My Dying World... and Life!

Hailing from Crimea, My Dying World ‘Mako’ have released their debut album “My Dying World… And Life!” independently in November 2014 – an album that’s lyrically full of unpleasantness towards the way life has treated the minds behind the band.

After an instrumental intro which gives us that nostalgic feeling delivered by melodic guitars that is so typical within depressive black metal, the second track “Untitled Melancholy” drags us through hollow and dark corridors due to the slow pace that’s marked by the drums and by the distorted and repetitive guitar. The song is interrupted by the silence that’s broken by the beat of the drums’ pedal like if it was patterning the pace of a funeral procession, and then we get back to the guitar riffs that suck us into solitude in which suffering is recalled through the crying vocals.

The sequence of the echoed solitary notes is also part of the album and those notes are majorly accompanied by the sound of falling rain – something that perhaps may sound as cliché in the current days, but it fits very well and the sense of sadness grows even more. The instrumental “Apati Dreams Through Rainfall” may sound tedious, but it’s possible to notice that the leading moments emerge through different kinds of distortion and, even within the same range of composition, it’s also possible to check out some different musical phrasings. Melody returns with “Crying Fake Soul” and in it we’ll listen to the first fast drumming sections as well as some low-pitched growls contrasting with the acute and painful screeching that is more preponderant in the whole record.

The overall composition of the songs is good, but the production doesn’t make justice to the quality of creation since a lot of times the guitars don’t appear as a defined body and it seems they fail in the changing of chords, and the drums are too synthetic which leads us to soon realize they are programmed.

Originally written at www.againstmagazine.com