Style: Raw black metal, dungeon synth, modern classical
Thoughts: The intro to this album is so good. It's a small classical piece that revolves around piano and accompanying instruments. It's beautifully composed and gave me so much hope for the album... then the actual album starts.
Death... My Faithful Bride is... not a good album. There are moments where it is good, such as the aforementioned intro, but when the metal is included everything just kind of falls apart. The chords used for the guitars are as basic as can be and all the song writing prowess of the intro is just thrown out the window.
The piano repeats ad nauseam. The accompanying instruments don't have nearly the character that they could have from the standard set by the intro. The vocals are kind of half growled half howled but not in any way that has any sort of redeeming quality to it. I feel like this has been a bait and switch.
There is a good album in here somewhere. There are brief moments where things do come together and the music actually does well. Those moments are few and far between though. This is one of those projects where I feel like it would be so much better if the metal was dropped and the artist focused exclusively on modern classical/dungeon synth instead. That is clearly their song writing strength.
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