Tuomio

Luckily no funeral doom and no depressive black metal. Wainas stick to the death/doom metal side of it all and avoid the pitfall of creating some absurd form of endless wankering about how miserable life can be; with all the obvious boring and plain mess. The three songs on their debut demo are quite heavy, slow and even well produced. In terms of the style the music is more on the death than on the doom site; it more or less in the middle ground with some peaks in the lower direction. Well performed growls, some rare solo elements, well performed/written riffs round up a positive impression. It is easy to like this demo, because the music is generally catchy and rarely boring or plain. The tension and atmosphere is kept up and without any displaced sound sample in the middle of the track that would disturb the performance. Heavy, powerful and generally of a pretty basic concept.

The downside of it all is the lyrics/music ration which is a bit too high at times – II – and it is therefore hard to thoroughly enjoy the music. Moreover, as there are no neat interludes or anything else that might create a lasting impression, the compositions pass by but leave nothing behind. So, even though Wainas did a good job on their first demo, balancing issues in the song-writing leave a slight bitter taste. Nevertheless, Tuomio is still worth checking out.

Based on a review originally written for ‘A dead spot of light (Number 3)’:
http://www.archive.org/details/ADeadSpotOfLight...number3