Dyecrest - Once I Had A Heart (CD)

Release Date: 10/20/23

For fans of Heat, Eclipse, Battle Beast

The band is coming back after five years of hiatus (Are You Not Entertained? / 2018) and the band is alive and kicking. On vocals Mikka Salo (Metal De Facto, ex-Everfrost). The album has nine tracks, it contains a variable set of melodic metal and the single 'Colder' is their manifesto. You can truly hear that this time it is for real, and the album is filled with killer tracks! The album in whole is a tighter package than any previous Dyecrest album, and it lifts the band to a whole new level, for sure! This is the Dyecrest's tightest album and it is a killer package. Versatile songs but still an intense and compact entirety, the album is a very good mix of traditional melodic metal and more modern stuff.

On the album, there are some old songs (for example 'Read My Mind' and 'Man Made God') as well as brand new songs, such as the title track 'Once I Had a Heart', the crushing opener 'Sacred Sleep', the bouncing and heavy 'Oathkeeper' and the majestic and powerful half-ballad 'Fire From Your World', which also ends the album with it's heartbreaking atmosphere.