| CD REVIEW Dioramic |
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Band : Dioramic When I first listened to the CD by these Kaizerslautern based German trio, I was somewhat amazed at the somewhat diverse elements they draw from. On the one side, I heard Death Metal (grunts, hysteric screams) and Emo-like (clean, man!) voices, and the Progressive Metal had alternating overtones of Nu-Metal and Hardcore, with a certain underlaying complexity, and although the music is overall rather melodic, the musicians can certainly be said to be quite above average in technical abilities! This speaks both in the occasional calmer moments, as in the more overall explosiveness. As well as in those occasional moments when a keyboard line (piano, atmospherics, subtle “synthetic” additions) suddenly comes through the whole. Definitely stuff that had been thought-through before being executed, that’s for sure! Turns out the band, comprised of singer/ guitarist Arkadi Zaslavski, his drumming brother Anton, and bassist/ second singer Jochen Müller (fortified on stage by keyboardist Max Nicklas, a friend of the band whom also helps out with design) has been active since 2002, and has no need to be categorized in any specific genre at all, self-titling the style they developed as “Art Core” rather than use such (for them) awkward terms as New Prog, Alternative, or Post-Hardcore! It kinda took the band all this time since their stylistic perfection to find the necessary person to bring out the max in ‘em, that person being producer Kurt Ebelhäuser (check works by Blackmail and Donots, for instance). Meanwhile the band has built their own studio, which they will open to any band needing recordings. At the same time, they volunteer themselves as tutors in either guitar, bass, keyboard, or drum playing. Interesting if you happen to live in that neck of the woods. However, for music lovers not living in the Rheiland Pfalz area in Germany, the record the band has just put out will be far more interesting. While I checked myspace.com/dioramic a couple of weeks ago, they had already posted 3 of the 11 songs on the album…to which they added another one since. Just go check it out, and stand your ground for a while, because you may not find the band’s music quite so “easy”! Nevertheless, if you give ‘em half a chance, you may well find yourself hooked enough to wanna go out and buy the album! That’s what happened to me, you know! 90/100 Tony. |