Album review: DYNAZTY – Final Advent
AFM Records [Release date: 26.08.22]
Guided by Love Magnusson and Nils Molin, the band’s influential guitarist and vocalist respectively, Dynazty successfully transitioned from melodic rock to symphonic rock several albums ago, with 2018′s Firesign getting the target “formula” just right.
Two years later, its sophisticated, self produced successor, “The Dark Delight” emerged so fully formed, so complete musically, that they finally sounded like a band truly at ease with itself.
The new album, Final Advent, carries on where Dark Delight left off.
What it does is incrementally fine tune the sound that’s now established as their MO. Their epic, keyboard driven symphonic /melodic metal just bursts with energy and invention, pushing them streets ahead of every other band in this genre. ‘Yours’ and ‘All The Devils Are Here’ are our entry point to the music’s endless panorama and soaring orchestral sweep.
They poke at the genre’s boundaries with ‘Advent’ and ‘The Power Of Now’, both tightly constructed and darkly toned, carrying the post industrial rock thrust of bands like Stahlmann and the more traditional metal groove of KMFDM.
There’s lots of arching melody tracking from one song to the next. ‘Natural Born Killer’s symphonic clash of sounds and frantic fandangos blast us into a killer hook, while ‘White’s slightly chaotic synth noises and cossack dance rhythms lead us right back to album standout, ‘Power Of Will’.
It would be exaggeration to say that this song goes off tangentially to the rest of the album, but its mix of slam poetry and operatic metal is a new wrinkle on the face of the symphonic rock genre, conceivably illuminating the path ahead for the band.
We watch the progress of Dynazty with great interest. ****1/2
Review by Brian McGowan
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