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6.5
- Band:
Dawn of Ouroboros - Duration: 00:44:44
- Available since: 07/03/2025
- Label:
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Prosthetic Records
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Activate from 2018 and with two full-lengths behind them, the Californians Dawn of Ouroboros are back with the third work, “BiolumineScence”, a group that can as much excited as to leave Freddini the listeners on duty. A sound turmoil, the one that proposes the band led by guitarist-tastierist and main composer Tony Thomas, already in the botanists (in turn very peculiar band, and one whose shadow-conceptual and sound-seems to hover also on this project): the proposed genre is a very pulled prog metal, almost lambing a sort of black metal although not properly black.
The names that can come to mind (and not only for the female song by gritty Chelsea Murphy) are those of Oathbreaker, Defheaven, all perhaps with a more 'classically' vein progressive than the names mentioned, but the context of belonging does not seem so distant. The songs of the Dawn of Ouroboros vary continuously, among accelerations, blast-beat in apnea, transformed slowdowns, enveloping melodies (“Slipping Burgundy”). In short, a nice mix of styles and expressive need, but so enforceable that they are also a little misleading.
Among the thousand notes that we hear, we struggle to remain attached to a riff, we have so many stimuli put all together that then filtering something lasting becomes difficult. Of course, the good moments are there: the aforementioned “Slipping Burgundy” has a beginning that seems to want to cradle sweetly, flirting with a jazz imagination that grows in intensity, almost remembering the metropolitan sounds of the most nocturnal White Ward. And not for nothing, this song remains in mind more than others, together with “Static Repedition”, with a guitar that seems to want to go straight and be the column of the backbone and not part of a sound carpet, as happens instead at other times. The production does not help, it is crystal clear but without a real dynamic, a little flat, and it must be said that in some moments the band is lost a little too much in its stylistic evolutions, not finding exactly how to get to the point.
In short, the Dawn of Ouroboros know how to play but have a bit of emotions, if not those generated by a chaotic, violent incede, which can hit and please, but which does not hold the comparison with a few more reflective times, such as the closing one (“Mournful Ambine”), inspired by voice and plan that shows how the idea of musicality does not miss the four. Of course, that if in an extreme Metal album we remain in mind, between everything, the ballad of piano and voice, we are not talking about a disc for the more traditionalists, perhaps, but rather for the most curious.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
