Hungry Diamond – To The Gold Of Cities In The Setting Splendor Of An Unprecedented Sun (Album – Castle Of Dreams)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Dark-Ambient, Ritual.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: And here’s already a new production by Russian project Hungry Diamond. This new track is based upon a live recording.
Content: Like previous works, this album features one single cut holding you in its grip for 30 minutes. The Dark-Ambient atmosphere remains hostile while the Industrial side of the track is accentuated by metallic percussion sounds. Guitar playing accentuates the Industrial format while you’ll notice a few spoken vocals running through the song.
+ + + : I like the global icy atmosphere of the work empowered by Industrial sound treatments. The composition is progressively evolving so you never get the feeling of listening to a single cut.
– – – : I’m still missing a sonic climax, but this newest work appears to be the best one.
Conclusion: This latest work by Hungry Diamond reveals a promising evolution. It however remains a project for early Industrial/Ambient lovers.
Best songs: “To The Gold Of Cities In The Setting Splendor Of An Unprecedented Sun“.
Rate: 7.
Listen to “To The Gold Of Cities In The Setting Splendor Of An Unprecedented Sun”:
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 issued the project’s first three titles on 6 November 2021. “Songs For The King” was built on that 2018 session, “Prayer For Bread” on an earlier recording the members found among their own files, and this third title on a live recording of three rituals.
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