MOONRISE - The Dark River of Soul - CD

MOONRISE deliver their second full-length album after a long time. I am not quite sure what to make out of “The Dark River Of Soul”. It has some good songs like the title song, but it also has a few songs that cannot keep up with the better ones. The often fairly complex structures do not really help and make many songs indistinguishable from each other. Sometimes less is more and a few simple and catchier songs would have made the album more interesting to listen to. The sound of album is, however, pretty diverse and has its own character, since it is somewhere in between the traditional Melo death and classical Death Metal. The album is well produced. Fans of melodic Death Metal but also traditional Death Metal should give “The Dark River Of Soul” a listen and I am sure, some of them will dig the album.