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Meet Braindance, a highly talented five-piece from New York. Although
"Redemption" will be their third release, I have to admit that I haven't
heard this bands music before. I've read great stuff about them , but I
always thought they were too odd for my taste, but guess what, I was
terribly wrong. This was a very pleasant surprise and introduction to a
unique and truly different band. Just check out the songtitles for a
foretaste of what I'm talking about.
As the biography sais, they have created their own musical direction
termed "progressive darkwave", and I guess that is a very suitable
description of their music, because the music isn't exactly easy to put
into any category. Braindance describe themselves as
"cinematic-neuromantic progressive new age gothic metal Fusion" and if
that hasn't made you curious, then nothing will.
This pre-production tape has eight songs from the forthcoming cd. The
cassette starts off with "Refracture", which has some serious cool and
catchy sliding bass lines at the beginning of the song, to be followed
by a nice start/stop guitar attack and the deep vocals of Sebastian
Elliot. The song has a strong melody line and a good chorus.
Track two "Resurgence" starts with really awesome rhythm orchestration,
and a good melodyline sung by a very alive and emotive Sebastian Elliot.
This song has a more uptempo approach and is catchy as hell.
Track three "Resilience" starts with only bass, solo guitar and a choir
effect for then to slow down when the vocals begins. Very good song once
again.
Track four "Reflexion", starts off with atmospheric keyboards and deep
vocals ala Peter Steele just to give you a clue of the vocal style. This
song is slow, dark, sad and beautiful and it makes you want to turn the
lights off and put on your headphones, let your body and mind go and
"float" with the music, because this music is HUGE and powerful.
There are four more tracks on this cassette (Resurrection, Relentless,
Return and Redemption) which all follow the fine style and direction as
the abovementioned tracks. All songs are of high standard and some of
the songs are among the best I have heard in a long long time.
The titletrack is such a sad, beautiful, atmospheric, melodic and
haunting song, that really touches me inside. This band has an
incredible ear and understanding for immense melodies. The music is
dark, melancholy, emotive, scary, floating, atmospheric, intricate,
melodic, intelligent and at the same time extremely beautiful.
Sebastians deep emotive vocals and the superb orchestration and rhythms
by the band make this music a truly special experience. Unique and
majestic, unlike everything you have ever heard. Also worth mentioning
is the tasty fretwork of guitarist Vora Vor.
Braindance combine influences from many different musical directions to
create a musical expression I've never heard before. As well as
creating intelligent music they are extremely gifted as musicians too. I
know I just keep on raving about this band, but truthfully, I can't
really put my finger on anything negative on this cassette. I'm
completely blown away by this band.
As most of the visitors at this site are fans of progressive rock and
metal, I would like to say that you should not hesitate buying this
bands music, you will find plenty of influences from various progressive
metal bands and much more. It should appeal to you even though their
music is a bit different than the typical prog rock/metal stuff. Every
fan of intelligent music should have this cd in their collection when
it's released. Essential !
Now it's time to check out their previous releases, this stuff left me
begging for more.
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