadly, that is where the interest in that songs begins, since the previous 15 minutes are a mess of riffs only a handful of them good and vocalist Andy Schmidt going back and forth between some really lackluster screamed vocals and his hit-or-miss clean vocals, not to mention whole minutes of wasted dead space which seems to be there just to fill time.
A song which you can call progressive and really mean it, the title track is the pinnacle of the album, with the slope sharply dropping off each end of this song. The chorus is catchy as hell and will probably make you smile with an awe-filled glee with each subsequent listen, the song tied together by an excellent guitar solo which simply puts the icing on the cake in terms of making this song a standout track. It manages to pull itself together at the end, making it a good song worth sticking around for, since the end is very powerful and heavy yet still manages to be unique and interesting.
There is really nothing left to say about this album. It is still certainly an album worth listening to, it is quite a rewarding experience in the end, but be careful. Take a few more dedicated listens to the entire album, pay attention to everything. It will either do one of two things, the first being absolutely nothing thus retaining your initial shock and awe , or it will reveal this album for what it objectively sounds like; a very good progressive metal album with some glaring flaws, keeping it so close yet so far away to the realm of classic prog albums.
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