Dawn Heist
Catalyst

Australia’s Dawn Heist has offered us their debut album, an album called Catalyst. It spots a pretty daft cover artwork and nine tracks that make up almost forty minutes of music. The band is a quintet hailing from Sydney, Australia and is said to have managed 100’000 views to their first single during its first year on youtube. Apparently that along with the fact that they apparently make a lot of noise on the stages is something of a selling point for this album. So they will visit Europe and played with bands like The Haunted and such and such. To be honest the latter couldn’t really be less interesting.

Musically they do their own take on the groove metal genre with some synths and stuff. Nothing too new if I am honest but it doesn’t sound too typical. Not too big a variation over the tracks, it could just as well have been one song. The production is good, very solid and very strong. The album has a great sound I would say, then again, good sound isn’t everything but it sure lays a good foundation for a good album.

That is what this album has, a good foundation in the good sound but it is way too dreary and drab to really take it to any higher pastures of the metal genre. The album’s songs all sound alike and I find myself having a very difficult time focusing on the music, I actually only recall the first few seconds of the album, the rest is just a blur of sound. Nothing more. I remain unimpressed, not by the production, the sound is great and the album is just a blur of sounds where nothing really grabs me, strange that I cannot recall anything from an album I have heard well over a dozen times now. I was too uninterested to really focus even now and I found myself switching to a movie rather than carrying on listening.

As the album cannot really retain my interest, it doesn’t have any song that is well worth writing up as a favourite as I cannot remember any of them. It is a decent album that cannot really make use of its good sound. Can I recommend it then? Well, no I can’t, it is way too anonymous.

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