Music: Progressive Doom/Death Metal
Website: http://www.myspace.com/lightrussia
Country: Russia
Cool songs: Feeling the Pain of Loss, I Am Waiting the Sunrise, They – Pain, Tears of Emptiness
All you need to know about LIGHT? is that Eugeny Churkin is the one man army, being the king of this one-piece formation from Russia. Created in 2002, Eugeny recorded two full-length CDs. Mirrors is his debut album, released by Stygian Crypt Records in 2005.
Mirrors is a varied album, full of different content, indicating influences by death gothic and pagan folk metal, with developed and very poetic acoustic parts. The heavy and fleshy riffs can shake the ground, but when the atmosphere becomes too solid, melancholic and romantic tunes take the lead. To be frank, those slower, lazy, mysterious even elements, have the majority here. Because as in a model doom metal compositions, those elements dominate in every track. Therefore the music becomes multi-dimensional and sounds more interesting. But on the other hand, the multitude of dull motifs can really bring down, tire, and finally bore. Perfect doom, but a slight tune of progress would be desired here. So, only the fans of such play will be satisfied by this album, and I mean it.
LIGHT? recorded an album which is uneasy to place, as different styles shoot out of it during each composition. This mixture is quite interesting, but tires after some time. Mainly thanks to the repetitions – fourteen tracks – over one hour of music – it is obvious, that things had to repeat.
note: 6.5/10
Tracklist
1. …Looking Through a Prism of Inevitability
2. Trying to Leave from Reality
3. Feeling the Pain of Loss
4. I Hear the Voices of the Past
5. I Am Waiting the Sunrise
6. Faces…
7. They – Tears
8. They – Pain
9. They – Time
10. Time Is Face on the Water
11. Tears of Emptiness
12. …And She Kisses Clear Rain
13. But We'll Stay
14. Beyond the Mirrors
Total playing time 67:00
Line-up
Eugeny Churkin – all instruments, vocals
Alexey Smirnov – session vocalists
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