EASTERICA

This review is a typical example of different musical backgrounds and experiences. Hence a radically different review than the other review(s), but still more or less coming to the exact same conclusion.

Our friend Dmitry may have had other visions in his head when composing this album, but it does come across as a blend of Scandinavian folk music and industrial metal. It has the feel of one of these Scandinavian crossbreeds between black metal and folk music which the scene has been littered with for the past fifteen years. The band Ulver started this trend and others has followed their lead. Misanthrofeel too is down this path. But the lack of acoustic instruments does limits the final result. You still have these harsh industrial grind metal guitars in the background and the computers. That's not exactly acoustic instruments. Then you also have some electric guitars on the top of the mix too. Included some metal riffs chugging and you get this album.

The music is pretty good though. It is certainly a different approach to this folk music scene. An approach handicapped by the computers and the lack of human resources, this being a one man project. But I am not so sure if Dmitry really wanted to go down that folk music road anyway. I am not going to second guess his intentions.

This album is pretty good and it is a pretty innovative album as far as I know. Industrial metal combined with folk music......... I cannot remember anyone done this before. It is like mixing fire with water. Smoke is the result. But this album is pretty OK and worthy the free download.

3 stars (barely)