Australian melodic death metallers Be'lakor have been hard at work recording their new album and now posted an important update on their Facebook page. Their upcoming fourth album, and follow-up to Of Breath And Bone, will be their first concept album and feature 8 songs. Slowly, we begin to know more about what's coming.
Latest update: "Album update: Excited to reveal that we've been working on our first concept album! On previous releases, our lyrics have often told stories in isolation. The eight songs on our new album come together to form a single story arc."
The band has been sharing videos and pics of the recordings on their Instagram. Here are a few:
I just didn't see what was so special about it. The musicianship is there, the personality not so much. I'll give it another try I guess. Slim pickin's right now anyways.
EDIT: Ohmahgerd...first song and already ruthlessly bored. Time has not helped to change my impression so far.
I just didn't see what was so special about it. The musicianship is there, the personality not so much. I'll give it another try I guess. Slim pickin's right now anyways.
EDIT: Ohmahgerd...first song and already ruthlessly bored. Time has not helped to change my impression so far.
Well - given that Be'lakor is far from generic in that no melodeath band comes close to their unique style - it must just not be for you. What did you think of their previous albums?
Well - given that Be'lakor is far from generic in that no melodeath band comes close to their unique style - it must just not be for you. What did you think of their previous albums?
Didn't care for them. I have a similarly unpopular opinion about Insomnium.
I think the key to liking this band (and Insomnium for that matter) is getting onto their wavelength - getting 'into' their gloomy-dark soundscape. Once you're in there the rhythms will penetrate you deeper, if you can't make it in there you're going to have a bad time.
This is a band that seriously needs to understand the concept of dynamics.
I hope you don't mean dynamics as per its musical definition, because then you'd be very wrong. I'm listening through Stone's Reach right now and there are dynamics changes everywhere.
Yes I meant dynamics as variation in the music and having peaks and trough etc etc.
Here's what dynamics in music exactly means. "The Dream and the Waking", from 6:39 to the end. Guitars go from piano to forte, and the whole thing is obviously a crescendo.
I could've picked an example from "Abeyance", from "In Parting". The list goes on.
Yeah honestly all it takes is a quick listen to this band and it is clear that they not only "understand" but frequently make use of dynamics. His comment was just an utterly wrong, pseudo-intellectual assertion based off of no evidence.
Yes I meant dynamics as variation in the music and having peaks and trough etc etc.
Here's what dynamics in music exactly means. "The Dream and the Waking", from 6:39 to the end. Guitars go from piano to forte, and the whole thing is obviously a crescendo.
I could've picked an example from "Abeyance", from "In Parting". The list goes on.
Sorry, but I think that crescendo sounds so uninspired and lazily written as possible, it almost cannot be called a crescendo. I wanted to like Be'lakor as sometimes the word "progressive" is slapped on to them but find it hard because stuff like this. Take Opeth's Baying of the Hounds for example, that rise from 3:25 to 6:25 takes many layers and different sort of passages to reach its peak, rather than a 3-step program as displayed in your example. The sort of "enter acoustic/clean guitar and explode into growls" can be found in any melodeath record, and that's why I've always been disappointed with Be'lakor.