STORMY ATMOSPHERE “Pent Letters”

Total Metal Records / Metal Scrab Records 2015

Music: Progressive Art Metal
Website: https://www.facebook.com/stormyatmosphere
Duration: 71:52 minutes (15 tracks)
Country: Israel

I present the band under the name of STORMY ATMOSPHERE and their fifteen-tracks album “Pent Letters”. The band of five members performed their songs in two voices, male and female. If I mean the vocals that they not always work well with themselves. Sometimes I have the feeling that, instead to be complement, that they interfere themselves, thus it affects for their quality. Especially the female vocals, stylized to opera, are not always sounds clear and even they are out of tune. Much better is in the case of the male vocals, but this depends largely on the sound. All is matter of taste and preference. Right. Each band creating a musical idea wants to surprise the listener and they want to be good in their creativity. A recipient decides whether he feels the music it or not. I more like the male’s vocals in this band – melodic with a claw, which it sounds better and more interesting for me. But without undue criticism for the female vocalist that sounds decent, and when she sings in a lower, softer tones then she creates a beautiful background music. However, I have taste, which is based on such vocalists as Tarja Turunen and the female singing from the album don’t make impress on me. But still I emphasize that it is only a matter of taste. But Dina should do some work for the purity of voice.

The band sounds instrumental really interesting, extremely ingenious. They have the interesting introductions to songs that sound like a movie, the strange sounds in the background as the announcement of something. Distorted guitars with extended virtuoso solos are encouraging and it really presents a high level of creativity. Extensive are also important parts made on the keyboard, which are another confirmation that musicians are technically distinctive. They have really good taste of music.

The compositions of songs are kept in the dark atmosphere with the grotesque element like from the movies of Tim Burton. The tracks are very complex and it causes the impression that we are not able to encompass all the themes and musical motives at first listen. To create such an interesting material, in addition to regular members of the team they invited many additional vocalists,like Tom S. Englund from EVERGREY, who lent his voice in the song “The Menippeah.”

To sum the creativity of the band, it is recommendable team with one fault that it should be mend, and it is the feminine vocals. And then they will conquer the hearts of the audience by following the next interesting musical works, because I think they have more to offer.

Tracklist:
1. Afterlight
2. The Way Home
3. First Day
4. Science Fiction
5. First Year
6. Historical Adventure
7. Hour
8. The Menippeah
9. While
10. Suspense
11. Gothic Dread
12. Decennary
13. Tragic Play
14. Outcome
15. Time

Line-up:
Dina Shulman – Vocals
Teddy Shvets – Vocals
Eduard Krakov – Keyboards
Stas Sergienko – Guitar
Max Man – Bass
Artyom (Tommy) Tenenbaum – Drums

Rate: 9.0/10