Style: Mid-paced black metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: Lifeless, boring, wasted potential
Thoughts: I don't know what happened. The previous album was so damn good... and now we get this...?
When we Are Forgotten sees Imperium Dekadenz double down on their mid paced atmospheric black metal. While the music still maintains a strong sense of atmosphere, much of the emotions behind it and almost more importantly the dynamics in the music have been all but stripped away.
The title track starts out promising enough, picking up largely where Dis Manibvs left off. It's a mid paced emotion laden piece that works in some tasteful cleans. That's about where the positives for the album end though. From here on out the band seems to be phoning it in by the numbers.
The highly emotionally charged songs of the precious album are largely gone. There will be flashes here and there, but the soul has left the body. The riffs are lifeless and don't evoke nearly the same level of emotions that I heard in the previous album. I don't know what happened, but whatever changes these guys made were not good.
I really hate writing stuff like this, I wanted to like this album so much... but I just could not bring myself to enjoy it. It's a damn shame and a waste of potential.
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