DRAGGED INTO SUNLIGHT — WidowMaker (review)

DRAGGED INTO SUNLIGHT — WidowMaker album cover Album · 2012 · Death-Doom Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
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"WidowMaker" is the 2nd full-length studio album by UK death/doom/post metal act Dragged Into Sunlight. The album was released through Prosthetic Records in November 2012. Dragged Into Sunlight were formed in 2006 and released their debut full-length studio album "Hatred for Mankind" in 2009.

The 39:50 minutes long "WidowMaker" consists of three long tracks that seque into each other. I guess they sort of form one long track. The music on the album varies quite a lot during the playing time and there are both filthy death metal parts, crushingly heavy doom/drone metal sections and atmospheric post metal parts on the album. The opening 14:51 minutes of the album (or "Part I" if you will) is exclusively simplistic instrumental post rock/metal. It´s atmospheric for sure and the violin part of the track which occurs about 10 minutes into the song is pretty enjoyable too, but overall the track is rather tedious and only occasionally interesting. "Part II" is the most brutal part of the album with growling vocals are more "regular" death metal parts, but calling Dragged Into Sunlight´s music ordinary, wouldn´t be a valid description. There are multible sections in both "Part II" and "Part III" and the songwriting definitely is intriguing.

...it´s not very memorable nor is it very consistent though and if you add to that a purposely rather noisy and distorted sound production, I´m not as impressed as I had hoped I would be. This is certainly interesting, but not really excellent to my ears. A 3 star (60%) rating is warranted.
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