I know many bands that use emotions to hide flaws. Someone does it good. Someone does it bad. Nevertheless, some category of people can't be deceived.
My Rating: 65/100
It's difficult to describe Eastern band with help of Western standards. Initially, in the West, this band was described as: "Melodic Hardcore with Power Metal Influence", although guys only slightly strengthened melodic death metal. And really, my acquaintance with this band was very speedy and showy.
But now it's noticeable that composer took a more serious approach to his work. Now this band has a greater variety of methods for solving an artistic tasks. Now this is not an ordinary grinding at more than 200 bpm with screams of "something sublime." Nevertheless, composer's work remains at low level: fast-maded solutions still occupy most of this work.
We hear an interesting structure of vocal parts. Besides screaming on verse and clean on chorus, you can also hear narrative. Yes, this is not everywhere, but digression from standard pattern is always a good solution. I also feel a very strong vocalist. The only negative point here is strange sound of high notes.
Guitarist also performs more interesting parts. In previous album, the bet on guitar did't justify itself. Yes, playing fast scales is cool, but life does't end there. However, this has been fixed. It became noticeable that guitar parts were changed and now high skill of guitarist perfectly hides poor composer's work. Also we hear a keyboards. But parts of this instrument are fairly simple and appear only in one track.
Rhythm section is pretty boring. But if bassist plays very interesting parts, then drummer's parts are a continuous stream of boredom. In addition to standard (for the heavy metal) pattern, we hear the blast-beat and the "Booty Camp" beat. That's all. I don't want to say that this is something bad - drums keep overall structures well. But you could come up with something more interesting.
What can you say at the end? They are very talented musicians. Also in this album there is a wider view, in comparison with the work of 2015. But in the end we see just ordinary middle-rating metal band. Obviously, they lack something. Hiding flaws with strong emotions with slightly shocking details is all they thought of. Standard solutions can ruin excellent talent - this we saw with band Area51. This we also see now.
