UMUR "There Is Light (But It's Not For Me)" is the 10th full-length studio album by Danish death metal act Illdisposed. The album was released through Massacre Records in April 2011.

The music on the album is groove oriented death metal with plenty of melody. It´s not as such melodeath, but there are quite a few similarities between the music on this album and that genre. In addition to the heavy and mostly mid-paced death metal attack which is excecuted in a convincing way, the music also features synths and synth effects. Those elements provide the music with a contemporary sound that will probably appeal to those who enjoy their death metal with synth heavy edge. Bo Summer´s are deep and brutal but occasionally he also screams highter pitched notes. The latter style is not as prominent on "There Is Light (But It's Not For Me)" as it has been on some of the preceeding albums.

Illdisposed is a band that is impossible for me not to like. It´s not that the last couple of albums, including this one, have been revelations, but they are all professionally produced, well played and well composed. Most importantly though there is a brutal and groovy charm about the band´s core sound that just greatly appeals to me. I could have done without the synths which I personally find distracting and a bit generic, but I´m sure that´s an aquired taste, so I´ll try not to be too harsh with my rating because of that. A 3.5 star (70%) rating is deserved.

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Genre: Melodic death metal

One thing's for sure: Illdisposed have longevity. They are one of the few First Wave of Danish Death Metal bands who are still around. Their secret is that they're constantly developing and reinventing themselves, and they have an ability to follow the tides and tendencies of the metal genre without losing originality.

The three main elements on this album are melody, groove and electronic sounds. Most tracks are in a middle pace (with tracks like "Step into my Winter", "Sunday Black" and Alone" being faster tracks) and draw on a combination of groovy, rocking riffage and melodic keyboard effects and other electronic stuff (this album actually kind of reminds me of Anime Fire who use the same sort of combinations).

I think that the groovy riffs and the more uptempo melodeath tracks work well, but this album strikes me as being very polished and clean, and the electronic effects fill too much and I would have liked to hear some more old school and brutal elements on this album, too.

But such is the world of Illdisposed - constant development, and sometimes you just don't get what you want. That being said, I think that this album will be a huge hit among fans of melodeath and melodic metalcore, because it's got all the elements that characterizes these genres.