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Review Summary: Although tagged as melodic black death, "Sapphire Season" submits to no conformities. Emerging just outside the osdm scene, being '85-'95, the release of 96's "Sapphire Season" is both reminiscent of the scene and yet shows perspective moments of genre fushions such as avant garde, psychadelic, and hard rock. Imagine if you will, the heavy tremolo styles of osdm band Dismember, blended with the perfect harmonizing dark melodies of Dark Tranquillity, and the odd alternate riffing patterns of Meshuggah. These styles have come together in one unified release and play off each other quite well. But even with these notable characteristics, the diversity found within "Sapphire Season" still can't be contained. Moments of extremely odd solos like the one found at the end of the opening track are very much likened to psychedelic moments from guitarist legend Jimi Hendrix.
The albums pace is one that favors the middle ground, meaning tempos usually around 75 to 150bpm. Within these tempos the line-up plays with different musical textures native to death metal and melodic metal, but usually favoring the melodic, slower death metal style. Many tracks like "Embryonic Wonder" use these traits in a progressive manner, slowly building on the already present layers. However, occasionally certain riffs are thrown in for the sake of alternative creativity and sometimes fail as they send the already heightened emotional moments crashing to the ground. Although unique and different from most melodic death metal, many tracks like "Salvation Accomplished" and "Forest of Oblivion" share a bit of stagnancy as boring alternate chugs do little to add personal excitement and fire.
Cyanotic's "Sapphire Season" can be a very enjoyable album given a person's musical mood. If you are in the mood for melody that is never cheesy, vocals that are "scruffy", with a blend of osdm that sometimes enters odd riffing patterns, then "Sappire Season" may be the one for you. The music won't blow your head off with excessive creativity and sometimes can be a bit stagnant, but with the proper mindset, this release can offer you many components of enjoyability and may even inspire a few prospective listeners.
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Industrial Cyanotic? :D
Oh.
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"If you are in the mood for melody that is never cheesy"
NOPE! Good review though.
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haha I mean I like cheesy music
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I guess that makes the current Cyantoic the third one. There was also a Cyanotic from Vancouver in the early '00s.
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"Emerging just outside of the osdm scene, being '85-'95, the release of 96's "Sapphire Season" is both reminiscent and perspective."
i don't think this makes sense
pretty good review overall though, i think you just tried to be a little too verbose
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i get what you're trying to say but you're saying it in the wrong tense
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i wouldn't consider, i would find a way that actually works because it really isn't right at all
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that sounded dickish but you know i love you bro
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So glad this has a review.
Pretty spot on, pos.
Been listening to this since it came out in '96 and hasn't lost one bit of its edge.
Inside it, one can find black metal, American death metal, Scandinavian melodic death metal, extreme doom metal, lead guitars that owe a lot to the blues, and much much more.
Inside The Avalanche Maze:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JMccGneyds
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Man, thought this would've had a few more ratings/comments, ha. This is real underrated. An excellent showcase of early melodeath.
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Appreciate your comment! Hadn't heard this one before and threw it on due to your bump and I'm enjoying the hell out of it! This is melodic death metal done proper! It's got some proper balls to it!
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Hell yeah, anything to get more folks into it. This album could certainly use more love here, it really deserves it.
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Too bad these guys didn’t record more albums.
From time to time, they commemorate this album at live shows in Denmark.
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Yeah, I would've loved to see what else they could've come up with, maybe at least one more would've been great. But this is still really good regardless, really underrated.
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Goddamn the fact that I'm only the 3rd rating is insanity! This is definitely dope! Some of the solos and leads here are near perfection
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I had looked to see if this was in the database and I was surprised to see this only had one rating, and especially a whole review. I was expecting a few more ratings than that, but hey, never too late to fix that!
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It's a '90s album and an obscure one (in the '90s I only saw one review of it), so the possibility of more ratings is unlikely, unfortunately.
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Aye, but a man can dream!
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