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BLUE DAWN - Reflections from an unseen world - Reviewed By metal-integral ! Check it out here at this link: http://www.metal-integral.com/fr/chroniques/8688/blue-dawn/chronique-reflections-from-an-unseen-world.html

Ah! I feel perky when I discover a nugget of the underground in the middle of a whole bunch of banal, boring or unlistenable releases. This is the case today thanks to Reflections From An Unseen World .

Founded in 2009 in Genoa, despite already having three albums, BLUE DAWN has remained quite confidential, it seems to me. Well, things might change because their new album is particularly interesting.

BLUE DAWNplays music that I would classify as old school hard rock, 70s progressive or psychedelic rock, and heavy/doom metal. It emanates from the titles a melancholic aura essentially due to the voice of the singer, and a deep darkness in the singer. The melodies are very elaborate and very effective and the guitar solos are not only brilliant but particularly readable, intelligent and complementary to the melodic framework. I stop for a few moments on the case of this solo guitarist: Davide BRUZZI filled my ears with the incredible solo that explodes at the opening of the album, just after the piano intro. For comparison, he reminded me of the virtuosity of his compatriot Simone FALOVO of ELEKTRADRIVE .

From the point of view of influences, there is of course BLACK SABBATH (whose group also covers Who Are You? ) but overall, I felt the doom and distressing side of the masters from the first track, Hostage Of Grudge and this continues with Praise Of Folly or From Hell .
To this is added in the construction of the pieces, in the incorporation of keyboards, in certain bridges or certain bass lines, a strong influence of BLUE ÖYSTER CULT . How, for example, can you not think of BÖC's Sole Survivor when hearing Sea Of Glass ?

Look out, don't make me say what I didn't say, BLUE DAWNdon't get stuck in 70s proto metal. The band is quite capable of shifting into a real heavy metal power – see the rhythm of Damage Done which tumbles on the double bass drum and delivers almost thrash stop and go. I adore.

The album contains real gems like Hostage Of Grudge (what guitar parts!), the burning Damage Done , the astonishing Sea Of Glass with an excellent sax solo, and this instrumental which sits in the center , A Blue Monster In My Heart , which is both melodic, punchy and very imaginative. Cheer !

The production is honest despite a few points that catch my ears a bit. To my taste – because it's only a matter of taste – I would have hoped for a singer with a little less melancholy and a little more madness. Reflections From An Unseen World is nonetheless an unexpected, varied and very endearing album that deserves to be discovered, and more so.

PS - If you track down the collector, know that in addition to the normal CD and LP media, the album comes out on red vinyl in only 66 copies. metal-integral