Last year «Larceny» from southern Germany are celebrating their tenth anniversary, but for a variety of reasons, including a change in line-up, only two albums have been released so far. Now the ring is clear for round three. Exactly two years after the album «My Fall»Larceny» propose a successor. Since that caused the front woman Anna Rantou to leave the band, the sound is no longer so reminiscent of «Lacuna Coil» and Cristina Scabbia, it is more Melodic Death Metal and the level has also increased significantly in terms of heaviness. It would also be wrong to limit "Into Darkness" to melodic death metal, because the five musicians keep trying other subgenres and present their songs with extremely high contrasts. There are forays into thrash as well as the deliberate omission of the «melodic» prefix when it comes to death. This time there is one in the twelve from the Baden-Württembergers.
The presentation of the album as well as the first two tracks suggest that «Larceny» want to deliver a really dark work with «Into Darkness». For the third album, however, four songs from the previous albums were re-recorded, and these songs alone clearly show the further development that «Larceny» has meanwhile passed through. Even the intro, played only with a keyboard, sounds like the start of a march into darkness. There's direct and heavy Thrash/Metal riffing on «Detour To Hell» and the Black Metal influences can be heard on «Afterlife». Most of the Melodic Death Metal bands I know work with growls and maybe also clean voice, but Oliver Gaupp hits us more with screams and shouts here, which works really well. With the following title track «Into Darkness», Conny Ott can also prove with a nice solo that a keyboard fits very well with this direction.
Once you've gotten this far, the anthem "No Surrender" lures you into the living room moshpit. Then the tempo is slowed down a bit in "Limbus" and you get to hear a German-language song for once. «Hold The Last Light» is then kept at high speed again, with very quiet parts interspersed again and again, in which you can take a breath and set your neck vertebrae again. Unfortunately, I don't quite understand why the melody is only continued by the guitars in the last minute. «I Will Rise» comes from the first album «Larceny», here you can hear Melodic Death Metal with a good pinch of Thrash Metal again (or again). I find «Gunpowder Night» very well done, which, like the last two songs, comes from the album «My Fall». Beginning relatively cautiously with the piano, the drums give this track a really galloping rhythm. "My Fall" then poaches again at high speed and "End Of Lies" could almost be compared to "Hold The Last Light". Here, too, fine Black Metal shredding with calm parts.
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Larceny - Into Darkness [Melodic Death Metal]
In general, "Into Darkness" looks pleasantly modern and cleanly produced. The band does a good job on this album and the Baden-Württembergers dare to take a new musical direction. The very harsh vocal fraction and the melodic sound is really catchy and partly because of the many dark sound fragments it gets under your skin. Here and there the singer flashes like a lurking beast and there's just something about it. All in all, the gentlemen show us a mixture, which is simply good to listen to and doesn't just swim carelessly in the ferry waters of Melodic Death Metal. Many of their own innovations were put into the race and the extent of the melange was really successful. Since their 2010 debut, the combo has really ramped up and they've managed to stay true to their roots, despite having to shift quite a bit. Thus «Into Darkness» is not only more mature, no, the completed addition of harder parts suits the band very well. I find the addition of smaller, epic sound arrangements particularly nice as a melodic accompaniment. As is well known, one can argue about the abundance of Melodic Death Metal, but «Larceny» are able to get involved very well and offer many fresh, convincing arguments and don't sound like the umpteenth clone of any big band. worth hearing!
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Tracklist:
- Intro
- Detour To Hell
- Afterlife
- Into darkness
- No Surrender
- Limbus
- Hold The Last Light
- I will rise
- Gunpowder Night
- My case
- End of lies
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