AESMA DAEVA: Dawn of the New Athens CD. RARE. Orchestral opera metal, operatic metal. Ex-Therion female singer Lori Lewis. Check audio.

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Aesma Daeva – Dawn of the New Athens

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Full-length, Root Of All Evil
March 8th, 2007
1. Tiszas Child 06:36
2. The Bluish Shade 05:14
3. Artemis 06:22
4. Hymn to the Sun 04:21
5. D’Oreste 03:25
6. The Camp of Souls 05:36
7. Ancient Verses 04:32
8. Since the Machine 06:49
9. The Loon 06:32
Total playing time 49:29


Note: Buy this CD and get a free promo CD-R from Aesma Daeva, containing 4 non album songs (40 minute in length) !!!  1. The Minstrel Song 04:55         2.  Overature 04:24  (instrumental )    3.   The Eros of Frigid Beauty 17:31    4.  In My Holy Time 13:25     


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opera metal, but they go further than mindless avant-garde junk. The opera singer is Lori Lewis, and she sings A LOT. And, more importantly, every single inch is metal. Orchestral, operatic metal, but still metal.  And above all it doesn’t sound like Therion. It doesn’t have anything to do with Therion. Though the composition is radically different compared to the previous albums, Dawn of the New Athens strangely retains a specific Aesma Daeva spirit, quite unique and (thus?) hard to describe. The conventional backing orchestrations which are the law of the – bastard – genre are present but not to the point they’d overwhelm the guitars, drums and vocals, so nothing to complain about even if, to be honest, said orchestrations don’t really vary from one track to the other and weren’t exactly indispensable. Further, though this album doesn’t feature any choir Lori Lewis makes this latter unnecessary. She is the opera herself, to the point some tracks become like caricatures. Listen to D’Oreste, the most obvious example: the guys even used Italian lyrics, the language the layman usually associates with opera (hem… don’t forget Richard Wagner, good Sir) and, though miss Lewis simply sounds astonishing, at such a point Id rather listen to plain opera. Showy, far, far too showy, if you see what I mean.

Hell, just tell me about the opener Tiszas Child instead. If Lori may appear more reasonable here this doesn’t prevent her from singing very well, on the contrary; and at least the listener is more likely to appreciate the whole music at its true value A GENUINE DOOM RIFF, you heard well, and not one of the least, hands down. Who could have believed, listening to the abomination known as The Eros of Frigid Beauty, this band would one day record a doom song? Of course there’s still the atmospheric intro, but unlike before it fits quite well with the rest. The haunting hymn to chastity Artemis is another strong cut, not really a new song as its merely a remix from a track from the previous album. The best track from the previous album, should we add; granted this wasn’t very difficult. Still once again the hypnotic leitmotiv of the bawu, this odd Chinese instrument, hits its target, while Loris melancholic tone adds another flavour to this piece seemingly coming from remote, ancient times. Eventually The Loon works as a slow, intensively sad closer once again enhanced with a certain doom-ish vibe, though to this respect Tiszas Child works better.

Hymn to the Sun leans too much towards the over-operatic side to be fully honest. The Camp of Souls is a slow song. The Bluish Shade and Ancient Verses are both solid mid-tempo hymns.

Opera metal? Indeed, worth a listen.

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