EDGE OF TIME (WEB) - Lithuania

DRASTIC
“Thieves of Kisses”
(Beyond…Prod.)
Polish/Italian band has recorded an album that can be ascribed to the quickly growing kind of emotional/avantgarde albums. The emotional concept of this album reminds of such groups as early Misanthrope, Therion, or a bit faster version of My Dying Bride. I think that the weakest point here is the male vocals, which don't express the poetic and melancholic vision that Drastic's music almost succeeded to transform. Wouldn't it be better to leave the female vocals only, they are much more romantic and expressive than the singing of Chris Buchman. The music of Drastic is highly influenced by electronic music, sometimes, it seems that keyboards play a more important role than traditional metal instruments. That's not bad, but songs become too synthetic and unnatural in places. It's clearly not a bad album for emotional/avantgarde metal with special poetic touch. (AO)

3,5/5

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