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YELLOW EYES “Confusion Gate”
YELLOW EYES “Confusion Gate”
By Octopi Mills
YELLOW EYES return with their 7th album. Opening with some pastoral ambience and going into some stormy metal realm, a song called "Brush the Frozen Horse" is wound up for the nine minute mark. "The Thought of Death" begins with a moody piece and remains there, entering into the vein of some sort of metal that could be blind tested as European if we did not have the old score cards here at this time. The dark dredging ringing guitars of "Suspension Moon" put it in a melodramatic caste along with the other songs, having a unique sort of signature timing and choice of moods, which hinge on the mad and nightmarish side of the sounds.
"I. Nocturne" is a nice little passage that shows the strength in simplicity and beyond before becoming "A Forgotten Corridor." I find myself in this corridor, something like the Night Gallery without a host or show, much like a series of paintings and heavy emotional music. The vocals remain of the extreme metal genres of all both old and modern, and offer little compared to the music. The music definitely takes the reigns and rides with the visual aspect this track is capable of creating. With another great song title like "I Fear the Master's Murmur" I sense the weirdness as it spirals back to old metal trappings, those old shadows of before. Jagged and discordant guitars take the helm, in a gleeful sort of strangeness that the band is known to be capable of.
The album carries a sort of theme and general sound as the songs come on like little night terrors with parts that swirl alive for a moment, epic and wild. Synth or something that we once called such colors the parts here and there adding for a cinematic effect that serves well. "Confusion's Gate" keeps itself close to the house of the old metal framework, daring to have a gothic sort of wrought iron way, if i may say. And before it flies away it has interesting little parts that are ornamental and nicely adorned, as with all the album, though I wish it were brought to the front a bit more. Not a bad album, and I will probably have to listen again to know for sure all that is within it.
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