Style: Atmospheric death metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: Lost in a sea of dreams
Thoughts: Delayed guitars, slow chugging riffs, deep distant vocals, eerie melodies... this is the key ingredients to atmospheric death metal. Tide Turns Eternal has all of this in spades.
Dream Unending may be one of the most appropriate band names I've heard in quite some time. The soundscapes painted on Tide Turns Eternal are indeed both dreamy and seem endless in the way that they are presented.
The melodies that are contained in Tide Turns Eternal sound both immediate, ever-present, and yet also distant and obscured. I love this effect. The melody will weave in and out like a wave and will ebb and flow just like the tide. It's a phenomenal effect, and it's used liberally throughout the album.
The main riffs are meaty and powerful, yet they have that wide open cavernous feel that adds endless amount of depth to the atmosphere. This mixes nearly perfectly with the vocals... which are deep, expansive and have a metric ton of reverb on them.
Put all of these individual components together and you have an album that has been stuck on my turntable for the better part of two days as of this writing. It's difficult for me to get into death metal these days, especially newer bands. Sometimes though there is a band that stands out, and Dream Unending is just that. They are a band that has reached beyond the genre boundaries to bring me over into its deep embrace. What a phenomenal debut album.
Written August 7th 2024
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