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Dreaming Darkness starts off by setting the mood with a pleasant finger-picked prelude. This leads the way into a black metal piece with a very good chorus. The composition and playing style differs from the typical, “common” black metal from say, the Nordic countries and Germany in many ways. It’s less “acute” in its performance and the various styles of melodies are very straight-forward in the sense that there is no trace of eccentric “Europeaness”. If you were to explore this analytically, you would find a difference between American, English, “European”, and other metal in the relationship between note-patterns and melody. This is one of the reasons there is such a great demand for American death metal, and European—precisely Scandinavian black metal. This is also true when our brains encounter a foreign language. In many cases, the exotic arrangement of sound and intonation is strangely pleasing. Our brains tend to like things in certain ways, as with music and with food. In that sense, The Belonging’s music is very understandable and agreeable to my anglified ears, and probably most people’s as the English language, and arguably culture, can be considered worldwide as a common denominator, or, the norm. To reiterate… there is no sense of “black metal” exoticism, one of the main draws of Old World black metal. It is also important for the main two styles to blend together to achieve a signature sound. One song is more death and the other more black. Only when a signature sound is created can people recognize and give recognition to, The Belonging.
| Tracklist |
| 1. Prelude |
| 2. Setting The Scene |
| 3. Desecration |
| 4. Dreaming Darkness |
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