Dieversity
Re/Awakening

Dieversity from Germany is reawakening and brings out their second album. Last time around they claimed that last day was going to be tomorrow and that was about three years ago, I think they were wrong. That album in itself was a pretty good album but not quite amazing as it sounded more or less as the genre tends to do and they needed to do something more individual if they want to be noticed. Now a few years has passed, they are older and they have awoken again, but they didn’t quite wake the cover artist enough as last time around it was a much better looking artwork. Maybe that is an omen, but an omen for what? I guess you’ll have your answer if you continue reading this review.

Modern melodic death metal is what it is all about, and it is not just a little bit inspired by the Gothenburg style of death metal. Heavy, melodic and modern is a simple way to describe this album. Two vocal styles meet on the album, the growly and the clean vocals, it is the modern death metal way, plenty of bands to it this way and chances are that you have heard some of them and if you have it will be easy to form a decent suggestion on how this band sounds. They aren’t exactly breaking new ground with this album and to be honest it sounds more or less the same as the previous album. Well produced modern melodic death metal with a decent amount of playing time and variation enough not to bore the listener immediately. I would state that this is a sild production and performance, to say anything else would be stupid.

I think that this is a good album; it is enjoyable to listen to and has no bad tracks. Even so, I still loose interest fairly fast and find that I desire more depth, more dynamics and of course a lot more Dieversity, they need to stop painting by numbers and start pouring themselves into the songs. In terms of the production and recording it is quite impressive, it is in terms of the song writing this band is lagging behind the best in the genre. They are a little bit cowardly in their attack for a good album – speaking in sports terms I would claim that these guys are so afraid to lose that they do not dare to win.

Overall though I think that it is a good album, all the songs are of an even high quality and picking a favourite track is impossible as no track really stand out from the rest of the tracks on the album. Maybe the opening track can be said to be somewhat sharper than the rest of the album but that is with a very small margin. The first album however, did promise a lot more than this for the second album, but this hope is shattered very early on when listening to this new album. Dieversity fails to live up to their promises again as this album feels just the same as the first, a good album that is more or less a copy of their first album – only the colour of the package is different and that is not really what one could wish for.

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