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What we have here is the symphonic power equivalent of basement black metal, Norway’s Adyta being the intellectual and creative property of Joakim Severinsen, scion of disparate projects wholly similar to this one. Difference being that this is entirely his baby, our man of the hour ceding only the vocal chores to expatriate soprano Melissa Ferlaak (Aesma Daeva, Visions of Atlantis), who works in a session vocalist capacity here. Ferlaak sounds her usual close-to-perfect self, and it will be interesting to see whether her services are retained as the maestro shops around for proper band personnel as he intends to do. Indeed, this spit-polished demo is essentially a calling card for musicians and labels alike to look him up. Until that day comes, Severinsen handles all of the guitar parts skillfully, the drum programming acceptably and the extreme death and black vocals lamentably. The songs themselves (four plus a de rigueur synth intro) are strictly mediocre, faux-dramatic and ultimately just a bit too superficial to latch onto my personal loyalty, but at least the experience doesn’t feel like a widdly-wanked, ego-driven shredfest like I expected it to be. There’s some degree of musical narrative going on here, but for all its genre-dictated frills and trills, it’s still in its nascent form.
| Tracklist |
| 1. Ab Exilio (Prologue) |
| 2. The Ophidian's Tongue |
| 3. Rose of Melancholy |
| 4. Gjennom Tiden |
| 5. Of a Captive Mind |
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