THE PROPHET – Dying
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Russia is a big, very big country so naturally
it has a big metal scene with all sorts of bands. However, I think the majority
belongs to the extreme and atmospheric metal genres and I guess the climate
plays a pretty important role to mold and shape the mood and direction of the
musicians there. THE PROPHET are no exception to this rule and belong to what
we call melodic death metal. The band was formed approximately five years ago
and has released three full length works so far including this one so we can
say that they’ve already found their path, their “calling” and have settled as
to how exactly they want to sound. “Dying” is a fine sample of melodic death
metal, but not as this metal brand has ended up sounding nowadays… it has the
roughness of the early releases of this genre close to how AT THE GATES and
DARK TRANQUILLITY used to sound in their very first steps. This is not just it,
though, since THE PROPHET also have some thrash and melodic black metal tinges
thrown in to add variety and enrich the end result and in order to spice things
up even more they have some gloomy and sorrowful atmospheres surrounding the
songs. All in all, I think that “Dying” is a fine sample of melodic death metal
that will make your head bang and will bring back memories of the early and
best, according to me, era of the sound. If you like heaviness and
aggressiveness mixed with melancholy and depressive harmonies then THE PROPHET
are here to serve your needs…
Christine
Parastatidou
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