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| Metalsucks |
 ConsChris Black's vocals aren't for everyone; an acquired taste. Description Released September 21, 2010 on Profound Lore Records. This is Dawnbringer’s fourth album. Frontman Chris Black also spends time in Superchrist and High Spirits, while also contributing lyrics to Nachtmystium. Guide Review - Dawnbringer - 'Nucleus' After a four year absence from their last LP, Chicago’s Dawnbringer have returned with Nucleus, which just might the album of their career. Nucleus musically embodies everything Dawnbringer has consistently teased us with over the course of their fifteen year existence, scraping away every ounce of filler and trimming away all of the fat to create a lean, mean metal machine. Whereas the songs on In Sickness and In Dreams never quite stuck around long enough to make their presence known or their impact felt, the Nucleus listening experience possesses just about the perfect album-length flow, and practically begs for repeated spins. The band’s style is both nebulous and traditional; an amalgamation of everything classically awesome about heavy metal—from Bay Area thrash to Maiden, Motorhead and the NWOBHM—with a whip-smart assurance to boot. Much of this confidence exudes from bassist/vocalist Chris Black—also the frontman for the mighty Superchrist and High Spirits—whose intelligent lyrics and Lemmy styled swagger serves the band’s working class brand of metal perfectly. Though 2000’s Catharsis Instinct displayed tons of promise and In Sickness and In Dreams brought the band one step closer to greatness, it’s Nucleus which drives Dawnbringer the rest of the way home in style: this is absolutely essential metal...make sure you don’t sleep on this one!...full text |
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| I suppose the single positive thing about being a dirty polecat and dragging my feet in regards to getting this review out in a timely manner is that it's given me an opportunity to cull some early feedback before putting pen to paper. And really, I think I've seen and heard the gamut of like, love and hate extensively hollered across our land concerning Nucleus. My conclusion is this: those of you who dislike what you hear on this album should probably be shipped off to an island and starved viciously before being napalmed and tilled into the Earth. Probably. Of course I'm kidding. We can still be friends despite a difference in heavy metal opinion; I'm no Joey DeMaio. But I do find it amazing how polarizing a release such as this can be. I suppose I can understand the intolerance if you consider yourself more of a "modern" metallist with a focus purely on progression. If that's the case, Nucleus is likely to sound like yet another clunker your uncle might crank in the garage while stealing puffs off a stowed Marlboro outside the range of the misses and brood. But honestly, this album, and Dawnbringer in general, isn't intended to cast a terribly wide net. This is music best suited for those latter-day devotees who still merrily trot out the Ostrogoth's, Griffin's and Sortilége's of the past -- all of which lend Dawnbringer a piece of their heritage. Barring complaints from casual passers-by squawking "old-guy metal, old-guy metal," Nucleus actually shows quite a bit of variance beneath the deceptively elementary initial layer. One can indeed hear bits and pieces from a wide variety of the imprints that head-honcho Chris Black has his hands in. The vintage charge is obviously intensified from time spent drumming for modern traditionalists Pharaoh, who also lend guitarist Matt Johnsen's lead-work to multiple break-outs on Nucleus. But outside this NWOBHM-inspired realm, we also hear straight-up ballsy hard rock via Black's Superchrist outfit painting a few of the edges, along with a fondness for outright aggression (3:40 into "The Devil") or even jangling with a bit of modern Nachtmystium flare, like the onset of "Like an Earthquake"....full text |
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