Good things (hopefully) come to those who wait. Being slated for a late 2007 release, the debut record of Greek melancholics ECHOES THEREIN GALE is still out of sight. It’s said that cover and booklet artwork takes longer time as planned. An inconsolable circumstance, since a hauntingly beautiful gem of dark ambient sounds remains concealed.
Echoes In Darkness starts out cool, mysterious and reserved with Echoes In Darkness Dissolve The Silence. Nordic-cold sound collages and string arrangements rush flying thoughts into deep sadness, take distorted guitars all hope away. Foes Of Light Beautify My Solitude even intensifies the lost feeling, although the sounds slightly begins to reveal more and more positive aspects, a trend that continues with every track like gaining victory over the winter when first sunrays free land and soul from ice. Reaching a certain amount of serenity with Silent Tears For The Sanguine Dawn, shadows still surge behind, echoing dark thoughts, while melancholy longs for the dark winter. It’s like an ongoing circle that gets closed with In The Maelstrom Of Nocturnal Lust.
Only point of criticism is the snatchy transitions between the tracks, a flow that gets corrected during the mastering process I think.