Visions in Verse

Although there are few relatively good tracks on this album, if you listen to this entire Vespers Descent‘s effort, despite it has kind of original sound and it doesn’t sound like most of the famous nothern melodeath bands, it gets very boring and repetitive. And I claim this as a big fan of melodic death metal. There are too many great bands and albums to check in this genre and in other metal/music genres at all, that it's not worth to waste your time and money on this one. I came across this band and since they have no myspace profile, I got this album based only on their music clip of a track called Cardinal Red. This track is actually one of the best on this album along with the opening track Dissent. I mean, all tracks on this album are kind of good, but if you listen to them one after another, you just find out, that they are very similar to each other. And there is even no standout track with so good melodies and harmonies that it would force me to listen to it again and again.

I find nothing bad on this album but its repetitivness, the production is very good, vocals are situated somewhere between death and black growls and there are even clean vocals on one track. Drumming is precise and sometimes quite technical but not very much, guitars are nice played but here comes the main problem – the riffs are really very similar to each other. After listening to the entire album, there are some riffs, none of them great though, stuck in my mind, but I can’t remember in which song did I hear them.

Many people use the same title as I did "Do not waste your time with this" if they want to say it's just another metalcore garbage. I can assure you, that this isn't metalcore at all. There is something that I haven't heard on any other melodeath album at all - it's some laughing on track 3 - Plains of Azure Light. What kind of influence is that? Punk? Probably. It doesn't matter anyway, it isn't on any other song, so it shouldn't get annoying.

To sum it up, if you are a really big fan of melodic death metal genre and if you really think there are no more bands to check or if you are curious about Australian melodic death metal like I was, try to listen this album, but I can‘t recommend it to any metal fan at all.