Before The Rain - "... One Day Less"

[Serenity]

"...Breath-taking and shattering at the same time"

9/10

www.taakefrost.de/rbeforetherain_day.htm



"Em pouco mais de uma hora os Before The Rain debitam seis faixas soturnas, em ritmo lento, impregnadas com sentimentos de perda e sofrimento..."

corpushermeticum.blogspot.com

[Serenity]

"Before the Rain burrows their way through thick desolate landscapes of doom that sets the bar very, very high for future Major Label Industries contributions..."

in Digital Metal

[Serenity]

"One Day Less" votado um dos melhores álbuns do ano pela equipa do Blitz

[Onesolo]

Eish, esses gajos ainda ouvem albuns de metal... valentes...

[Serenity]

"One Day Less é mais um sublime exercício de música melancólica, riffs arrastados e monolíticos, e de melodias dilacerantes..."
in SounD(/)ZonE

[X-FrEaK]

Bem, eu comecei a ouvir agora o album e até agora posso dizer que estou a gostar, mas se calhar não me impressionou sobremaneira porque já vem depois de ter ouvido o Renounce de Process of Guilt, que considero um dos melhores albuns de Death/Doom que já ouvi! Este projecto é BEM mais melancólico que PoG, por ex na música que estou a ouvir neste momento, One Day Less, há uma secção em que eu me pergunto se nao convidaram o Jonas Renkse(Katatonia) pa cantar um bocado, porque alem da voz limpa ser muito parecida(acho que isto deve ser tomado como um sério elogio, pois o Jonas é uma referência para mim). Penso que as composições de BtR são mais simplistas comparando com PoG, mas conseguem de igual forma criar "aquela" atmosfera habitual de um album de Doom. Não vou dar pontuação ao album para já pois tenho que o ouvir mais vezes, mas parabéns!

[Serenity]

"... One Day Less un trabajo que hiere, derriba, abraza y recompone; siendo su escucha perfecta y necesaria para momentos de depresión del ánimo"
in muzike.org

[Serenity]

"...a profunda matriz de um Doom Metal da primeira metade da década de 90 é inconfundível"
in Underworld

[Serenity]

"este “…One day less” hace que Before the Rain sean una de las mejores y mayores sorpresas del 2007"

9/10

in Black Dawn

[Vinho Tinto]

Bom disco de Doom Death com toques a Post Doom. Nada de fantástico a nível internacional, mas por cá poucos lhes fazem frente. 7/10

[Serenity]

"...in a genre in which it's hard to innovate, it's the work of riffmeisters Valter Cunha and Hugo Santos in particular that lifts '...One Day Less' above the usual norm"

in too.many.records

[Serenity]

"…One Day Less é um álbum magnífico; lúgubre, feito de subtilezas electroacústicas..."

in A Trompa

[Serenity]

"The moment I got this CD I have been spinning it a lot as it definitely brings me back to the feeling I got back in the early 90’s..."

4/5

in Quintessence

[Serenity]

"One Less Day crawls with bleak and oppressive beauty"
in Teeth of the Divine

[wasted years]

BEFORE THE RAIN - ...One Day Less
Major Label Industries

Melodic Funeral Doom

6 songs (1:06:17)
Release year: 2007
Before The Rain, Major Label Industries


You can generally divide Doom bands into one of two categories: the ones that rip off Black Sabbath and the ones that rip off My Dying Bride - les rockers and les miserables. Before The Rain, a new project formed from members of other Portuguese bands such as Sculpture and Lethian Dreams, fits firmly and snugly into the latter slot – you won’t find any Cathedralesque riff-frenzies here. What you do get is some quality Doom Death that is compelling enough to warrant your attention over the course of some quite lengthy tracks – with two over fifteen minutes.

Before The Rain doesn’t go all-out on the crushing sorrow, for the most part retaining a sense of melody that verges on the Prog but never quite touches it. Gentle strumming, clean vocals, that atmospheric Katatonian sound… it’s all present and correct yet despite avoiding originality like the plague, the end result as presented on debut album …One Day Less is curiously palatable. There are little to no keyboards, the music being driven by the guitars and (to a much lesser extent) the vocals, and whilst a bit more technicality in the rhythm section would make the listen even better, it’s perfectly adequate.

The album opens with Wounds Of Rejection, a twelve-minute paean to loneliness that hits all the right epic notes and has a clear rise-and-fall quality to it. Although starting with growls, it soon passes to clean vocals, and the melodies take over completely, later growls only enhancing the experience. There’s a fairly even balance throughout the album between harsh and clean vocals, aside from the all-clean Paragraph, which makes use of those hammy spoken verses that are annoying from the first listen to the last – fortunately, it’s only a three-minute interlude.

You… My Ruin takes a slightly more desperate route in the vocals, the insistent riffing soon giving way to slow drones and growls before returning again for maximum Doomage. Be Mine opens with uncanny Industrial effects before exploding forth into epic Doom, certain to leave newcomers nonplussed and veterans in ecstasy. You could say as much for the album overall – not recommended for beginners unless they’re of an adventurous bent, but those more experienced may well love it, as there’s just enough to keep you listening. A good debut; let’s hope the band can build on it and make an even better follow-up.


Killing Songs : Wounds Of Rejection, You... My Ruin, Be Mine, One Day Less

75 / 100

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