Фрагменты вечности. Review from Demented Magazine

From the dark recesses of Siberia come a trio called “The Extinct Dreams” Their album cover alone speaks volumes in the fact it looks extremely spiritual and thus creating an intrigue that goes a lot deeper once the music has been experienced.

Karma is indeed blessed with beauty, its sparse and unassuming notes are backed with a high intensity of rhythms that embellish the ears with a seducing lilt. In its heart is pure expression that just reaches out and explores a tempting passion, and although slow paced has meaning. Surprisingly enough the vocal accompaniment is low toned and raspy and comes in quite late on the recording, but that must be because the track is actually a whopping eighteen minutes and eight seconds long, thus allowing the listener plenty of time to get accustomed to its genre.

Damodara Stotra is a pleasing melodic passage that winds its way along a shadowy soundscape. The gruff vocals present themselves early on and are accompanied by an ambling and lingering rhythm. With compelling guitar and forthright drumming it makes for a good solid track with bewitching bass hooks. There is also a dream-like moment further on in the song that bristles with beauty and sheer professionalism.

In Search of Self beings with it a haunting keyboard that sends shock waves down your spine! It unfolds with a magical and mischievous rhythm that is captivating and quite rustic. Its fluid movement carries it, creating colourful hues of excitement as then the large slabs of metal suddenly burst through its cool façade, revealing that raspy gruff toned vocal. The climate and emotion of the track is matched with a dark atmospheric energy that radiates a purposeful intensity.

Fragments of Eternity At just seven minutes and five seconds this is the shortest track on the E.P and the bands title track. Its glorious harmonies and sweet rhythms display a quaint sound that with the haunting female as well as male vocal and sung in Russian are simply exquisite and seducing.

This is not your everyday listening! It is something to savour for those times when you want to relax and wash away the troubles of the day. Although, saying that, it does hold a particularly deep metal rhythm in places, but the main bulk of the E.P takes you on a special journey and allows you to become one with the music.

Its reflective charms outline what the band have created through beauty in music and singing in their mother tongue only adds further warmth to something that can be utterly beautiful and yet have a colder side, so multifaceted.

9/10

Source: Demented Magazine