Charm Designer
Everlasting

Colombian quartet with many Diegos are designing charms to enchant the people in the metal world. They are releasing their second effort, eight years after the debut that saw light of day in 2008. Celebrated for their efforts have they been as well so this could clearly be something to write home about, or maybe not. I am not overly impressed with the cover art, it looks fairly ordinary but one can never judge a book by its cover.

Musically it doom- or gothic metal, raspy vocals and pretty low tempo through the songs. Relatively ordinary stylewise but melodic and really well produced, a quite solid effort I would say when it comes to soundscape and those things. Decent variation over the tracks that plays for little over fifty minutes. I think it ticks the boxes of what this kind of music tends to be about and fans of the genre will most likely find this a rather interesting. It is hard to point to anything creatively interesting when it comes to this album, it is as ordinary as they come from that point of view and some would look at that as a negative.

The album itself is quite good, the songs are solid and strong and I think that fans of the genre will find this album quite agreeable. It is well made, it ticks the right boxes for the fans and so on and so forth. But it is a really difficult album to write anything about this album as it is not that interesting, all I can do is conclude that it is a solid album but creatively not very interesting and I would have liked to see them bring a little more heart and soul to the album and their songs.

In end I think that the opening title track is the best attention grabber and that the rest of the songs are good but none of them has any real hit potential. This album feels very geared towards fans of the genre and not so much to a wider audience. For me it is difficult to get out much words about an album that is good but does not really stand out that much, too good to be bad and too bad to be really good means that it is an album for the middle of our scale.

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