FROZEN MOONLIGHT – Dat Victoria Vires (EP)

And Stewart was bewildered. He was in a completely unfamiliar situation. Actually he was in the most unfamiliar to him situation.
He didn’t know what to say.
This writes Asimov in his short story ‘C – Chute’. This is what I feel while listening to Frozen Moonlight.

The young (really, really young) band is a very occasional and very happy discovery of mine – i.e. instead of studying, I was digging through some random channels of the musical side of the internet. Imagine my joy when I first gave a listen to the song Dat Victoria Vires! Imagine my joy when I gave it a twentieth listen! And a hunderdth! This tune provoked me to dig even deeper and contact the band.

Mladja Nikolic, vocals and synths, Igor Korom, bass, Bane Andrej Zivkovic, guitars, Predrag Andrejevic, rhythm guitars and Boris Zdero, drums, represent themselves in the net as novi-sad melodeath metals. How can you not get hooked – they’re both a close tribe AND a favourite genre!

Month after I heard the EP Dat Victoria Vires, I am still under its powerful spell of the amalgam between music, desire and skill. In each one of the three songs are explored different abilities of the band – in the first that gave its name to the record, we find a rarely catchy melody that if once heard can never go out of the mind. No wonder it was chosen for an instrumental version.
Shadow Within the Fog backs on a faster pace and darkly delicate choir parties alongside female vocals – a combnation that gives shivers. The contrast between harsh voice performances, heavy guitars and simple, flittering ladies’ tones is very well known and has nothing new to offer, but in this occasion it is an interesting phenomenon. I can only hope we will rediscover this beautiful knack in the next FM album!
Beyond the Last Star throws me back in the better times of Children of Bodom but with slightly softer sound. With it the odyssey Dat Victoria Vires ends.

I’ve given before my very self a promise – ‘I won’t ever waste my time on shitty albums’ and it results in the current disposition – I don’t do reviews on something which I will assess with less than seven. As I already said to the boys, I don’t know how they managed to top my favourite 2014 albums with just three songs and two instrumentals.

10/10