Style: Keyboard driven black metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: Pretty standard black metal with keyboards mixed in.
Thoughts: What happened? What happened in the year between this bands outstanding demo's and the full length?
Dawn of the White Rune is the debut album for White Rune. It has all of the same elements that made the demo's so good: keyboards, fun beats, uncomplicated riffs. It's just missing the two main things from the previous releases: the fun and the quality.
These songs somehow sound more serious than anything on the demos, and that's a damn shame. By having the music be more serious the band lost the one thing that made me love them so much. The music still has the same basic ingredients but it's lost the soul of the music that I enjoyed so much.
That's not to say that this is bad per see... it's just ordinary. I miss the moments in the songs where everything comes together and makes me go "hell yeah!" Instead the songs meander about, simply content to exist.
The band showed so much promise with the two demos, and here it seems like all of that potential is squandered. It's not the production, that seems almost identical. It's not the keyboards, they are almost identical to the demos. No, the fault lies in the song writing and the execution... the band is taking this too seriously, at least from what I can tell.
Dawn of the White Rune is a bit of a disappointment based on the excellent demos that came before it. Hopefully with the follow up the band will realize what made those two demos so incredible and embrace it more. Until then, this full length will likely not get nearly as much play as the demos.
Written July 22nd 2024
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