Never mind if it’s the cover, band name, logo, title or whatever – every release stir listeners’ expectations up and moves drawers open inevitably. This name promises the great die off. Humans kept in mass stocks with following execution can be excluded when glance over the cover through the distance of aridity away from the present logo. Ok, no butchery but political and critical views on diverse drawbacks. So, we have to clarify if the music is lost in the parched, meager drought or if it finds something to offend.
Although Triumph Of Tragedy is a debut album the gang behind aren’t unknown anymore. Before changing name into THE DYING back in 2006, the guys plough through Metal’s battlefields under the banner Chimaera since 2000. It seems that this renaming does the band good; at least they opened and heated up the Unholy Alliance for Slayer, Trivium, Amon Amarth and Mastodon. And this constellation shows clearly, where this Thrash Metal combo is placed at present: it’s (still) under to be at the top and too much for the bottom – let’s name it exalted midfield with potential upwards. On Triumph Of Tragedy THE DYING knows how to combine old school Thrash elements with modern influences of Thrash. Every track has its space for a more or less lacing of melodic Death Metal made in Sweden. The splits between meaty Slayer and Exodus riffs and melodic parts is managed skilful without hernia. Accented as the most distinctive the vocals are; those of you who admire Kreator’s Mille as a revelation should furrow your brow in view to the more than blatant similarities to his voice. Though THE DYING dash their tracks on Triumph Of Tragedy accomplished and competent, the last kick and real outstanding are missing. This is to hammer out by the Belgians on their way through the aridity, even though Triumph Of Tragedy breaks the crusts and brings live to it already.