| CD REVIEW Dweal |
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Band : Dweal Well, looks like Graviton Music Services have found themselves a free corner in the music market with quite a few commerciable quality Rock bands…that corner being Slovenia! Starting with LastDayHere (of which they re-issued the 2008 From Pieces Created album – see reviews posted 26/10/2009, by myself, and 23/11/2009, done by collegue Erik), they’ve now picked up a total of 3 additional bands, being Inmate, Amity in Fame (who released a full-length titled Dinner For One in July 2008, only 2 months after they’d been formed), aand Dweal! Not a lot of info on this band, except that even prior to the Slovenian release of this album in July 2009, they had already managed to play support slots for such internationally renowned bands as Killswitch Engage and As I Lay Dying, played at major festivals (such as Exit Festival, the biggest music fest in Southern Europe)…and that the band was formed at the end of 2005, when singer/ guitarist Matjaz “Matt” Gorican finally found (in guitarist Vasja “Van” Bajde, bassist Martin Pockar, and drummer Denis Jancic) the necessary musicians with the same view on and taste for music as his own! About themselves, the band communicates: “Why we do it? Because we believe in it. As long as there are people who are willing to share their dreams, hopes, love and passion for music with us, we will continue sharing our music, hopes, dreams and experience with them. Since we are all human, this might last forever. We didn’t just decide to do this, it arose as a form of self-expression. Sometimes we do it to let off some steam, sometimes to gather greater energy. And it’s always mutual. Dweal is about music. Even though we are aware that the world is a mess and the media is the biggest brainwashing establishment in existence, our lyrics are not in any way politically oriented. They are about experiences you and I have encountered and tend to speak more about the upleasant things in life that affect every one of us. Be that as it may, it’s the melodies that make Dweal uniquely Dweal.” Right, and the vocal stylings of the singer, of course…because after all, the vocalist makes the sound of a band complete, sets it apart from others! What you get, overall…and this in spite of the tags “Rock”, “Modern Rock”, and “BeerCore” the band put on their music on their last.fm page…is a very Grungy kind of music…and Matt’s slightly nasal singing style, combined with the “negativity” of the lyrical content (which I’ve found, and you’ll agree, to be a characteristic for many Grunge bands), stress on that orientation even more. The album has only one guest appearance on the track “Forgotten”, which is a male/female duet, but the credits forgot to mention whom shared vocal duties with Matt there! Special to the album also, is the medium-slow instrumental and title track, and the fact that you get two unlisted bonus tracks (one a short – only 105 seconds long – but extremely a capella song, the other an intimate instrumental with a short piano passage and a very wacky effect on the guitar). None of which you’ll find posted at myspace.com/dweal…but then the tracks you can listen to are more typical for the band! Certainly a band with a potential to make it big in the States, as their music coincides with that country’s taste in heavy music in a rather commercial way. And although I’ve found many moments in this band’s music to be quite entertaining, the word “commercial” usually leaves an unpleasant bitter aftertaste in my mouth. But then that’s a personal thing! 86/100 Tony. |