EXCLUSIVE: The Story of the Epic Fall into Darkness of (Kingdom of Horrors) by Dimlight

The Story of the Epic Fall into  Darkness of Kingdom of Horrors 

Album by Dimlight

This month impressive and talented Greek Symphonic Metal band 

Dimlight will release their new album "Kingdom of Horrors." Actually, I was lucky enough as I am the first reviewer who witnessed a whole live streaming session for the album. Through this review, you may have a hint or a background about what you are going to see on the stage in the upcoming Metal Blast Festival

Release Details

Band: Dimlight

Genre: Symphonic Metal

Origin: Greece

Release Title: Kingdom of Horrors

Release Type: Full Length Album

Release Date: 2018

Rate: 9/10

Tracklist: "The Red King", "Berly Eyes", "We, the Bones", "Into the Thrice Unknown Darkness", "Beyond the Gates of Horror", "The Ecstasy of the Hunt", "Tower of Silence", "Serpents Pact", "Lapis Anime", "Bleeding Sunrise

,Band Members: Peter, Nikolas, Jim, Mora
Marios and Apostolis 

The Story

Dimlight's "Kingdom of Horrors" follows a mythical story of a man who finds himself tormented and lost. He seeks some sort of

salvation so he listens to the nature surrounds him

Through his journey, he faces a lot of battles, horror, fears, and inner conflicts. Finally, he decides to set himself free. This is the story simply, and we will trace together each chapter of this story through the songs of 

the album

The Review

The album initiates with sounds of blood, crime, winds, and a horrific orchestral sounds. Shortly, those sounds are accompanied with narrative sound. The story begins! I advise you to watch the teaser of the album as it expresses the main concept of the album

You can watch a man who decides to escape to mountains, and hanged, high trees in a call for salvation

PS: There is a narrative part before each track

The Red King is the first track of the album. It starts with harmonious symphonic sounds with fast-tempo music. The riffs are very dynamic, powerful and they are backed with well-structured orchestral base

The track simply reflects the first shock of the album's hero when he finds lost, and tormented

Before the second track "Berly Eyes", there is another narrative part gives you a hint about the upcoming chapter

The song reflects a deep shock for our hero when he realizes that the world doesn't seem as he believes. So, through the music, you can trace the reflected colors, the demonic voices, the beginning of fear, and horror

The music of the track is full of headbanging riffs, black painted melodic tunes; epic symphonic sounds enrich the rhythms. The track carries powerful progression of sounds and the combination between the female vocals with high pitches, strong, attractive growling with echoing voice of choirs

We, the Bones is the upcoming chapter. It is one of the most extreme, and horrific tracks in the album

You can touch the taste of fear, and hunger through the alerting, energetic guitar melodies, and the beautiful reflective symphonic background

The lines of the orchestra beautifully, accurately mixed with the Guitars, and Drums. The orchestral lines somehow ring the bells to Septicflesh symphonic taste. The music portrays deeply the real suffering, and tragic agony. Through different gear shifts, and various fast tempos

Into the Thrice Known Darkness is like a musical break, and it is the most melancholic track in the album in my point of view. It is full of Gothic darkened sadness represented in beautiful Mora's sound

 Mora's performance is closer to Evanescence's "Like You" performance and mood. Yeah, they may so close in death mood, but they also close in vocal structure. It also carries Sounds of emotional weeping keys, the feelings of fast breaths as death is around

Beyond the Gates of Horror is in my point of view an audio representation for the epic "The Marriage between Heaven and Hell" drowning by the iconic English poet and Illustrator William Blake

Epic symphonic intro symbolizes inner fights, drastic eternal and external battle

Hyper, powerful musical structures wander between different tastes of extreme symphonic music

Reflecting a running wounded souls into the deep rooms of darkness. I like the symphonic interludes between the extreme parts; it is like a call for a deeper imagination

The Ecstasy of the Hunt is a continuation for the fight so the status of waving, flooding tunes is still on. High rhythmic melodies like running into mazes, screaming high, shifting weapons, and flying parts. One of the special features of this track is Peter's performance

The track carries different extreme parts, different parts of growling but Peter's vocals are like the real transitional powers of this track. He controls, and leads his vocal chords powerfully to grab your ears into the music

The musical combination that represented in this track captures a horrific shocking image for a bloody battle

Tower of Silence reflects like deeper, blacker feelings. It carries real sound of silence death, or thinking of death, echoing pain of dying falling souls expressed in melodic, dynamic riffs. High presence of choirs enriches the weight of fight

Serpents Pact beginning is somehow interesting! In the narrative part before the song mentions "say my name" which is repeated in the first second of the song with terrifying and strong screaming, the flooded riffs, the blasting drums, the second narrative parts within this melodic orchestra 

Lapis Anime carries distinctive keys/orchestral work. It represents the epic fall, the tragic fall. Its extreme melodic mood signifies calling for freedom

Finally, Bleeding Sunrise which tells the phase of heroic tragic fall or the end of our hero after all these battles. He realizes that the best way of asking salvation is going to death bravely

That's why this song is the most one carries a longer, clearer orchestral and keys lines. Actually, I consider this track as a whole epic within itself

The intro is as exposition, or the inner blaming voice, then the dynamic active tunes of guitars are like the rising action, or taking the action of death, next the weeping, mourning sounds is like the falling curtains or writing "the end" phrase for this story. The high screams, the strong growling, the catchy female voice with its high pitches dramatized this epic fall

Summing Up  

Actually, I don't have nothing to add more than I mentioned above. The album is really epic, well-written and well-performed. I want to greet the great man and his catchy narrative voice, the storyteller Marios Koutsoukos

The harmony between the vocalists is great and good arranged and performed. The lines of guitars and bass manage to reflect different degrees of darkness, blackness, fear, horror, strength, and weakness

The blasting drum beats energized the sense of epic. Finally the catchy, wonderful symphonic/orchestral structure and keys are really beautifully written, and 

arranged accurately with the rest of the instruments

You as a listener you can trace different Greek symphonic Black/Death Metal, and Gothic influences

Metalheads in Egypt make sure to witness this epic heroic fall on the stage of Cairo as this piece of art will be revealed to the world from the lands of the river Nile and the pyramids

The only negative point of this album is represented in the mixed volumes of lines! Sometimes I feel that there is some sort of noise or mis-mixed sounds between the instruments and the orchestra

Originally Published on 15/10/2018 at 2:03 am