[colored_box color=”grey”]Rating: 4
Label: Profound Lore Records
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Author: Kostas Tsotsanis[/colored_box]
In general, we can say that the tracks all together sound familiar. This is because they are all build under a specific music structure. We have pompous, commanding drum lines along with heavy groovy guitars. The result steps between sludge metal and post metal. The vocals are deep but faded; the whole slow-paced music with those repeated faded vocals get you extremely tired. We can describe ‘Nations to Flames’ an atmospheric record, but doesn’t excite the listener, even if you like sludge metal very much.
As I’ve stated before, the lyrics are mostly about social matters and the record is bonded with revolutionary themes. ‘Fall’, ‘Dead Flags’, ‘Lifeless’, all those songs claim the rise of a new world, a better one and most authentic. ‘The Year One’ and ‘Soothsayer’ are instrumental tracks. The first one is very good too. It is atmospheric, dynamic and sludge-slow. As far as the guitar riffs are concerned, they are kind of lost into the whole music, which sounds like a mass the most times. I can understand what the band tried to accomplish in the record, but they needed a different approach, both in vocals and in sound engineering.
‘Nations to Flames’ is not the album I expected to hear at first. I demanded more by A Storm of Light, something better than their usual sound and totally more significant. The songs themselves are not bad, but along with the high guitar gain, the digitally changed vocals and the work done in the band’s sound, they get repeated and forgettable. Nothing special this time from A storm of Light.
| Track List | Line Up | 01. Fall 02. Apostles of Hatred 03. The Fire Sermon 04. Omen 05. Dead Flags 06. All the Shining Lights 07. Disintegrate 08. Lifeless 09. Soothsayer 10. You are the Hunted 11. The year is One |
Domenic Seita – Bass Vocals Josh Graham – Vocals, guitars B.J. Graves – Drums |