Soilwork's recipe taken far from the genre's boundaries...
Pablosa | Buenos Aires, Capital Federal Argentina | 12/13/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
""Fragments of D-Generation" is the second release of this italian quartet, featuring Bjorn Strid (Soilwork, Terror 2000) in vocals...The comparisons are obvious...When you listen to DM with your eyes closed, it's Soilwork...Not only becasue of the vocals, but the sound in general as well as the production...But I will instantly change Soilwork's last three albums "Natural Born Chaos", "Figure Number Five" and "Stabbing the Drama" for this excellent "Fragments of D-Generation"...
DM took Soilwork's recipe, and shaped it in it's own way...I mean, the guitars and drum sound is the same, the vocals are the same, and the atmosphere is practically the same...so, what is the real difference???...Everything in this album has a distinctive touch of quality..Like if they worked out every guitar riff, drum beat, and keyboard note much harder, trying to create something new...And there lies the difference...The riffs sound heavier in general, the keyboards have a very cool touch adding a lot of feeling to the atmospheres, not only as a company, or to make it sound catchy. To the point that, despite the obvious comparison to Soilwork, the album sounds new, fresh and original...
DM made the effort that Soilwork didn't in their last releases...Like if DM were saying to Soilwork "This is the way you should have done it!!!!!!"...
You'll find in "Fragments..." different speeds and tempos...
Like the brutal "Common State of Inner Violence", which seems more a TERROR 2000 song, very fast and aggressive without losing their touch of quality...The semi fast "Quicksand Symmetry" or the funny "A mirror behind"...The solos are more melodic, the keyboard arrangements have more quality and presence...
In any way you may look at it, if you feel disappointed with Soilwork's latest releases this "Fragments of D-Generation" will ease your pain...Anyway, an album I strongly recommend to any metal fan..."
Typical melodic death metal with touches
Jeremiah Dube | Randolph, VT | 05/24/2006
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Here we have Disarmonia Mundi with quite and experimental piece of work at hand. With Speed Strid, singer of Soilwork on the crew, you hear abundant, beautiful, and pitch perfect melodic choruses that soar through the debris of layered riffs. Among which are a landscape of cascading intricacies that mingle well within the harsh realm of melodic death metal. "Oceangrave" for example begins with a techno blast beat and heavy dampenned chords to create a lively texture thats topped by ambient keyboard work. Among the rest of the tracks, minimal hooks are laid on one another ranging from sounds of rock to electronica(see opening track) Purists may cry foul when hearing such an experimental group, and would compare this album to a modern day in flames record(i.e. Reroute to Remain), although more true and open minded metalers will look at the album as a whole for what drives this turbulent monster-and that is of course the musicianship put into the record. Although the group itself isnt looked over as much more than a side project of Speeds,(easily recognized from the overly polished singing) Disarmonia Mundi project an array of brilliant talent and if all proves well...we will see their ambitions taken another step further. As an artist and musician myself, this is a masterful opus to own, nothing overly special, yet still enjoyable and experimental, and not to mention much better than the Americanized Soilwork of our modern day.
up the irons to Disarmonia Mundi\m/"
If you like Soilwork and Swedish Metal...
D. Summers | Atlanta, GA | 07/29/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I'm so happy that this album was released. I've contemplated purchasing it for years now, but the cheapest I ever found it available was $25.00+. This album is absolutely awesome. I'm not going to say it's a masterpiece, but these days this is about as good as it comes. If you like earlier Soilwork and any Swedish "Melodic" Metal, then you'll love this album. I'm a huge supported of "Speed" (Soilwork) and am glad to see he's got this other project going. Definitely worth the $8.99 for download! Highly recommended!!!"
Track Listings (10) - Disc #1
