When Big Daddy" here is hearing new Doom Death Metal bands, it's a striking feature that such bitter and non commercial Metal style is still giving birth to bands. In our time, when the most aggressive and fast Metal styles are all gaining more attention, this fact is really something that astonishes us all. But another thing that calls our attention is that the bands are focusing in a somber mix between slow tempos with guttural voices, running away from more clean voices and polished sounds. Sometimes, seems to me that the trend of a more clean and introspective music that happened in the second half of the 90s never existed!

But besides this all, it's an excellent experience to hear and know new bands like CRIMSON SWAN, a Doom Death Metal quintet that comes from Germany, with "Unlit", their first album.

They have that introspective and depressive feeling, with an elegant musical embodiment, but with a brutal grasp in some moments, where the slow paced tempos and sad melodies turn it all into songs full of the same atmosphere when we walk on thin rain on a gray and cold day. Guttural vocals almost all the time, but with some clean ones appearing here and there (and even some female vocals); brutal and depressive riffs (with some melodies that can reminds us works from Adrian Smith and Dave Murray sometimes), very good keyboards to give a extra depressive feeling, and a very good and heavy rhythmic basis created by bass and drums, so, be prepared for an elegant and somber musical voyage.

The sound quality is very good. To a Doom Death Metal band, the most important is to heavy weight and musical clarity, and here is what we find on the album. Of course some tunes on the instruments could be better, but the production as whole is very good, including the album cover.

Musically, even using very songs, the musical side is enriched by changes in tempos and on riffs, so we can point as the best songs of the album the melodic and introspective "A Waterfall of Sorrow" (very good and tender guitars, even when they play clean accords, and there are some whispered voices in some moments), the elegant and depressive "Words of Perdition" (very good keyboards and vocals, using guttural tunes, shrieked screams and clean voices in the middle of catching and charming riffs) and the deeper and well worked "Accusations" (again the use of clean vocals with female voices is used with wisdom here). But the album is very good as a whole.

If this is their first album, I just can't wait for their next work!<