DAWNBREAKER - Vanquished Horrible Night - unBlack / Death Metal from NY

I agree. The album is absolutely fantastic! One of the best CBM albums I've heard over the past few years. I thought the sound of the first two was great but the songwriting I wasn't thrilled about. They ended up blending together for me and because of that they didn't get the listens to pull out the details. This, every track has something to draw me back to it. I was and am very surprised by this. I love how forward the lyrics are as well and that they are discernible.

Frozen Fire wrote:I thought the sound of the first two was great but the songwriting I wasn't thrilled about. They ended up blending together for me and because of that they didn't get the listens to pull out the details. This, every track has something to draw me back to it. I was and am very surprised by this. I love how forward the lyrics are as well and that they are discernible.

Exactly!   The 1st two albums established the fact that they had a brutal sound, but there was almost no melody to speak of and the songs seemed too long and monotonous.   This is a totally different approach and I think it works well for them....well, him (it's really a one man band).

I'm surprised this hasn't gotten more attention.   This is a seriously faith-based band with an excellent new album.  
The music is brutal and well-constructed and the lyrics are very intelligent.  Well worth a few minutes to give a song or two a listen.   It may very well end up on my Top 10 for the year.

The album sounds great. Haven't bought it yet though. I haven't read through all the lyrics, but I will say that "Lady of the Snows" has some lyrics that concern me a little bit. It's about Mary, and he even cites 2 Maccabees. It's about Mary leading people to Christ, which is weird, because the work of salvation is accomplished entirely by God Himself, and His Word is the primary means used for this. "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." (Rom 10:17)

CrimsonWarrior wrote:The album sounds great. Haven't bought it yet though. I haven't read through all the lyrics, but I will say that "Lady of the Snows" has some lyrics that concern me a little bit. It's about Mary, and he even cites 2 Maccabees. It's about Mary leading people to Christ, which is weird, because the work of salvation is accomplished entirely by God Himself, and His Word is the primary means used for this. "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." (Rom 10:17)

I completely understand that.

Bridge Between Worlds is about Christ's presence in the Eucharist. He tends to speak highly of how much he identifies with various pro-Catholic doctrinal stances. Since I'm not entirely sure where it all comes from I have left it as a benefit of the doubt kind of thing. You can read Cullen's commentary on every track on the band's Facebook page if you get more curious.

Oh interesting, I didn't realize he did commentary. I'll probably take a look at that. Thanks.