With just an initial listen to the opener, “Never Be Found”, you’re quickly subjected to its meditative trance, complemented by the equally emotive guitar leads and the pounding rhythm section. This time, however, I found the production to be more embracing in comparison to their past efforts. The overall flow of this record swings in the fashion of a pendulum, giving you enough space to take in every single detail of each instrument. Their craft is intact like a well-preserved artifact on display, never with the intent to push boundaries, but to illustrate for listeners old and new alike the trademark they have achieved for themselves in establishing this musical niche. On their fourth full-length, A Shadow Of Memories, Lethian Dreams maintain this very same tradition. Be it the airy vocals from Carline Van Roos, or the dreamlike atmosphere they employed in all their songs, that crushing serenity was mesmerizing, and told tales of the forlorn that were unmatched by the rest. They were certainly heavy, and the melancholy was ever so present, but they had an ethereal, levitating quality to their sound that really stood out to me. Suffice to say, I fell into the atmospheric/gothic doom metal rabbit hole and was in awe over how familiar – yet unorthodox – bands like them, While Heaven Wept, and Draconian were.Īnd yet, Lethian Dreams struck me as different from their contemporaries. That was, until I discovered Lethian Dreams I was instantly hooked with the theatrics blended with otherwise heavy music. I may have seemed like a pretentious little shit, but by then I was very familiar with the rock scene and had already delved into the more extreme variants of metal. While my classmates were jamming to dubstep and my peers were gushing over Slipknot’s All Hope Is Gone, I was looking up the sickest melodic death metal bands on YouTube and eagerly counting the days to see Dream Theater and Between the Buried and Me live for the first time. High school was a strange moment in my life, music-wise.
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