FROSTMOON ECLIPSE – Death Is Coming

The second album of these bleak Italians offers demoniac and fast Black Metal mixed up with acoustic guitar parts. Despite all speed the songs emanate certain catchiness especially because of the well done refrains. During the whole playing time, variety of speed is dominating and the musical breaks are set cleverly. The result is a runny and convenient album, which can convince me in spite of the not really satisfactorily sound. There are a lot of details hidden in every track, which FROSTMOON ECLIPSE combines coherently to a compact work of art. The speedy attacks are loosened up by an instrumental intermezzo called Funeral which functions like a breather to get some air before the next aggressive song World In Ruin is raging. High speed dominates, but there is no danger to drift into chaos, because right in time there is our friend, the acoustic guitar to slow down the song, These contrasts are present all the time and this is a positive aspect talking about Death Is Coming. Besides, I think that speed is more than ever effective if there are also slow parts. The penultimate song Blindness is uncommon and sounds like a ballad, a whispering voice is accompanied by acoustic guitars remembering of old Katatonia. The concluding Waiting For The Storm is brilliant at its exciting way of composition – an acoustic part is followed by fast chords riddled with breaks, before the screechy voice starts. Some acoustically played guitars remind me of Opeth, but this is not the worst reference I guess. FROSTMOON ECLIPSE has done a many-sided and diversified album and we can expect some good works for the future.