Genre: Black Death Metal
Label: Paragon Records
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Dimentianon was born in 2002, in New York, and this "Dreaming Yuggoth", their fifth studio album, released by the American Paragon Records in July of this year, immediately highlights the fact that we are dealing with an underground band, but with absolute depth and high experience! The title of the album quotes Lovecraft's "He who whispered in the darkness", which presages that what you listen to is certainly not a bearer of Light, or at least not as it is usually understood!
The guitar lines played by Joe Fogazzaro are violent and they are the absolute protagonists in songs such as "Undying Bliss", "Her Discordant Majesty" where the listener is submerged by the overwhelming atmospheres. The evocativeness unleashed in the initial part of "Smoke Rising" is beautiful, which brings to mind a masterpiece such as "Svartalvheim" (Ancient), a prelude to a song that continues on more cadenced and mystical tempos, accompanied by the excellent synth's composition of Don Zaros from Evoken, a legendary band of the American Funeral Doom scene; in each song, especially in the slower parts, he can give the right imprint and a certain compositional dynamism. The beautiful instrumental "Dreaming Yuggoth", less violent and more reasoned, in which the singer M., an excellent screamer in the fastest parts for example in "Beyond the Screen", expresses his expressive versatility by inserting some ethereal and disturbing vocal lines; "Arx Laetus" develops in pure Funeral Doom and Depressive Black Metal style and "The Infinite Talisman" borders on a style very close to Dark Metal that is well suited to the leaden atmosphere that the song wants to convey. Listening almost comes to an end with "The Pathless Traveled" which, apart from the screaming, could be a song from the Evoken discography themselves, it is so heavy and evocative, to these adjectives we can add the ferocity of early 90's Death Metal and you can have a precise idea about this North American creature, Dimentianon.
Fulvio J.K.
