Majestic Downfall - The Blood Dance
This Mexican Death/Doom outfit suffers from an all-too common affliction in the Metal world. A chronic disease known as Onlythefirstsongisgooditis. There is no known cure, barring painfully realistic self-evaluation and a defeated crawl back to the drawing board. It’s clearly evident after multiple listens that the opening title track contains the only really good ideas Majestic Downfall have had up to this point. The finest one being the pure Katatonia-style riff straight from the Brave Murder Day / Sounds of Decay era that ties the song together perfectly. The best description I could offer of this glorious title track would have to be the band’s name. It’s a truly majestic cut embittered by raw despondency. But that’s about it for the album. “From Black to Dead” and “An Untravelled Road” have moments of noteworthy Paradise Lost and Cemetary worship, both in their Doomy primes, but these tracks also suffer from ridiculously cruel lengths (nearly 20 minutes combined). Jacobo Cordova’s vocals just aren’t pro enough to carry that much weight. He really sounds like shit on “Dimension Plague,” which is equally plagued by overwhelmingly vaginal lyrics, and even more so on album closer “Cronos.” During the clean part of the latter… no man’s voice should ever sound like that. There’s also a mind-numbingly boring song that Cordova perhaps penned for his favorite retail outlet entitled, “Army of Salvation.” No joke, that’s what it’s actually called. In summary, download for the terrific first song and trash the rest because you’ll never listen to it.
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