Dark The Suns – All Ends in Silence

Releasedate: 20-04-2009; Label: Firebox Records
By: Elvira Visser

To start off, this is jet one another band from Finland. We can say that they deliver good metal bands and this band comes from a town, where I have lived and never heard about them. Which is a shame because I must say the band is not bad to listen to and it would have been nice to catch them live. Well a missed opportunity there but lucky I have it coming out the speakers now. As said, the band hails from Jyväskylä, which produced many other bands like: Swallow the Sun, Sotajumala, Ghost Brigade and more. The band was originally founded as a solo project from Mikko Ojala, where he played all the instruments himself. Inferno magazine had picked up his demo and selected it as demo of the month. In 2006 Mikko moved to Jyväskylä and he finally found some musicians to form an actual band and perform.

Dark The Suns now released their new album “All Ends In Silence” on which you can hear beautiful piano melodies combined with dark vocals and growls. The CD has a nice atmosphere but to me it sounds like it is not all the band is capable of. Already with the first intro they set the tone of this album. A not screaming sound welcomes us before Mikko Ojala burst out in growling. The Dark melancholic atmosphere fills your speakers when the keyboards and guitars add some melody to the track.

I would define the band as dark metal with a touch of gothic influences. The sporadic female angelic voice, the growls and the whispers all together create that dark and gothic atmosphere. The track “All Ends in Silence” starts of slowly with paceful keyboard and drums but not for long as Mikko starts to growl how it all ends in silence. Dark the Suns knows how to build in slower emotional parts varying with the darker metal sound. The last track “Gone” starts slowly, again the keyboards who set the tone but there is room for the guitarist to play a solo and together building up a nice ending for this album. Overall I find this a good album, sounds good but somehow I think it might be a bit hold back, I think it could have been a tiny more rough at some places.

Links:
Dark The Suns MySpace
Dark The Suns Official