{"id":94187,"date":"2022-06-24T00:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T23:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=94187"},"modified":"2022-07-04T17:53:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T16:53:05","slug":"album-review-diamond-dust-ten-years-in-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-diamond-dust-ten-years-in-dust\/","title":{"rendered":"DIAMOND DUST – Ten Years In Dust (2022) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

DIAMOND DUST
Ten Years In Dust<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSelf-released (2022)<\/span>
Rating: 4\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Diamond Dust is a Croatian act that has apparently been in existence since 2007, although they are a new name on my radar. To be honest, I haven\u2019t missed much\u2026 Ten Years In Dust<\/em> has that generic thrash metal sound with tinny drums, standard axe work and muscular vocal shouts that lack personality.<\/p>\n

The grandiose moments, as showcased in opening track \u2018Martyr\u2019, typify everything I despise about modern metal; cold, clinical patterns and a chorus bordering on mid-90s groove-cum-nu metal dreariness.<\/p>\n

I certainly won\u2019t knock Diamond Rust for trying as they are clearly five accomplished musicians who\u2019ve been around the block, but there\u2019s just no identity to this overlong offering that spans 55 minutes.<\/p>\n

\u2018Eastern Sin\u2019, just like the rest, lacks weight and feels too clinical. Vocally there\u2019s a struggle going on, and it\u2019s often tuneless and this is just on repeat throughout. But if I had to dredge the lake to look for favourite songs then maybe the racing \u2018Other Side\u2019, maybe \u2018Final Walk\u2019 with its catchy chugs, or maybe \u2018Echoes Of My Name\u2019 which offers a Metallica-styled assault and finally brings out the best in the percussionist. However, wherever I go with this I just feel empty and unfulfilled.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, the title track provides some solid tempo shifts, \u2018Death In Our Sight\u2019 again flirts with Metallica and Megadeth<\/a> stylings of catchiness, and \u2018Castaway Shadow\u2019 follows suite with similar structures. And that\u2019s the problem, it\u2019s just regurgitative modern thrash metal lacking conviction; it\u2019s not organic enough, it\u2019s not fiery, merely tepid from top to bottom and by the halfway stage I\u2019m bored of it.<\/p>\n

Diamond Rust have left it too long to go back to the drawing board and seem stuck in a rut whereby they\u2019ve resorted to pale thrash metal dynamics.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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