Genre: Dark Ambient, Doom
Label: Kaotoxin Records
I was introduced to this band through Apoch (yeah! THAT Apoch from Apochs.net!) a couple of weeks ago and haven't been able to properly shake the memory of the intense ride that today's review subject sent me on. I mean, look at the band's name: Eye Of Solitude. It elicits thoughts of barren lands, emptiness and abandonment. The perfect moniker for the band responsible for the creation of Dear Insanity, a ballsy effort consisting of a single, forty-nine minute track that mixes a dark ambient base with segments of hammering doom.
The opening to Dear Insanity is pretty much how most dark ambient experiments begin: a spacey, airy mesh of static and dull tones. But after about a minute, the horizon expands and a wide open sound emerges out of nowhere. That airy atmosphere that you were settling into becomes progressively claustrophobic and the world begins to decay and crumble around you as the minutes pass by...
And then, at the 8:29 mark, the walls of my tiny, fragile world were ripped open as the Earth began to shake and the sky boiled away to reveal a blood red infinity that loomed over me like the great perching Doomthulhu! Eye Of Solitude break away from the ambient drones and finally say 'Hello' to insanity! HEAVY chords slowly riff their way across the cosmically irradiated soundscape to the pounding of a post-apocalyptic beat. It's the soundtrack to the deathmarch of the mentally afflicted, at this point. (A congested conga line I would undoubtedly find myself in... oh well. At least the tunes are badass!)
Daniel Neagoe's vocals range from a barely audible whisper, to a very high in the mix clean, to a vicious shriek at strategic points during this EP. The mixing proves to be only slightly problematic once or twice and it mainly has to do with the vocals overpowering everything else. But that's just me pissin' on about nothing since the rest of the forty-eight some odd minutes are a flawless work of art.
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