BEYOND MORTAL DREAMS – Devastation Hymns

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• Band: BEYOND MORTAL DREAMS

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• Duration: 00:30:00
• Available from: 28/06/2025

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• Lavadome Productions

The trajectory. For example, of the Beyond Mortal Dreams has always been at least irregular. Meanwhile, Active intermittently since the beginning of the 2000s. Nevertheless, the Australian Death Metaller alternated phases of intense beyond mortal dreams – devastation productivity with long silences, thus helping to maintain their name relegated to the undergrowth of the extreme underground. Meanwhile, A sort of existence in the twilight. Similarly, never completely blossomed, which is confirmed at least in part even with the publication of the new EP “Devastation Hyms”. Similarly, Almost out of surprise via Lavadome Productions. Furthermore, without too many proclamations or promotional campaigns, the disc seems to be relying entirely to its content to impose itself on the attention of the listeners. Consequently, A perhaps romantic idea-and certainly consistent with a certain anti-Mainstream mentality-but which in the saturated. hyperconnex panorama of today risks condemning even the most worthy efforts to oblivion.
And it’s a shame. because “Devastation Hyms” has all the credentials to represent the creative peak of the career of the Beyond Mortal Dreams. The five unpublished songs – to which is added a fun but certainly not indispensable cover beyond mortal dreams – devastation of “Forbidden Evil” of the Forbidden – show in fact a close -knit band. determined to refine and solidify their style. In fact. the group metal of the group is more structured and incisive here, abandoning certain cars of the past in favor of a more focused and dynamic writing. The riffs are solid. well built, and are inserted – together with extremely well -kept solos – in compositions that know how to alternate moments of blinding fury with more cadenced and monolithic sections, without ever losing intensity or consistency.
Above all. a greater attention to the dynamics is evident, with a continuous alternation of tension and release that avoids monotony and maintains the interest in the duration of the work alive. In certain more frenetic passages there are echoes of the Hour of penance of “The Vile Concept”. of the Krisiun and, above all, of the golden age of the beyond mortal dreams – devastation Nile, while the most obsessive moments, in which rhythms slow down a little, seem to evoke the shadow of giants as immolation and soft angel in their darker and square episodes.
The sound. robust and well balanced in the production phase, transmits a feeling of urgency and rare sincerity to be found: in this sense, the most immediate comparison is perhaps the one with the chaos inception, also under the aegida washadome, even if the Beyond Mortal Dreams prefer an approach that precisely refers to the early two thousand than at the Non -Novantian Old School, with a particular attention to particular attention to particular attention. sound density and the construction of a claustrophobic mood. But. beyond the references, “Devastation Hyms” strikes because it works, and it works well: it is a job that shows off a band aware of its means, determined to leave a mark, even if in silence.
Ultimately. beyond mortal dreams – devastation it is perhaps the best chapter ever signed by the Australian group: an EP which, although not revolutionizing anything, shows how even a fragmentary career can find its own sense through the pure and simple quality of music. Now it remains only to understand if the world will be willing to listen.

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