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Restless Oblivion - Sands Of Time (CD)

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Solitude Productions proudly presents a debut album by a young Russian band Restless Oblivion with a poetic title «Sands Of Time». Unbelievably atmospheric and melodic material in the frames of classical doom death metal does not mimic any famous bands or follow templates, this is the original music in the best traditions of the genre which make it attractive for the audience of this gloom music style. Seven full-length tracks not only discover themselves before the listeners, but inspire specific soul mood. Musicians of avant-garde doom death metal band Aglaomorpha took part in revision of keyboard parties and samples as well as in recording hidden tracks «Prologue» and «Epilogue» thus introducing ambient elements for deeper listener diving into unsteady sands of time.

Tracklist:
1 Prologue 2:40
2 Deadline Of Essence 6:15
3 Edge Of Existence 7:28
4 Resolution Of Slavish Pain 8:11
5 Like The Hope Of Escape 7:23
6 Sands Of Time 5:51
7 Our Tunnel Light 8:15
8 Sin Of Pure Life 10:05
9 Epilogue 1:50

Artist:
Restless Oblivion
Artist Country:
Russia
Album Year:
2014
Title:
Sands Of Time
Genre:
doom death
Format:
CD
Type:
CD Album
Package:
Jewel Case
Label:
Solitude Productions
Cat Num:
SP. 086-14
Release Year:
2014
Barcode:
4 627080 610545
Country Of Manufacture:
Russia
Review
Metal.de
6/10
25.03.2014

Man möchte die junge russische Band RESTLESS OBLIVION eigentlich lieben: Die Band gibt sich nicht nur geschmackssicher, indem sie ihren Bandnamen einem alten ANATHEMA-Song entlehnt hat, sondern orientiert sich auf ihrem Debütalbum "Sands Of Time" auch an den Dänen-Doomstern SATURNUS: Da gibt es langsame Songs mit prägnanten Gitarrenleads, flächigen Keyboards, ultratiefen Vocals und jeder Menge Atmosphäre. In den Songs werden Verzweiflung, Niedergeschlagenheit, aber auch Hoffnung, Sanftheit und lichte Momente ausgedrückt, und bisweilen funktioniert das auch ganz gut.

Trotzdem möchte keine restlose Begeisterung aufkommen. Die Songs kommen bei allen guten Ansätzen nicht auf den Punkt. RESTLESS OBLIVION wissen um die Zutaten guter Death-Doom-Songs, haben daraus aber keine ergreifenden Stücke wie ihre dänischen Brüder im Geiste erschaffen, sondern eben nur Stückwerk. Ein paar gute Riffs hier und da und ein paar erhabenen Momente stehen auf der Habenseite. Wo ein Song jetzt aufhört und der nächste anfängt, lässt sich aber oftmals nicht so recht sagen. Symptomatisch, dass ich bislang bei jedem Durchgang gedacht habe, dass nach dem Titeltrack das Album zu Ende ist – stimmt aber nicht, denn da kommen immerhin noch zwei Stücke und das Outro – zusammen noch gut 20 Minuten Musik, die weder der Hörer noch das Album gebraucht hätte.

Wie gesagt – man möchte RESTLESS OBLIVION und "Sands Of Time" eigentlich lieben, aber das Album kann die Erwartungen leider nur ansatzweise erfüllen. Nicht von den Songs her, nicht von der Virtuosität der Musiker: Das ist alles solide und sauber eingespielt, aber die Gitarrenarbeit und die Drumfills hätten etwas mehr Abwechslung vertragen können, und der Gesang ist bei allem Gegrunze auch nicht ausdrucksstark. Das ist einigermaßen schade, aber RESTLESS OBLIVION sollten noch zu einer Steigerung imstande sein. Daher knapp …

Author: Eckart Maronde
Review
About.com
4/5

Their name is taken from a track on Anathema's 1995 album The Silent Enigma, so there's no doubt the Russian band Restless Oblivion are influenced by those Peaceville bands.

Sands Of Time incorporates those '90s death/doom influences with plodding funeral doom and a lot of atmosphere. Gurgling vocals and black metal style shrieks accompany the melancholy music that's sometimes dense, other times light and airy. It's an impeccably arranged and diverse effort.

Author: Chad Bowar
Review
Chronicles of Chaos
5/10
30.05.2014

With Solitude Productions you know the routine: with each batch of albums being released by this highly efficient Russian label (the label seems to release albums by batches, up to ten different new releases in each batch, rather than an album by album operation) the division goes something like 50% are completely bland and redundant, 30% are brilliant, timeless albums and the remaining 20% are total musical garbage.
Restless Oblivion's _Sands of Time_ belongs to the largest portion of average releases. How average? Painfully so. Why painfully so? Because the band own all the faculties potentially capable of creating something decent and memorable, but instead go the easy way, offering nothing more than sonic mediocrity. _Sands of Time_ is a typical Solitude Productions release: hailing from Russia, writing mostly uninspired melodies the likes of which we have listened to countless times before, displaying the usual low growler, the same soap-opera tragedy-laden riffs that have long since desensitized the listeners with their pedestrian niceties, and an array of lush keyboards that fail at impressing on a stand-alone criterion as well as fail at transcending the music beyond the habitual doom / death frequencies the speakers are spewing. The album is monolithic, uneventful and it treads safe waters -- maybe too safe and unadventurous.

The production is the usual Solitude Production sound, that is to say full and rounded and velvety smooth, enabling the music to sound heavier than it would have been with any other given production, tempering it with a pummeling force and smooth dynamics that are easy on the ear and well rewarding for those who would relate to that kind of metal.

However, all of the above mentioned 'treatments' the music underwent do not compensate for the lack of basic and most fundamental aspects of good music, mainly the songwriting ability and the capability to generate a certain robust, adequate atmosphere that will correspond with the music, complement it and serve as an additional musical instrument.

Those qualities are unfortunately poorly displayed on _Sands of Time_, and in addition you won't find any personality in the music of Restless Oblivion, in both senses of the word: it's neither personal, as in mirroring the singularity of the musicians behind the music, nor is it unique on any account, even when stretching this concept of originality beyond the immediate parameters.

The music is not bad per se, and that's what's frustrating here; it is good for what it is, but displays absolutely nothing you haven't heard before by innumerable other average musical entities such as Wine From Tears, When Nothing Remains, Mournful Gust, and so on and so forth. If you happen to like that brand of melodic doom /death, it might not do you any harm listening to _Sands of Time_, but then again, it might not do you any good, either.

Author: Chaim Drishner
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