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/"
Track Listings (11) - Disc #1