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The first track of this Demo begins with the sound of keyboards and the winds. The keyboards create a very sad atmosphere which is highly enhanced by the sound of blowing winds. Then comes the TV reporter’s voice who is explaining a massacre to the audience. The second part of this track starts with a sudden burst of vocals and music. The vocals are neither shrieking nor growling, but a nice combination of the two. The music has a very high pace in the beginning. But in several intervals the music and the vocals slow down. In these intervals again the main atmosphere is built by the keyboards which play a simple but highly effective tune. Perhaps the drumworks of this track are its Achilles hills. The drummer does his best, especially in the beginning of the track, but after the first interval, he can not cope with the whole song structure and prefers to continue in the monotonous way that he had begun. This track ends with a fizzling sound of several TV channels. This clever ending gives the listener the impression of a violent massacre, including the slaughter of TV reporter and his crew. This image completely accords with “necrophilic” lyrics of the track that seeks peace in death.
The second track begins like the second part of the first track. The vocals and music start together simultaneously from the very beginning, but on the whole there is not much to say about this track, because it blindly tries to repeat the success of the first one, but always repeating a successful formulae does not necessarily make all the tracks successful, even within a single demo.
Altogether this is a good demo, and this band has proven its ability to compose good music and definitely good lyrics. Fear The Future may have a long way to maturity, but they have had a good start for a death/black metal band.
| Tracklist |
| 1. Mystic Shadows |
| 2. With My Eyes Wide Open |
: 10.43
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