The quintet as a whole has taken the five pieces to really compose an album, where other bands play different instruments, or even just play songs. Exanimate is one of those pieces of artwork where the whole is indeed greater than the sum of the parts.
Pick it up, wring it out, and you’ll have an ocean of feeling. This is one of those albums that simultaneously seems to last a lifetime and an instant, but you feel changed by listening.
Any more than three minutes of exposure could result in radiation poisoning…
It’s a unique blend that I kind of like.
The quartet draws you along the twisted pathways of a murky labyrinth of darkness. Much like their live performance, they provide the only light, only cutting marginally through the fog, and only where they want you to see.
Dawn Ray’d plays an atmospheric style that is too raw to be atmospheric black metal.
Intriguing. Bizarre. Lots of push-pull dynamic with changes that come out of nowhere, but seem organic.
…the band plays an intriguing mix of Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, and J.R.R. Tolkein.
Long winded stories aside, and blackened references duly noted, have at least some faith in me that this is good. Oh so good.
If blackened death that sounds as if it has taken a millennium to seep up through the very crust of the Earth sounds like your kind of thing, then I can highly recommend that you get your filthy muckraking hands upon this release.