Eclectika – Dazzling Down

Releasedate: 2010; Label: Asylum Ruins
By: Sabine van Gameren

The French band Eclectika releases their second album: “Dazzling Down”.

The band seem to come with the idea to bring Black Metal extravaganza. In originality the band already failed, mainly because there is so much unnecessary elements in their music. Already early in the album you have the idea that when the band stayed true to the basics it would have been a bigger success. Effects, female vocals that tend to be off key and complete instrumental chaos, instruments just dont match in this way, are very distracting and could have been left away or kept to an absolute minimum. There is no atmosphere in the music and it could have been so cold and sinister when the band had chosen to keep it simple. The songs where no female vocals appear are already better to follow, these vocals never really added something so the band should maybe find another way to implement these or leave them out at all, in this way it just does not work out.
One of the more positive sides of this album is the artwork. It’s a bit dreamy. In the booklet you’ll find a different image on each page, making clear this is not a complete book, but rather different stories with a common theme.
Maybe the next album will bring something better, this one disappointed a lot. Expectation were higher and so is the standard.

Line Up:
Alexandra Lemone – Vocals
Aurelien Pers – Vocals
Sebastien Regnier – Vocals & instruments

Tracklist: 01. The End 02. Dazzling Dawn 03. Sophist Revenge 04. Les Démons Obsédants Du Regret 05. There Is No Daylight In The Darkest Paradise 06. Experience 835 07. The Next Blue Exoplanet 08. Marble Altar 09. Stokholm Syndrome 10. 11 Corps Décharnés

Links:
Eclectika Official