DAKRYA — The Urban Tribe (review)

DAKRYA — The Urban Tribe album cover Single · 2010 · Gothic Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
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The suburban tribe...

Genre: avant-garde gothic metal

"The Urban Tribe" was released as a single to promote Dakrya's (or Dåkryå's) forthcoming full length album "Crime Scenes". Stylistically, this track falls under the genre of blackened avant-garde gothic metal, much like Canadian metallers Unexpect. The difference is that Unexpect's music is much more technical and emphasizes musical prowess much more than Dakrya who focus more on on creating a mood of dark weirdness.

This particular track starts out with a black metal-esque riff, but then changes into a weird sort of Moulin Rouge-like piano driven verse which strikes me as being sort of humoristic (I do not know if this is intended though). The verses are separated by some more brutal sounding guitar sections that make use of dissonant chords. After the second verse, there is a section in which a quite cool semi-melodic guitar riff is repeated several times before a weird avant-garde section kicks in which makes me think of absinth-drinking clowns juggling with black roses while balancing on monocycles (don't even ask!). After a heavier version of the same section the verse kicks in again.

As of now, I think this track is okay. It is weird without being too weird, which I am sure a lot of people who are not ready for Unexpect might appreciate. But at the same time it's not weird or brutal enough for me - then again this is a single promoting their forthcoming album, and they probably do not want to scare potential new fans away (some of their other stuff is a bit more brutal and black metal inspired).

If you like the same sort of gothic atmosphere of movies like Moulin Rouge or Tim Burton films, then I think you might appreciate this music as it evokes the same kind of offbeat darkness. Fans of traditional types of metal probably will not like this asingle though.
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