I
wanted to start my review of a new work of Adrian Hates by the words “new album
is released” but it was shot off rather than released! This year, on March 14,
the silence was broken by the shot that came from dark depths of the mysterious
and still unknown soul of the ingenious creator.
It
is more likely that if Elegies In Darkness came on the scene after such
successful disks as Nigredo, Nekrolog 43 or If, then it would not be so
fascinating. But things (or Herr Hates’ inspiration) were different. Melodies
that have been released during the last five years were rythmical, middle tempo
and nice but not so catchy as in old previous works. A compilation and acoustic
songs which were released before and after Ego-X made us get used with this
musical reality of DIARY OF DREAMS. After the announcement of a new Adrian’s
project .com/Kill and similarly-named debut album released in pursuit of it I
stopped thinking about anything new, tasty and striking… And here he crept up
and took a shot.
Elegies
In Darkness. It is brimmed with deep synthesized guitars, rich multilayer
keyboards and only-Adrian-knows orchestrations that are flooded by their own
many-sidedness. It is amazing, fresh, dark and deep. All these is the new
album. And, sure enough, it is filled with grief.