Happy Days
Save Yourself
Talheim Records
This Texas based band has been releasing music since 2007. To this day, they released quite an amount of demos, splits and 5 full length albums. Since a leader of the band, A. Morbid: vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards and Maelstrom (drums) had both been absent for a while in writing a new music, I think it`s maybe a good idea to remind about the band by reviewing their last album Save Yourself from 2016.
Mind that Happy Days`s music orientation is nothing like the band`s name and it`s actually something quite in opposite to what they do with their songs.
Misanthropy, desolation, loneliness, isolation is what strikes you instantly when getting into atmosphere of the album. It`s raw sounding album (music and production), high pitched guitars and vocals go along essentially like in a classic Scandinavian black metal after rebirth of this musical genre ( I always think it`s after releasing A Blaze In The Northern Sky by Dark Throne). So you have this grim and longing guitar passages bounding darkness around cold riffs, you have mix of old school one-pedal drumming with some intense kick drums (nothing of modern sound). Songs also have many rolling sequences on drums and I could imagine this album with drum-machine but with real drummer you can spot a difference in plus, like immediately which make this album just sound a hell-better, all the way through. Screeching vocals dominated the album but A. Morbid also sings with his clean voice and music still does not sound any less gloomily, just a bit more ravishing.
I find those many slow, grim fragments in music most interesting, but guitar leads and keyboard embrace that depressive and nocturnal side of their music.
What`s not so good...Answering to my guts I think the album “feels” a bit too long, few blast beats make music sound harsher but not better (slow and a bit faster drumming do). It doesn't stop me from liking the most songs of the record for their atmosphere which also should fulfil your nights with black metal music. I wish you Happy Days then (with this band`s name, seems that they just messing around and teasing with the listeners thoughts which is kind of funny...).
Mind that Happy Days`s music orientation is nothing like the band`s name and it`s actually something quite in opposite to what they do with their songs.
Misanthropy, desolation, loneliness, isolation is what strikes you instantly when getting into atmosphere of the album. It`s raw sounding album (music and production), high pitched guitars and vocals go along essentially like in a classic Scandinavian black metal after rebirth of this musical genre ( I always think it`s after releasing A Blaze In The Northern Sky by Dark Throne). So you have this grim and longing guitar passages bounding darkness around cold riffs, you have mix of old school one-pedal drumming with some intense kick drums (nothing of modern sound). Songs also have many rolling sequences on drums and I could imagine this album with drum-machine but with real drummer you can spot a difference in plus, like immediately which make this album just sound a hell-better, all the way through. Screeching vocals dominated the album but A. Morbid also sings with his clean voice and music still does not sound any less gloomily, just a bit more ravishing.
I find those many slow, grim fragments in music most interesting, but guitar leads and keyboard embrace that depressive and nocturnal side of their music.
What`s not so good...Answering to my guts I think the album “feels” a bit too long, few blast beats make music sound harsher but not better (slow and a bit faster drumming do). It doesn't stop me from liking the most songs of the record for their atmosphere which also should fulfil your nights with black metal music. I wish you Happy Days then (with this band`s name, seems that they just messing around and teasing with the listeners thoughts which is kind of funny...).
Tracklist:
1. Dwell In The Insanity
2. Die To Forget
3. Serenity Theft
4. Will We Make It?
5. One Can Dream
6. Let Me In...
7. Malice Callous
8. Freedom Of Silence
9. Your Starchild
10. Save Yourself
1. Dwell In The Insanity
2. Die To Forget
3. Serenity Theft
4. Will We Make It?
5. One Can Dream
6. Let Me In...
7. Malice Callous
8. Freedom Of Silence
9. Your Starchild
10. Save Yourself
Review by Slawek Migacz
Added: 05.08.2020
Added: 05.08.2020
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