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Artist: Black Light Discipline
Title: Against Each Other
Genre: Industrial / Electro / Gothic Metal
Release Date: 9th March 2012
Label: Danse Macabre


Album Review

The Finnish BLACK LIGHT DISCIPLINE with their second album, ‘Against Each Other’ - and four more Singles - they have managed to climb to the top echelons not only of the charts but much more importantly of their genre. Uplifting and catchy as hell, the band manages to capture a whole breadth of Electro and Gothic Rock music and to wrap them with memorable and captivating riffs, hooks, and beats. In other words, BLD is close to be considered the ABBA of Gothic Metal! For that the credit surely goes to Toni Vahla whose vocal abilities are astonishing as he is able to traverse the versatile breadth of the songs. And he does that with ease and confidence aided by Karoliina Kallio as second vocals.

The opening ‘Against Each Other’ is an aggressive anthem that is not short of its melodic aspects. As far it goes for the rest of songs ‘Walls Inside Us’, ‘Serene’, and ‘Self Control’ (the remix of the classic 80’s song by Laura Branigan) stood out the most. To start with the last one, it is utterly danceable and more edgy though it shows respect to the original one. ‘Walls Inside Us’ is moving in the area of Melodic Gothic Rock while ‘Serene’ is moving, musically speaking, somewhere between the NIGHTWISH and THERION. In short, this is one of the finest releases of 2012. The BLACK LIGHT DISCIPLINE have delivered a high quality album, where the songs prove to have above all the aforementioned characteristics, the necessary diversity and they are so without any loss to the fine standards of the band.


Tracklist

01. Against Each Other
02. Walls Inside Us
03. Red Rivers
04. Flies Over The Wreck
05. Waiting For The Rain
06. Serene
07. Being And Ending
08. Self Control
09. Aggressor
10. Closer To The Sun


Line-up

Toni Valha – Vocals
Janne Kankkunen – Synths
Joonas Pulkkinen– Guitar
Veikka Jokela – Drums
Jani Rissanen – Bass


Websites

https://www.facebook.com/BlackLightDiscipline / http://www.bld.fi


Cover Picture

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Rating

Music: 9
Sound: 9
Total: 9 / 10

Buy the album here!


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