Deities Dethroned
Sundowner

Bandcamp had but one statement to make about the album: This is where SHINING meets ANTIMATTER, and this is where Shoegaze meets Prog. The very last metal album by SUNDOWNER. Hailing from Belarus, this is a one-man band. The album has eight songs. "Bleak, Blurred & Grey" is first, and it's an instrumental. Somber tones bleed from the song and they are very sad. Consisting mostly of guitars, at times they create a towering burden while others are just bleaker. In either case, it's all about the atmosphere Nekkro builds. "When You Speak, You Don't Hear a Word" features raging vocal screams over a bed of guitars that maintains some hope in this world. That hope however hangs on a precipice in a dangerously precarious position. If you listen closely, you can hear the calm seas amidst the churning.
"The Sound of Satan" is an acoustic guitar driven song, and although the charge of heavy emotions from the previous song has lessened, you still feel a lot when you listen to it. It has a simple, pleasing rhythm, and is very pretty, in a sad sort of way. "Survivor's Guilt" roars forward with the study, aggressive backbone of Black/Death Metal, and that main riff is crushing. Look around…there's no hope to be found here. "Echoes of Remorse" accurately reflects that feeling of numbness that settles in after doing something you regret, and it gets worse with the gravity of what you may have done. "Theory of a Question Mark" brings the tempestuous storm back into being. Dark and angry at times, it's the moments of levity that I enjoy most, and they keep the storm from obliterating everything. Indeed, this yin and yang approach is what gives the album balance.
"Macro" is a lengthy instrumental, opening with a spirited pace. It seems to occupy that dreary, grey, rain-riddled place between the darkness of Hell and the brightness of Heaven…the kind of place where each coming day is the same as the last. "I'm Going Home" is the final track, and it has ominous, declarative tones. Sometimes, you get feelings of regret from the album, while other times, a numbing sadness that can't be shaken. Of course, there are also angry tones, and they blend in with the bleakness of the album very well. No matter what you feel, the point of the album is that you do, and you feel it deeply.
8 / 10
Excellent
Songwriting
Musicianship
Memorability
Production
"Deities Dethroned" Track-listing:
1. Bleak, Blurred & Grey
2. When You Speak, You Don't Hear a Word
3. The Sound of Satan
4. Survivor's Guilt
5. Echoes of Remorse
6. Theory of a Question Mark
7. Macro
8. I'm Going Home
Sundowner Lineup:
Nekkro – Everything
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