This is the very first time I am hearing of Inanimate Existence. Perhaps due to the fact that I am not a big fan of music which involves djent breakdowns. The ones on their most recent release “Calling From a Dream”\u00a0however are perfectly executed and appropriately spiced over low toned and melodic lead guitars; it was not at all excessively done. And the female vocals took me by surprise because of how unique it is in comparison to other bands with female vocals in them. I found it warm and soothing even to the extent of mesmerizing with its chanty undertones. It provided an extreme contrast between the overall output especially in the sustained areas of the music; it reminded me of Anneke van Giersbergen’s vocals, actually – always a plus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On “Calling From a Dream”, the mood of a dream state and spacey ambience are highly emphasized with several unconventional instruments incorporated into the mix, giving the tracks a lot of somber\u00a0dimensions and adding a good dose of variety to the already technical piece of music. Along with that, they managed to pull very smooth transitions of slow and melodic and fast cohesively\u00a0– a\u00a0feature that should not be easily overlooked within\u00a0this album. I’d say that it is arguably a really well-balanced progressive death metal album. It is amazingly crafted with a very thick wall of sound accompanied by tasty lead guitars shredding articulately just in the right moments, the flexible drums going from blast beats to slow jazzy feel and the brutal yet not overly fancy death growls, all complimented by the very prominent sound of the bass.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Although “Calling From a Dream” was\u00a0a tad too short in my humble opinion, it managed to survey a lot of ground in conveying a number of different emotions and cool metaphysical ideas in a span of only thirty five minutes. From this, one can draw the apparent immensity of the visions these great musicians were able to systematically accomplish. Among my favorites were “Pulse of the Mountain’s” and “Calling From a Dream”. A good treat for technical death and progressive metal fans who are doubtful of djent breakdowns.<\/p>\n

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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Tracklist:<\/h4>\n01 – Calling from a Dream \n02 – The Arcane Crystal \n03 – The Shore of Rising Shadows \n04 – Pulse of the Mountain’s Heart \n05 – Upon Whirling Winds \n06 – Dreaming of the New Beginnings \n07 – Beneath the Mist \n08 – Falling into Malice \n09 – Burial at Sea<\/p>\nPlaying time:<\/strong>\u00a035:28<\/p>\nRelease date:<\/strong>\u00a016 September 2016<\/p>\nLabel:<\/strong> Unique Leader Records<\/p>\nWebsite:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheInanimateExistence\/\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">This is the very first time I am hearing of Inanimate Existence. Perhaps due to the fact that I am not a big fan of music which involves djent breakdowns. The ones on their most <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/reviews\/inanimate-existence-calling-from-a-dream\" title=\"Inanimate Existence – Calling From a Dream\">[Read \u00bb]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oct_exclude_from_cache":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1569,1568,149,306,1570],"class_list":{"0":"post-11521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reviews","8":"tag-calling-from-a-dream","9":"tag-inanimate-existence","10":"tag-metal","11":"tag-progressive","12":"tag-technical-death"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11521"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11532,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11521\/revisions\/11532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}