Comments on: Dawnbringer – Into the Lair of the Sun God

By: gabaghoul

gabaghoul — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:50:57 +0000

doh, brainfart. fixed.

By: Juan Manuel Pinto

Juan Manuel Pinto — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 23:59:53 +0000

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

By: Biff_Tannen

Biff_Tannen — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:30:38 +0000

” The first half is, I’ll admit, more air guitar worthy, but the second half is really solid and focused music. And it gets better with every listen.”

THIS, is really what it all comes down to. Spot on.

By: Storm King

Storm King — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 01:19:38 +0000

This album isn’t a grower for me, it’s been all I’ve played since I read this review and bought the album as MP3s off Amazon earlier today. Really, really solid trad metal-am I the only one getting a Blue Oyster Cult vibe off of “III”?-and the second half works well for me, with the musical story becoming more somber and serious after the balladry of “V.” The first half is, I’ll admit, more air guitar worthy, but the second half is really solid and focused music. And it gets better with every listen.

By: Biff_Tannen

Biff_Tannen — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:31:44 +0000

Dan – Give this one a try (or 10).

By: Biff_Tannen

Biff_Tannen — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:31:10 +0000

Good write up, but I’ve got to disagree about the second half of the album. I think this is one of the very few albums I’ve ever heard where the familiar tag line of “you have to listen to the album as one piece of work, not a collection of songs”. I find the second half, especially “VI” to be just as good as the first.

This is album really is a grower and reveals itself more and more over repeated listens. If you’ve only given it a listen or two, I think you should spend some more time with it. It’s also perfect highway driving music!

Overall I think it’s a big improvement over “Nucleus”. That album, despite being stylistically all over the place, came off as much to methodically ‘composed’, while this album feels like it comes from the gut.

By: Guilliame

Guilliame — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:36:19 +0000

Just because old folks or religious “authorities” (!?) are not cool and call it all Heavy Metal does not mean DawnBringer is not a metal band that plays Heavy Metal Metal, so to speak.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:39:28 +0000

I bought the last CD after I heard one track, ‘Swing Hard,’ and read reviews that called ‘Nucleus’ a ‘fist-pumping classic metal romp,’ which, based on that one track, sounded accurate. But I have to say I was very disappointed.

It wasn’t bad, but ‘Swing Hard’ was an anomaly. The rest was kind of drawn out, experimental Nachtmystium cast-offs and Black’s vocal delivery was very monotone.

I blame the cover art. Sometimes you want the album to be as good as it looks.