Dies Irae
Naive
GrimmDistribution/Exhumed Records
Naive is another re-release of original 2001 album from iconic Mexican band Dies Irae. It`s surely well deserved reminder from the past about the band and still, this album basically stands out to these days. Album features Gus G. (Firewind, Ozzy Osbourne) and Marios Iliopoulos as the special guests of the album, who both did backing vocals and guitar solos in tracks Ice In Dawn and Blurred.
Dies Irae flew over to Sweden to record this album and I am sure that it has had to be life experience for those guys because album sounds wonderful, mixes and mastering of songs is a masterpiece in engineering and song writing is stunning.
As a fact that album was all done in Sweden, Naive earned its “Swedish haunting” in sound signature but music is also not far away from bands like Dark Tranquillity and At The Gates which, by many people are well known by so called Gothenburg death metal style (in contradiction to death metal sound of bands like Entombed, Dismember etc). Even if Dies Irae is not European band I could not really confuse them with these Swedish bands that much because, despite similar music approach they all have taken for making their own music, Dies Irae do their own thing with Naive songs too. They just made it work for them under the Scandinavian`s morning star sky which you can mainly hear by a specific sound of this album that is rather nothing I heard from Central America.
Screaming vocalist may sounds just like many other melodic death metal singers, for most of time but, in song like Slow Slow the band did some excellent, clean vocals, expressed with emotional depth. This album is characterized by a very good, progressive bass lines, a bit like on Cynic or Obscura albums. That's why melodic death metal performed by Dies Irae sounds much better; song writing is more complex, music horizons reaches beyond typical death metal song writing, while feeling of music hits emotional strings inside you. Melodic guitar work, practically in every song, has sort of melancholy and energy attached to the riffs of the band that make this album shines its glory on listeners.
This entire album is splendid, song and production wise. My interest in the band is growing every minute I hear their songs. They seem to have gained experience while in process of recording this album because track by track all I hear is like a band`s transformation that is getting better than at the beginning of the album.
If you`d call Dies Irae a “Swedish” sounding” metal band, I would not agree more with this opinion. The only difference is that it`s the best band from Mexico I have heard so far.
Dies Irae flew over to Sweden to record this album and I am sure that it has had to be life experience for those guys because album sounds wonderful, mixes and mastering of songs is a masterpiece in engineering and song writing is stunning.
As a fact that album was all done in Sweden, Naive earned its “Swedish haunting” in sound signature but music is also not far away from bands like Dark Tranquillity and At The Gates which, by many people are well known by so called Gothenburg death metal style (in contradiction to death metal sound of bands like Entombed, Dismember etc). Even if Dies Irae is not European band I could not really confuse them with these Swedish bands that much because, despite similar music approach they all have taken for making their own music, Dies Irae do their own thing with Naive songs too. They just made it work for them under the Scandinavian`s morning star sky which you can mainly hear by a specific sound of this album that is rather nothing I heard from Central America.
Screaming vocalist may sounds just like many other melodic death metal singers, for most of time but, in song like Slow Slow the band did some excellent, clean vocals, expressed with emotional depth. This album is characterized by a very good, progressive bass lines, a bit like on Cynic or Obscura albums. That's why melodic death metal performed by Dies Irae sounds much better; song writing is more complex, music horizons reaches beyond typical death metal song writing, while feeling of music hits emotional strings inside you. Melodic guitar work, practically in every song, has sort of melancholy and energy attached to the riffs of the band that make this album shines its glory on listeners.
This entire album is splendid, song and production wise. My interest in the band is growing every minute I hear their songs. They seem to have gained experience while in process of recording this album because track by track all I hear is like a band`s transformation that is getting better than at the beginning of the album.
If you`d call Dies Irae a “Swedish” sounding” metal band, I would not agree more with this opinion. The only difference is that it`s the best band from Mexico I have heard so far.
Tracklist:
1 Sculpted In Stone
2 Ice In Dawn
3 Blurred
4 Parallel Universe 1
5 Shattered Mockery
6 Slow Slow
7 In Porous Verve
8 Shades
9 Parallel Universe 2
Bonus Track:
10 Parallel Universe 1 (Live)
1 Sculpted In Stone
2 Ice In Dawn
3 Blurred
4 Parallel Universe 1
5 Shattered Mockery
6 Slow Slow
7 In Porous Verve
8 Shades
9 Parallel Universe 2
Bonus Track:
10 Parallel Universe 1 (Live)
Review by Slawek Migacz
Added: 08.05.2020
Added: 08.05.2020
