BEYOND THE VOID - I Am Your Ruin

Remember Secret Discovery? I mean, the good old days, ten years ago when we were all humming Hello-hello, I'm gonna leave you-leave you? Yeah, those were the times! What's wrong with me? Well, today I've listened to this band named Beyond the Void and I remembered how great it feels to hear the sound of dark, melodic, melancholic gothic metal if it's delivered with talent.

That's right, I said Beyond the Void and I said talent. Even though this is only their second release, they really know what they're doing. Defiance to the End has all that it takes to reach perfection and to instantly catapult the listener straight into goth-heaven, that's where I'm writting from right now. While singing along and banging my head to the music. And that's not all, wait until you hear the violin going solo! Displaying a maximal proficiency this song hooks the listener right from the start. The rest of the songs are quite successfully trying to keep up this rhythm, cleverly changing the mood here and there,  from an electro riffing half-ballad in the vein of Darkseed to a song built around some rather unusual bass lines that made me think about Lacrimosa. The vocals are conventional in their approach, but that's not a bad thing: they're exactly what you would expect to hear from a goth metal band: deep but warm, serene but melodic and nicely covering every song's needs.

Let's get one thing straight: Beyond the Void are not re-inventing gothic metal here. It is an old story that they are re-telling, but they find new words for it. Caring a great deal about little things like a good looking cover, balancing the heaviness of the riffs and the length of the solos so they won't bother anyone, be it metalhead or radio listener, these guys are wonderfully summing up all the best this metal genre ever had to offer.

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