Diabolic Night
"Beneath
the Crimson Prophecy"
High Roller Rec.
2023
Four years after
the release of "Beyond the Realm," the German solo project is back
with a new album. Should champagne be opened on this occasion? It depends.
Those who have heard the earlier recordings of this project will probably admit
that there is next to nothing revelation in them. Malcontents will probably
immediately add that there are dozens of similar creations on the scene. And
here I will agree, because it is enough to look through the publishing catalog
of, for example, Dying Victims, where every other band revolves around a similar
style. It's just that I sip all these carbon copies and imitators from
Florian's stable like a chilled beer on a hot day. So the champagne may not
actually be chilled, but I will eagerly open the brew for "Beneath the
Crimson Prophecy". Why? Because what strikes from this music is sincerity.
The very fact that the dude is responsible for everything (except the drum
parts) himself, shows his great devotion to the genre that is old-school heavy
and thrash metal. For these are the sounds we are dealing with here. The spirit
of the first wave of black metal, which after all was based mainly on playing
even more classic, going back to the early eighties, lives in the eight
compositions on this album. You won't find any looped, boring riffing of the
same theme here. Our musician, despite the fact that he draws in full handfuls
from names that every person around fifty knows and remembers with a tear in
their eye, is able to sew from this old, worn-out material something in which
you can actually go out to the people. At the same time, what we hear on the second
full-length of Diabolic Night is not just retro playing. A kind of tuning,
though also absolutely noninnovative, is the weaving into these compositions a
bit of second-wave black metal influences, mainly Scandinavian ones. And as on
the cover we can see a phantom with a sword in its hand, treading the stairs in
an old castle, also the intro leading us into the world of "Beneath the
Crimson Prophecy" may be somewhat associated with the era of Robin Hood.
It's a very logical connotation, by the way, since the aforementioned
heavy-metal influences in Diabolic Night's music come mainly from bands that
looked at the genre through the prism of sword and dragons. It must be admitted
that this album, as a whole, is well thought out in all details and creates
really interesting material that is a tribute to years gone by metal. If you
like this kind of tunes, you will probably be satisfied with these recordings.
Finally, just one more piece of advice. Stock your fridge with at least a
four-pack, because listening to "Beneath the Crimson Prophecy" won’t
finish after one beer.
- jesusatan
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