Czech five-piece DYING PASSION present melancholic Gothic Rock, played in average to moderate speed. I feel quite good while listening to this CD, but the songs are not able to create awesome feelings or emotions in my inner self.
Songs like the tripartite Do You Want To Fly are suited to lean back and dream, whereas the atmosphere is intensified by the use of instruments which are rather atypical for Rock/Metal music like trumpet, clarinet or saxophone. Partly, there is kind of Musical feeling in the air (Tender Renown). The vocals are all female and please me because of the dulcet warmth. Singer Zuzana favours deep pitch of the voice and does not beep in vertiginous heights (Thank God!!!).
I miss enthralling arrangements, DYING PASSION are not able to build up certain suspense to arrest the listeners´ attention. As a consequence, my advertence dies down after a while, even though there are well done approaches and some experiments like the distorted voice in Him Far Away seems to prove.
For the most part, Sweet Disillusion has nothing to do with heavy rocking music and so I want to recommend this CD only to those listeners, who prefer their music in a jovial and solemn way with some exotic ingredients.