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Aes Dana - La chasse sauvage

An interesting effort - 71%

larsen, April 7th, 2008

This release is the first album of the French band Aes Dana, that is playing folk black metal in a way that could be described for many reasons as being non-conventional. The fact of playing a music that is different than the rest of the releases of the same genre is at the same time a force and a weakness.

The real force of Aes Dana consists on the band's ability to bring something new. A lot of folk black metal bands include folk elements (with whistle parts) in a melodic mid tempo black metal that is in the worst cases overflowed by boring keyboard parts and unrecognizable guitar riffs. As a folk black metal band Aes Dana uses whistle and acoustic parts too, but there are plenty of rhythmic variations in their music, so that the tempo isn't boring, although they seem to have a preference for violence and quick parts. The difference between the slow melodic parts and the rest of time is through that way bigger. All musicians play quite good and the sound level between the instruments is pretty good. These guys really know their instruments and the compositions are interesting, with a dark and mysterious atmosphere.

However, despite the good musical level and original compositions, there is an evident weakness in this release, a weakness that you'll find in a lot of cds: At the end of the album, you have the impression that you've repeated all the time the same song. The titles are too similar, the song conception and structure too and in spite of all the qualities I've mentioned before, there are almost no variations between the songs, so that you'll be bored in less than 20 minutes. As I said before, the melodies are often dark and well-played, but none of them are great enough to blow your mind.

In conclusion, this is a quite good beginning, these guys have interesting ideas, they were able to bring a new view in the world of folk black metal and they have a good level that should allow them to correct the weakness of this cd : the lack of variations between the songs.