ITP V.014 REVIEW: THY LIGHT: "NO MORROW SHALL DAWN"

BAND: THY LIGHT (BRAZIL)   GENRE: DEPRESSIVE BLACK METAL (DSBM)   LABEL: PEST PRODUCTIONS   RELEASE DATE: 7/20/2013
                                                                                                                                                  

PREVIOUS RELEASES (CATALOG) : SUICIDE DEPRESSION (DEMO-2007-RUIN PRODUCTIONS)





BEST RELEASE (S): "NO MORROW SHALL DAWN" (2013)

THY LIGHT: "NO MORROW SHALL DAWN":  TRACK LISTING: 
1. "Suici.De.spair"
 2. "Wanderer Of Solitude"   
 3. "No Morrow Shall Dawn" (Featuring Tim Yatras-Austere) 
4. "Corredor Seco " 
 5."The Bridge"  

ITP RATING: ***
PRODUCTION: *** 1/2

SONGWRITING: ***

PERFORMANCE: *** 1/2


Brazilian depressive black metal warriors THY LIGHT have turned heads with the projects debut demo       ("SUICIDE DEPRESSION") featuring a diverse range of depressive black metal tones consolidated with folk and funeral doom leanings. THY LIGHT, a duo, featuring  PAOLO BRUNO and ALEX WITCH FINDER seamlessly combine the aforementioned elements into a beautiful caldron of melancholy depression, an anesthetic for depressive psychosis, while invoking a ritual of self hate.

After a six year lapse from the projects critically acclaimed demo, THY LIGHT returned last year for the projects label debut  "NO MORROW SHALL DAWN".

THY LIGHT's  "NO MORROW SHALL DAWN" opens with the track "Suici.De.spair", a melancholy instrumental piano/keyboard intro, seguing, dramatically into the second track "Wanderer Of Solitude ".

 THY LIGHT's "Wanderer Of Solitude" enters with a beautiful acoustic intro, segueing into some quality depressive blackened doom. As light keyboards flavor THY LIGHT's "Wanderer Of Solitude into a melancholy dark abyss.

THY LIGHT's "Wanderer Of Solitude" takes a dip into the melancholy with an acoustic segue into an epic, dark psychotic instrumental (5:30), as the track picks up the pace with clean vocals backed by generic blackened metal for an interesting and dark journey.

The title track of  THY LIGHT's " NO MORROW SHALL DAWN" (featuring guest TIM YATRAS of AUSTERE) enters with a slightly cheesy keyboard intro, segueing into generic depressive blackened metal, accented by melodramatic, almost operatic keyboards and occasional quality tortured howls.                         THY LIGHT's " NO MORROW SHALL DAWN" segues (7: 00 or so) into rather boring instrumentation, an echo of confusion and loneliness, dipping out of the bi polar darkness into a melodic interchange of clean and blackened screamed vocals (TIM YATRAS-clean vocals).  THY LIGHT's " NO MORROW SHALL DAWN" closes the track with a rather unassuming stringed (violin) instrumentation.

THY LIGHT's instrumental  "Corredor Seco", entices, an understated acoustic track, with Latin flavored guitars, invoking a melancholic breather in between psychotic madness.

 THY LIGHT's closes "No Morrow Shall Dawn" with "The Bridge", again regressing into a nu age intro..Until...(2:35), the band picks up with some mid paced, tortured and melodic depressive black metal.
 THY LIGHT's "The Bridge", unassuming, is rather pedestrian, perhaps intentionally with some quality melodic soling as (5:50) the track takes an epic turn, invoking quality depressive blackened tones until the decision at the "The Bridge".


THY LIGHT evoke some interesting ideas, although somewhat rehashed for depressive blackened metal. THY LIGHT's acoustic segues and arpeggios,  perhaps if used more often and consolidated within a track correctly evoke bleak and melancholic atmospheres.

However, THY LIGHT's overuse of  keyboards tips the scale into cheesy, and "nu agey".

While not perfect, THY LIGHT have potential, with more substantial songwriting, to offer a haunting alternative to generic DSMB, the talent and ambition are in the projects arsenal.
A diamond in the rough,  THY LIGHT's ambition of consolidating the rather pretentious with the depressive may not be everyones cup of tea, I say go manic-choly and drop the over dramatic.    


ITP RATING: ***
PRODUCTION: *** 1/2

SONGWRITING: ***

PERFORMANCE: *** 1/2

Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-