Caelestia
Beneath Abyss

Greek band Caelestia is hiding beneath abyss, deep in the dark voids of the depths of our planet – you know that pale blue dot in the vastness of our solar system which isn’t even a visible dot when glancing our galaxy from the outside. It kind of helps looking at how insignificant man and her accomplishments are when reviewing another melodic death metal album, a genre that has exploded into more and more pointless albums and this second album from this band does not look like it will be anything different as the cover art looks really boring. It is the second album by this band that started out under a different name and has changed some members during the years. This second album sees guest appearances from people known from Soilwork and Sodom but also some known Greek artists appear as guests on the album.

Melodic death metal is what it is about, growly vocals and female vocals along with a pair of instrumental tracks is what we get on this album. Rather typical of the genre is what sounds like; the production is more or less what we usually hear within this genre. There are no novelties, in terms of sound and production it is very typical of the genre – maybe you could claim that the instrumental tracks add a little bit of a personal flavour, but to be honest I wasn’t even aware that there were instrumental tracks when listening to this album and I have heard it several times. Not very much in terms of variation on this album and it is 50 minutes long, in terms of the universe an insignificant amount of time but not as insignificant in a lifetime of a human being.

I think that the album has been a waste of time, it may not be very bad or anything but uninteresting – not an album that can rise above the lower side of our rating scale. In many ways a most pointless album, what they do sounds way too much like most other in this genre that has gotten more and more full with each and every passing moment, just adding to the meaninglessness of human existence. Fans of the genre may just see it a little bit different to me but I doubt that even they will be that impressed with this album, as the vocals are really dull and they don’t really have any hit songs that grabs the attention of the listener. Fact is that the album feels kind of pointless to listen to and fails to leave any lasting impression.

Not an album that impresses me at all, ten tracks that doesn’t do anything for me. It feels just like any other album within this genre and it to me it just goes to show how insignificant our existence really is, we have a short life to live and we use it to copy what others already have done instead of doing something that drives development forwards. They haven’t even perfected anything or done any great song – it is a fairly dull album to be honest. I doubt that any of our readers will be too impressed with this album; it just doesn’t offer anything of any significant value.

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