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7.0
- Band:
Dissociation - Duration: 00:41:25
- Available from: 21/03/2025
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WillowTip Records
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Absolute debut, ready-by with the first full-length album, for the Ispano-American Dissociation duo, which publishes the present “To Lift the Veil” for WillowTip Records for WillowTip Records. And in a sense 'the veil is raised', with this first work, showing the unequivocal technical skills and the undoubted compositional ambitions of a training that is certainly not fear of highlighting structural and songwriting skills already outside the norm.
Daniel R. Flys and Gabriel Valcazar are musicians not on everyone's mouth, but still well known in certain extreme environment: Daniel, who in the dissociation is the multi-instrumentalist, the vocalist, the factotum and the only composer, plays in the Eternal Storm and for some time he has been the singer of the excellent prog-deathster Andorrani Persephone; Gabriel, on the other hand, sounds in the Wormd and English Cancer, and in the dissociations he plans the skins.
Having clarified this, in “to lift the veil” you will find a handful of imaginative and partly reckless songs, ascribable to the scene, however rather fragmented, progressive-techno-death metal, however played in hyper-modern sauce, compressed and using multiple solutions to synths, so much so that it is clearly highlighted atmospheric influencies. Dreamwave.
The songs, while ranging between a multiplicity of sensations and emotions, having as its common thread the ten creative fingers of the Spanish musician, denote an enviable compact compactness and will, aspect of the music of the dissociation that likes up to a certain point. In fact, paradoxically immersed in their diversity, it is however very difficult to have a song title imprint after having associated it with a sound passage or a well -defined song of song. The final effect, therefore, even after several repeated listening, is that of a logical and continuous musical flow, with numerous chips and atmospheric translations, which however escapes without leaving a tangible sign in the cerebral cortex, digging little in the inside, if not in the exact moment when you come to listen to a certain step which, of course, is formally perfect.
The tracklist, ultimately well designed and interesting, thus seems an abstract work frame, where it is difficult, while appreciating its artistic current, to recognize the meaning of the details, where everything is surprising without really playing. Too bad, because, as written, the album is composed and played great, it can be defined with 'heavy' certainty, also in the context of the progressive-death metal, a genre that has in its DNA is the most arousing brutality, and the defenseless and thin sweetness. Well, the dissociation are more brutal than sweet, and combine a sort of magic psychedelia – due to the cheeky use of the synths when arrangement – which gives a certain depth and unpredictability to the proposed compositions.
Compositions that, excluding the most content almost instrumental passage entitled “Evasion”, merge in the other, sharing ideas, accelerations, restarts, slowdowns and more or less chaotic sections in a crescendo of primordial but also futuristic chaos. Perhaps the “Existentialist”, “Zenosyne” and “The Lucifer Effect” Opener manage to settle on the podium in a hypothetical liking ranking, but we really find it hard to find a very specific singularity to be assigned to a specific trace.
Daniel R. Flys uses all the voices at his disposal, from clean and clear clean to an extreme and guttural growl, then giving vent to an endless sequence of guitar solutions, bass and keyboards; Valcazar, for his part, pushes and bolds behind his drumkit for a truly remarkable performance.
Above read a full seven, therefore, granted for the formal – cold and glacial beauty, we add – of “to lift the veil”, which for now, however, remains a slightly impersonal job and 'anonymous', not exactly able to transmit completely that it would propose to do. A good album, but unfinished from an emotional aspect. We await the dissociation later, to see if Daniel will be able to refine his wisdom of Songwriter. Until next time!
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
