Hungry Diamond – Songs For The King (Album – Castle Of Dreams)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Dark-Ambient, Ritual.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: Hungry Diamond is a Russian project that joined hands together with Castle Of Dreams. This album features a single track originally written in 2018.
Content: “Songs for The King” takes you in its grip for 45 minutes. It sounds like a sonic journey guided by ghost-like vocals and carried by an impressive arsenal of noises and Industrial sound treatments.
+ + + : I like the dark atmosphere hanging over this work, but also the rather intimate mood created by the members. The song features cool Industrial elements while the ghost-like vocals bring extra mystery to the work.
– – – : This is a cool song, but which unfortunately never reached a climax.
Conclusion: This work is an honest debut for Hungry Diamond and definitely a band to keep an eye on for Industrial/Ambient lovers.
Best songs: “Songs For The King”
Rate: 6½.
Listen to “Songs For The King”:
Label: www.facebook.com/codmusicdistro
About Hungry Diamond
Hungry Diamond, credited in Russian as Голодный Алмаз, records for the Russian label Castle Of Dreams, which issues its catalogue on Bandcamp as COD label and distribution. The label describes the act as a collective from the Ural mountains and refers to it as a Permian project. Its members called their first recording, made in 2018, “quiet metal” or “black lounge”.
Castle Of Dreams put out the project’s first three titles on 6 November 2021. “Songs For The King” came first, ahead of “Prayer For Bread”, based on an earlier recording the members found among their own files, and “To The Gold Of Cities In The Setting Splendor Of An Unprecedented Sun”, taken from a live recording of three rituals.
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