Band: Dark The Suns
Title: All Ends In Silence
Label: Firebox
Distribution: LSP Music
Release date: 27/04/2009
Review: CD

In 2005, Mikko Ojala started Dark The Suns as a solo-project, but when he moved towards the town of Jyväskylä (Finland) (home town of bands as Swallow The Sun, Soulfallen, Sotajumala, Ghost Brigade or Manufacturer’s Pride), Dark The Suns turned into a band. Dark The Suns sign to Firebox Records for two albums, and the first one, In Darkness Comes Beauty, gets released in 2007. After the release of a CD-single and a mini-album (The Sleeping Beauty and The Dead End, both in 2008), the band enters the studio again for the recording of the second full length. Therefore they entered their home studio and the well-known Watercastle Studio, home to bands as Uhrilehto,  Sunride, For Selena And Sin, SaraLee and Silentium.
The result, All Ends In Silence, goes mainly on à la The Dead End, combining melodic Dark / Doom Metal with elements from both Gothic and Death Metal. The tracks are carried by haunting keyboard lines and piano melodies and interact between atmospheric and heavy structures. At the same time, the songs are catchy and dreamy, and most of the time a modest energy pushes the whole into that recognizable sphere, characterising the Finnish melodic scene. Dark The Suns in a way do inject some own elements into the tracks, but the whole Doom / Death / Gothic / Dark-package sounds too clean to me, I’m afraid.
Duration: forty five minutes.

78/100

Ivan Tibos.