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	<<back Band: ASGUARD Country: Belarus Product title: Dreamslave Kind of product: Full-lenght CD Release year: 2005 Label: This Dark Reign Recordings Genre: melodic black metal Line-up: Alexander Afonchenko (v/b) Andrey Tselobenok (g) Oleg Maslakov (g) Sergey Tselobenok (d) Tracks: Act I - 1. There is no Time for Inaction 2. Under the Silent Moon 3. Dreamslave 4. Masquerade Act II - 5. In the World of Violence and Lies 6. Master of Everything 7. Supremacy Over the World 8. The Main Art of Mortal 9. Slave Forever Act III - 10. Time of Eternal Dream 11. Crash of Hope 12. Last Day of the Real Existence 13. Eternal Dream Act IV - 14. Infinite Road to Hell 15. Dark Veil of Dreams 16. Where Once the Moon Rose Total time: 50:28 min. Review: "Dreamslave" is the second album for 2005 brought by these four talented Belarussians. I would describe it as a combination of their first one and their demo plus a lot of keyboards and synths. So I guess you can imagine the complexity of this album and this time it is both more aggressive and more melodic than the previous and maybe that makes it a little too spiced for my tastes or maybe a little average and there are tracks that I don't really have the patience to listen to entirely as they are as others. This might be because the guitars slowed down a bit giving space to keyboards to make the artifices this time and in my oppinion that's wrong as so many band already did this; the whole instrumental part went more black/death than heavy metal this time. It is not a bad recording at all but honestly I prefer the first one, that's for sure. Still, there are some tracks that can make a whole album, and here I'm talking about "Crash of Hope" and "Dark Veil of Dreams" that are simply beautyful both in melody and technical. Maybe that's the whole idea, to make an album as diverse and complex as they can, but I think this time the idea failed and they should return to that twin-guitar-based music they used to do. At the moment Asguard is interesting, but not so catchy. Contact: www.devildollrecords.com

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Band: ASGUARD
Country: Belarus
Product title: Dreamslave
Kind of product: Full-lenght CD
Release year: 2005
Label: This Dark Reign Recordings
Genre: melodic black metal
Line-up: Alexander Afonchenko (v/b)
Andrey Tselobenok (g)
Oleg Maslakov (g)
Sergey Tselobenok (d)
Tracks: Act I - 1. There is no Time for Inaction
2. Under the Silent Moon
3. Dreamslave
4. Masquerade
Act II - 5. In the World of Violence and Lies
6. Master of Everything
7. Supremacy Over the World
8. The Main Art of Mortal
9. Slave Forever
Act III - 10. Time of Eternal Dream
11. Crash of Hope
12. Last Day of the Real Existence
13. Eternal Dream
Act IV - 14. Infinite Road to Hell
15. Dark Veil of Dreams
16. Where Once the Moon Rose
Total time: 50:28 min.

Review: "Dreamslave" is the second album for 2005 brought by these four talented Belarussians. I would describe it as a combination of their first one and their demo plus a lot of keyboards and synths. So I guess you can imagine the complexity of this album and this time it is both more aggressive and more melodic than the previous and maybe that makes it a little too spiced for my tastes or maybe a little average and there are tracks that I don't really have the patience to listen to entirely as they are as others. This might be because the guitars slowed down a bit giving space to keyboards to make the artifices this time and in my oppinion that's wrong as so many band already did this; the whole instrumental part went more black/death than heavy metal this time. It is not a bad recording at all but honestly I prefer the first one, that's for sure. Still, there are some tracks that can make a whole album, and here I'm talking about "Crash of Hope" and "Dark Veil of Dreams" that are simply beautyful both in melody and technical. Maybe that's the whole idea, to make an album as diverse and complex as they can, but I think this time the idea failed and they should return to that twin-guitar-based music they used to do. At the moment Asguard is interesting, but not so catchy.

Contact: www.devildollrecords.com