Dawn of Ashes - Farewell to the Flesh
Dawn of Ashes is hard to classify. I guess the tag “Industrial” is wide enough to cover it. This is very mechanical sounding with robotic beats and effects-laden guitars. What makes this release difficult to categorize is that there are only three “new” tracks on here. “Farewell to the Flesh,” “Torture Device Part 2,” and “Blood-Shed with the 3rd Eye” are all new, but the other songs are remixes of “Carnal Consummation in the Empty Space” (three different versions) and “Seething the Flesh in the River ov Phlegethon.” With the remixes placed in the middle of the new tracks, you get music that covers a lot of different areas. Some of the songs are Techno sounding, coming off as a more Industrial version of Suicide Commando or God Module, while others are closer to Atmospheric Black Metal infused material that sounds something like an Industrial version of Dimmu Borgir. It covers a lot of area, but it still falls under the same mechanical/robotic style that classifies this as Industrial. The remix tracks are a bit hit-or-miss, but the new material is better and more consistent. I would have arranged this differently, with the new cuts first and then the remixes at the end as “bonus” tracks. As it is, the track order throws off the consistency, making Farewell to the Flesh sound thrown together where it could have been more cohesive.
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