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Experimental and technical are probably the
two best words to describe Divinity
Destroyed. I don’t know what they consider themselves musically;
they are definitely outside any true genre. The band incorporates
progressive death, majestic power metal, doomy atmospheres and melodic
folk rock into this recording. A bunch of bands popped into my head
upon me hearing their first few tracks, including Pan-thy-monium,
Cynic, Rage, Haggard, Maudlin of the Well, but much more experimental.
Divinity Destroyed also reminds me of Mercenary, they take the death/power
metal cross to another direction. It may be a weird sound at first
because of the contrast in sounds, but the writing skill is quite
impressive, especially how they position elements together. I like
the keys and doom elements, acoustic guitars with electric layered,
and the death vocals enveloped together with clean vocals. As I said
earlier, its weird, but I think I like it. The only problem I have
with this is they can get too technical and experimental. It becomes
more of a “look what I can do thing” than music you can
constantly listen to. Basically, it turns into chaos. They need to
write more tracks like “Sweet Heresy” and “Threnody.”
Of the eight tracks and thirty-two minutes, those are definitely the
best tracks. There are a number of music styles they can do well,
but it’s hard to think on whom this will appeal to, probably
people into experimental metal. It’s at the very least worth
checking out. Rating: 80 |
