Eye of Solitude - The Deceit
In Metal, it is rare to see a recording that was done for charity. This EP is to raise funds for the Romanian association for the blind and sight-impaired. Depending on where you get this EP, it will have either two or three tracks. The three-track version comes directly from Kaotoxin, which is the one I recommend getting. Everyone else has the two-track version. The “bonus track” is a cover of “Night’s Dew” by Shape of Despair and it’s really well done. The two that are Eye of Solitude songs are “The Deceit,” which is new, and “Painstained,” which is a remastered track from their out-of-print debut album, The Ghost. Of the two Eye of Solitude tracks, “The Deceit” is definitely better. If you liked Sui Caedere or Awoken by Crows, you will enjoy listening to “The Deceit.” It is very much in the vein of what they were doing on Sui Caedere. I liked that they added different vocals in with Daniel Neagoe’s guttural Incantation-esque growling. It added an additional layer to their already punishing and atmospheric sound. “Painstained” is a good song but something about that track irritated me. It might have been the guitar sound or the combination of that and another sound (possibly the keyboards?), but I found it unsettling. Something about the tone set me on edge and I don’t know if that was intentional or not. It wasn’t prominent except near the beginning and briefly in the middle. The bulk of the song was dark and atmospheric in the same way that “The Deceit” was. Outside of that one bit, I thought that The Deceit was a very solid and well-rounded EP. I didn’t even think that the unsettling bit was a serious detraction. If you like atmospheric Doom/Death Metal in the vein of old My Dying Bride, Avernus or Chorus of Ruin, you will definitely enjoy this release by Eye of Solitude.
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