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5/5

review by: Jarno Leivo
review date: 29.9.2006

Depth Beyond One´s - Soledad In The Gale (Promo)

Could be so, that UltraMayhem Org. and Farmakon are finally getting a worthy competitor on the zone of finnish strange metal. I'm saying that this, quite fresh band's mature debut at cost price produced album is so delicious that I'm almost choking on my coffee and bread here and feeling a stratospheric layer entering this world from another dimension.

On this five song demo there is a tight progressive touch on metal plus the composing must have included listening of bands like Mr Bungle and the progressive metal giant Opeth. On the other hand, there is also room for more difficult and tricky musical parts, meanwhile main metal-genre staying far on the back. For example, the beautiful and calm Stowaway sounds like an acoustic OC-soundtrack, but still makes its difference by kicking every companion down to the floor to listen what it has to say.

One other thing makes this band point out from the masses too, for the headman on the composing is the bass player of the band. Jari-Pekka Kanniainen. J-P has created, besides odd-times, some excellent drive on the pieces eventhough they are running mainly over six minutes long. This makes the songs need something extra or it starts to bore you down. Top of the cake, the sounds and the playing are excellent too. Maybe the vocals would need some training, but only in the case of forcing me to say something that needs improving, for I really didn't manage to find anything else.

Creativity is very much of a virtue here in Finland, for everyone has heard the mascaracores and sifongrocks, but this band has to offer so refreshing frequency of music that I can not do more than to recommend to enter its depths. The trip will certainly reward its listener as much it will reward the musicians themselves.