14/11/2023
Thine Inner Sanctum: The Coming of The Dawn (2023) - mini-review
UK band Thine Inner Sanctum are out with the album "The Coming of The Dawn", and metal is the style explored on this production. It is quite the dynamic production this one, and atmospheric laden is a key expression in that particular context. Slow and mournful escapades with more of an elegant doom metal foundation coexist nicely with more primal and grim sounding takes on the same style. Folk music elements and gentler interludes is an important part of the experience too, and dremladen sections and songs with a borderline ambient music orientation and the use of cold and chill keyboard textures is just about as vital for the experience here. Clean and distorted male vocals combine and alternate with a female singer that have more of a cold, dreamladen and borderline ethereal presence here, a combination that works really well as a contrast that adds nerve, tension and a stronger presence to the landscapes explored. This is a compilation album, featuring reworked earlier songs and a couple of new songs, and one detail of note is that the level of mastering as well as the recording quality comes across as uneven from one song to the next. Something that does disrupt the album experience part of listening tot his production somewhat. Otherwise my impression is that the recording quality range from passable to good, which adds a bit of emphasis to the album experience coming across as uneven. But if those are features you can tolerate and you otherwise find emotional laden, mournful and a bit chill variety of atmospheric metal with dreamladen and ethereal qualities to be of general interest, then this is a compilation album that do have a lot to offer.
https://thineinnersanctumuk.bandcamp.com/album/the-coming-of-the-dawn
Thine Inner Sanctum, Metal Devastation PR
