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Rating: After the sonic-commercial success of the acclaimed "The Gallery", the Swedes from Gothenburg were faced with the difficult task of maintaining the same levels... an impossible feat according to the majority of industry insiders.
In my opinion, however, they managed to maintain the fantastic melodic touch of the previous album, while adding a greater dose of brutality and immediacy. And this "Enter Suicidal Angels" served as a tester for the following, and rockier than ever "The Mind's I".
In the four tracks present, the formula doesn't change but is enriched by the concreteness that in "The Gallery" was slightly set aside in favor of highly refined histrionic technicalities (Punish My Heaven, The Dividing Line). Perhaps that radiant royalty in the riffs and harmonies is missing, but the impact is favored, proving to be lethal.
"Zodijackyl Light" is an assault delivered by an almost Slayer-like riffing with more basic drumming and vocals privileging tones close to a very dark guttural (still always shrieky...). The central slowdown is excellent, and the melodies of the twin solos are sharp.
"Razorfever" is Maiden-esque in its soul but scratchy in its development (At the Gates again..). Stanne, a true gladiator of the microphone, rends and makes "suffer" conferring a ferocious fury to the piece while the guitar-drum battle creates sparks as usual. An elegant acoustic break and a winning solo close it.
The return to the sounds of the previous album is felt in "Shadowlit Facade" aided by intricate arrangements and the choice of leads of rare beauty. A track that allows you to dream sweetly but hits fiercely and abrasively in the accelerations. "Archetype" is a sound madness difficult to explain and place. Wild house-techno-trance loops chase each other, garnished with the singer's sampled screams. Really strange, it remains nonetheless a curious episode that will not be repeated or proposed so blatantly in the future.
In conclusion, a fine seven-inch where Dark Tranquillity demonstrated a greater dose of power and immediacy compared to the past, while standing out among the masses for their truly unique and brilliant harmony choices.
Tracklist and Lyrics
01 Zodijackyl Light (03:59)
Crown the impulse that deliberately fall
Defeat in spiritless action
Isolation - burn the greenwood
Order of the vertical path
Descendent
Crawl in the remnants of one thousand lies
Restaging
Torching a world that was left behind
Zodiackyl light
Cross the sharpest void
Deride the embers of his faith
The bringer that on million horses ride
Waiting for the call within the spark of sin
Ever reminiscent of the coming of storm
Can you see the cosmic face in which disorder lies
Burning of opression
The inventor
Is the killing hand
Be that of the darkest sin
To frustrate hope and love
I shall not be blinded
I shall not be forced
Resistance
Feasting on debris from celestical wars
Burning in the sky
Beyond the realm of time
Sequence of the nucleus
The glowing dust in flight
Zodijackal light
And they ride, they ride
The drama takes the lead
The beast of heaven their guide
Racing through the vastness
Constellation disarray
That darkness could not have existed
That bares no witness to the light
Sweet endless
Perpetually pronge through interior vaults
So seamless
Joints of time cannot shackle the beast
Zodijackyl light
02 Razorfever (03:15)
Born of laughter
strangled by sin
No remorse
mistreat the soul again
No features
the blur of things denied
No return
the cross to bear is my own
Just one sip and life returns
Razorfever
The pollution of your narrow perception
Read into the lines of men's work
Degeneration: let the truth be known
Numb the pain with the liquid of fire
Razorfever burns
Born a desperation's child
admist the last descent
Fierce as that of angel's wrath
to lay the soul to rest
Just one sip
Just one more
Just one
and so my world can be restored.
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