"Dark Age - A Matter of Trust" A Pleasent Anticipation

Dark Age

A Matter of Trust

Melodic Hard Rock

2013

Dark Age is a german metal band, that played melodic death metal for a long time, with a brilliant mixture of fast drums, brutal growls and shouts, but also clear vocals (in the refrains), sweet depressing lyrics and one of the best guitar melodies I know. You could go nuts to a song and at the same time dwell in melancholia... or just go nuts to a killer song. One of my favorites that brings it all together, is Kingdom Never Come from Acedia 2009 (their latest album).

I'm dying, while trying

I'm so close to get

A Life like all Others

Fall back on Regret

Will I ever be Myself again?

I'm building my Kingdom Nevercome...

But this time seems to be over, somehow. Because after 4 long years they release this new album A Matter of Trust at 2013.09.06. They released snippets of every song on their Facebook-page and the new single Afterlife.

As you can hear, they sound very soft now, just because the growls are missing and were completely replaced by clean vox from singer Eike, which sound more awesome than ever. I was told that they sound like Muse, which I can't confirm, simply because I didn't listen to them before. But I don't think that Muse have these riffs, which are still typical Dark Age. Most of the songs they show in the snippets, I could easily assign to Dark Age, IF they had the growls instead of the cleans. But you also hear a few of them in the extracts, which makes me hope that there are more in the album. I absolutely like the new way, but I think their music loses a lot of its former power, just because the voice isn't that aggressive anymore, although the guitars still make their thing like in the albums before.

In not even 2 weeks we will know more about it, when the special edition comes to me. 

And all i wanted to say is, that I'm really excited about this release!