Origin : Japan
Genre : Symphonic Power Metal
Release : 2017 (EP)
Album downloads only available to members
Album Info / Review
**Album Review: *Unlucky Morpheus* – Black Pentagram**
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### 1. First Glimpse: The Cover and Intro
The cover art of *Unlucky Morpheus* feels like a midnight ritual: a cloaked figure in spectral italics, clutching a blade that glows with a bruised crimson. A quick skim through the tracklist, and you’re already chasing the forbidden. Black Pentagram sets the tone – no lyrical disclaimer, no gated euphoria. It’s a straight‑up metallic assault that starts with a warped, echoing trumpet sound that’s almost like a phone call from the underworld. Right there, the band signals that this is a place where riffs are sharper than a dagger.
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### 2. Soundscape: The Overall Atmosphere
From the moment the first chord lands, it’s clear that the band has gone a step beyond the usual “doom‑metal‑draft”: the atmosphere feels haunted, yet still fatalistic. Black Pentagram uses the entire low end as a breathing organ – the death‑grind of the double bass and the low, subsonic tremolo bassline give the music a living pulse that seems to hum at the edge of your skull.
They juxtapose that heaviness with occasional gleams of high‑octave squeals. These shimmering passes cut through the murk like broken shards of dragon glass. The vocal delivery is aggressive, wailing through a flood of distortion, but the vocalist even manages to carve word boundaries when the song slows down for a sigh. The result: an album that feels like a dark corridor with occasional gaslights flickering in the gloom.
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### 3. Riffs & Melody
**Track 1 – “Ritual Vortex”**
The opening riff is a classic blues‑based waltz with a sinister undercurrent. You can hear a three‑note hook that looks familiar yet feels fresh because of the way it’s layered with a reverse‑skipping cymbal every two bars. The groove has a tightness that keeps your foot stuck in place without any melodic distractions.
**Track 3 – “Shade of Mercy”**
Up to three guitar tracks clash here. The first is a flanged mid‑range riff that ascends almost like a broken angelic chord. The second leans into a low‑end pitch section that feels like the conveyance of a funeral march. The third is edited to run in complete syncopation, creating a disorienting echo. It would be easy for a riff‑centric listener to get lost in the placebo, but the guitars never waver; they basically talk back to each other.
**Track 6 – “Blood Dream”**
Here the band adopts a more straightforward thrash mentality: “faster, loud, and no melody?” The double‑pickup riff runs a full 100% of the track, letting the guitars roar like an alchemy of violent nucleotide chains. The garage‑blast attack on the intro holds the proves that Black Pentagram will not shy away from old‑school aggression.
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### 4. Production: The Process Allured Sound
Production-wise, the album sits firmly in the “white‑noise coexistence” zone but yet retains clarity. Each instrument gets its own space. The drums benefit from a saturated, parallel‑compressed kick and a punchy snare that’s reverb-limited to keep the soundhuman.
– *Bass*: The low end is not buried. The lead bass of *Cinnamon Held* has a distinct hiss through the synth-effect chamber. But the low frequencies are varied; no swirl‑seeding M/S that would swamp the mix.
– *Vocals*: Clean enough for the listener to catch emotion but still squeezed on the runs. The harmonizers used give a thin sense of space making each note feel like a ghost floating above the body of the music.
– *Guitar*: The guitars sit on the high end; however, they avoid the typical crack of 12‑string gear by blending aux guitars.
The overall mix is thicker than a weed‑laden forest though. This is a deliberate decision that masks certain details, especially extra riffs, but the finale of the tracks appear like colossal drums in a 4‑op–elastic landscape.
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### 5. Lyricism & Themes
From a thematic grounding they tread a path through mystical, secondhand ideas. The “unlucky” in the album title is a betrayal that’s present throughout the lyrics, as well as in all of the repeated personal, introspection and star‑reassembled identity crises. Each lyric describes a haunting as well as an affiliation to the dissonant line.
**Track 9 – “After the Harrow”**
The last track’s lyrics poison the whole thing. A passive‑aggressive revelation about misunderstanding and donning confusions. The intellectual barriers built of a-forced reflective text.
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### 6. Overall Impression
Unlucky Morpheus is a dark but coherent reading. Even with some songs that may contain an undercurrent of repetitive motifs or that rely heavily on a certain “garage‑blast” line, the pictures show a sense of destiny that cannot be captured with an intangible sense. People will enjoy the thrash and the glitchy instruments if they enjoy grains of truth. If the moment feels overloaded or lighter, the viewer may prefer to move the conversation alongside the band’s psychological nuances.
They finish the project on a massive three‑minute track that subjects enough sleepers on the cusp of a new era’s legacy – a perfect vessel on records designed not to linger inside a single voice but became an audio hit.
All in all, there can still be room for to tool Outer shells: many reviewers appreciated the original sample. After an emotional shot on the harmonizer, one may feel empowered. Each love grows with this ritual. Takeaway: black‑pentagoured Hades verges ‘reinvigorate’ any current fans of heavier thrash terrain. The assurance that various distributions are considered ideal if the band gets enough vɪcent held.
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