Grey Skies Fallen ‎"The Many Sides Of Truth" CD

Grey Skies Fallen are a New York based band that specialize in dark, moody melodic metal. They have been active since 1997. Their two prior albums, The Fate of Angels in 1999 and Tomorrow’s in Doubt in 2002 were amazing. Before I played their brand new release I wanted to hear what made these albums so great. In the late 1990’s atmospheric doom/death metal acts were gaining mainstream acceptance. Bands such as November’s Doom, Amorphis, My Dying Bride and Katatonia were all becoming major acts to contend with. When Grey Skies Fallen released their debut, the band were capturing the original ideas of the doom/death metal genre. Eerie keyboards, sorrowful vocals and atmospheric melodies made their release a top notch recording. Their second release was similar, with the band executing another fine release. Their third album I never owned or heard. This leads me to their newest creation, The Many Sides of Truth.
My first time around listening to The Many Sides of Truth I wasn’t impressed. The songs Ritual of the Exiter and Unroot Transparent Being were drawn out, redundant songs that sounded uninspired. The second time I spun the album tracks one and two still sounded mundane but the song The Flame gave me some optimism to venture further into this album.
Craig Rossi’s keyboard work on The Flame is very affective in grabbing the listener and providing a dense, bleak atmosphere that works very well. While the keyboards are effective, they aren’t overpowering the other instruments. The song Of the Ancients comes off sounding like Candlemass with Robert Lowe at the helm. Lots of slow doomy riffs, great vocals courtesy of Rick Habeeb and epic songwriting. Halfway through the song the vocals become much more sinister sounding and go towards a death metal sound. The band flips between clean and guttural vocals throughout the album. The track End of My Rope reminded me of early My Dying Bride. Sorrowful melodies, strong clean vocals, with a heavy dose of atmosphere.
The production I wasn’t too pleased with. Something about the sound was flat and had no color. As for the songs, three tracks were amazing and the other four were fillers. I was expecting more from this band.

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