Nachtschatten – Prolog

Releasedate: 2015; Label: Sonic Revolution
By: Sabine van Gameren

Nachtschatten is a Melodic Death Metal formation from Germany that founded in 2010. The band comes with their debut full length album called: “Prolog”.

As the title may suspect the band has an album full with German lyrics. Not always a great thing for the international market as we have seen many bands before passing by and never hit ground. A first listen to this release makes us realize that this time it could be different. The vocals are not articulated to its limit what others sometimes seem to do, therefore it is much more pleasant to listen to and is the tendency to listen to the actual words and music much higher.
The music has a recognizable sound, you pick it up quite easily and before you know it you are humming along, sometimes it makes you feel like you heard it before and this may be the trap that is laying around for these guys, the must maintain putting attention to give it their own face because they are dancing on the fine line with something we heard too often already.

“Prolog” being their first one, they delivered a good album though. You hear the guys have the skills and when they continue to build and experiment on what they have we might expect some surprises from them in future.

Line up:
Daniel Wengle – Vocals
Andreas Siefert – Guitar
Sascha Dörr – Guitar
Pascal Fitterer – Drums

Tracklist: 01. Feuersturm 02. Blitzschlag 03. Morgendämmerung 04. Dunkle Sonne 05. Takt der Maschinen 06. Lauft! 07. Zeichen des Untergangs 08. Letze Schlacht 09. Goldene Schlösser 10. Trauerweide 11. Weltschmerz 12. Rum im Grog

Links:
Nachtschatten Official