ECLIPSE
- The Act of Degradation
Eclipse
play a sort of symphonic black metal, with some ambitious heavy-prog influxes
and the first problem is that this album have a totally
lack of solemnity
and a completely wrong choice on the sounds, tending to reproduce Eclipse’s
ideas in something that doesn’t’ threat at all, because there isn’t the
occult vibration that this kind of music needs. They surely haven’t the
Emperor maturity and about the lack
of atmosphere just listen to an incredible example as Limbonic Art’s
"Moon in the Scorpio" to understand the difference with this album.
For some melodies and those sound problems the Eclipse music is more oriented to
an epic-heavy target, because in the darker field they actually can’t stand
other acts, they also have a too nervous song-writing, the feeling, that was
meant to be the strongest element, is ripped away by too many drum-machine
variations, the result is that something is too unnatural to me. I have nothing
against drum-machine by itself, but it have to be better inserted in the music
spectrum.
If a band that plays symphonic- black metal wish to emerge and use a
drum-machine it have to be well-programmed and the synth sound have to be very
carefully created, but those are the major problems of this work, they tried to
be play a complex form of this
music losing the majesty of the Emperor’s and Limbonic Art’s masterpieces
and after listening to the last Diachronia’s "XX’s Decline"
everything become more difficult for this polish band. My advice is to start
from some good ideas that in some moment are there and there and to gain a more
meditated song-writing, less anxious, also to better check the sound and
drum-machine programming, because symph. Black metal can’t be a computer-game
soundtrack.
Ild