An Inferna - DSM

French formation AD INFERNA pleases the fans again with a brand new and this time completely electronic album entitled ‘DSM’ which seems to be raising the band to a higher level of musical development. The CD immediately wins one’s favour as it starts with an intriguing intro that contains some kind of introduction speech as well. But the attention is mostly attracted by its tranquil melody which only at the very end is supplemented with harsh electronic echoes and the music gradually flows into the next composition. Its beginning it’s quite peaceful but in almost no second it’s gaining power that is combined with softness and delicacy expressed by female vocals. The following track called ‘Der Ball der Verdammten’ is more vigorous and apparently aggressive and it’s even opens by a dialogue looking like a quarrel that further passes into the music.

The songs with English titles such as ‘The Second Half of the Sky’ and ‘The Other Side of Me’ bring in a feeling of somewhat light melancholy or dark romance, maybe because of the lyrics and the calmer manner of singing comparing to the previous tracks. The pulsing rhythm of the latter seems to join with your own pulse and penetrate into every single cell of your body. All the tracks have something in common by despite that each composition is interesting and unique and it’s hard to choose the best ones out of this diversity. Anyway I’d like to mark out a couple of songs that I found the most interesting and atmospheric. One of them is ‘Celeste’ which is followed by an interlude of something of the kind called ‘Dimension Zero’.

So it may signify the end of the first part of the material and the beginning of the second that contains the other track which deserves a special attention and is called ‘Coma (La Fin des Rêves)’. The song is rather unusual for the album nevertheless really great and it carries a listener away to a dreamland where all those dreams find their end according to the title of the composition. The remixes presented on the CD are really good and in whole ‘DSM’ is quite successful and will definitely suit the taste of all lovers of qualitative electronic music.


Tracklist

01. Prémices – 1:23

02. Omniscience – 4:01

03. Der Ball der Verdammten – 5:33

06. Crime Body – 4:55

07. Celeste – 5:16

08. Dimension Zero – 1:04

09. Verklärte – 3:37