Towards Atlantis Lights

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Towards Atlantis Lights
General information
Genre (s) Funeral doom
founding 2017
Website Towards Atlantis Lights on Facebook
Current occupation
Drums, percussion
 Ivano Olivieri
guitar
 Ivan Zara
Vocals, keyboard
 Kostas Panagiotou
Electric bass
 Riccardo Veronese

Towards Atlantis Lights is a funeral doom band founded in 2017 .

history

Towards Atlantis Lights was originally founded as a solo project by Ivan Zara from Void of Silence . Before the first recordings, Zara invited the drummer Ivano Olivieri as well as the singer and keyboardist from Pantheist and Wijlen Wij Kostas Panagiotou and the bassist from Arrant Saudade and Aphonic Threnody Riccardo Veronese to the group. Despite the design as a band, Zara wrote the music without the other musicians. Panagiotou, however, wrote all of the lyrics. Just one year after the official founding, the debut album Dust of Aeons was released on the Indian label Transcending Obscurity Records .

The album received mixed reviews as it was released. While the album was on the one hand referred to as "a masterpiece", others judged that it did not know how to please although it should be liked because of the people involved. The criticism formulated for the Angrymetalguy webzine was particularly tied to a mixture that was dubbed “lifeless” . Mike Liassides pointed out in a review written for Doom-Metal.com that the target audience of the album was difficult to grasp. According to the review written by Sophia Kostudis for Metal.de , Dust of Aeons "urgently needs the appropriate mindset in order not to be perceived as too stagnant." Other reviews, however, praised the album without major restrictions.

style

The webzine Doom-Metal.com describes the music of Towards Atlantis Lights as an easily accessible melodic and atmospheric funeral and death doom . Towards Atlantis Lights has recognizable facets of the original groups of the musicians involved, but is at the same time extremely independent. Mike Liassides attributed the group in particular to similarity to Zara's group Void of Silences. The choice of themes, composition and restless guitar playing, which ranges from “clear and explorative melodies to brutal riffs ”. Similarly, Sophia Kostudis judged the composition as “a considerable variability [for Doom standards] [from] heavy guitar melodies [,] reduced piano accompaniment [and] almost occult vocals. The common thread is always the lead guitar, which shakes the emotional center. ”The vocals are presented clearly and as a guttural growling . According to Liassides, the further instrumentation continuously contributes to a comprehensive picture. Apart from a composition led by playing the guitar, no instrument is in the foreground and the music is presented more as a spherical and atmospheric overall structure. The editor of the webzine Metal Injection Cody Davis reviewed the album in his series Funeral Friday and praised the performance of the band members as a connection between Funeral Doom and Gothic Metal :

"They wonderfully combine the romantic death-doom of the early Peaceville era with the glacial pace of funeral doom."

"They combine the romantic Death Doom of the early Peaceville era with the Ice Age pace of Funeral Doom in a wonderful way ."

- Cody Davis for Metal Injection via Dust Of Aeons

Discography

  • 2018: Dust of Aeons (Album, Transcending Obscurity Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Towards Atlantis Lights. Doom-Metal.com, accessed March 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Mike Liassides: Towards Atlantis Lights: Dust of Aeons. doom-metal.com, accessed March 5, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Micha: Towards Atlantis Lights: Dust of Aeons. Metaller, accessed March 5, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Grymm: Towards Atlantis Lights: Dust of Aeons. angrymetalguy.com, accessed March 5, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Sophia Kostudis: Towards Atlantis Lights: Dust of Aeons. metal.de, accessed on March 5, 2020 .
  6. ↑ JONATHAN ADAMS: Towards Atlantis Lights: Dust of Aeons. heavyblogisheavy.com, accessed March 5, 2020 .
  7. ↑ nikarg: Towards Atlantis Lights: Dust of Aeons. Metalstorm.net, accessed March 5, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Cody Davis: Funeral Doom Friday: TOWARDS ATLANTIS LIGHTS Steps Forth From "The Bunker of Life". Metal Injection, accessed March 5, 2020 .