(Napalm Records)  Total Time: 55:34
Release Date: October 28th 2011

Swedish doom metal coming right up guys! I read somewhere that doom metal is a subgenre, but in my book it tends to hold a genre on its own, growing, evolving and getting better and better ever since its mythical foundation during the 70’s(Black Sabbath) and up to this day.

ISOLE, formed in 2004 and well known to the specific musical playground, serve the fifth full length “dish” and to say the least I am pretty full, ears and mind by this solid work. ISOLE is the case of a traditional doom metal band… The album entitled “Born from Shadows”   manages to hold all the right balances between interesting and “been there, done that” keeping your interest high all through the hearing.Seven tracks full of slow beat melodies, melodramatic guitar sections and wonderful, evocative vocal performance, with normal time duration each, give a melancholic in a good way, mind-travelling album; perhaps one could not easily pick one of these tracks as a musical hit of the release, the nice arrangements and the fare dealing of the synthesis will make amends for sure though. A few surprises won’t be missed in here…meaning the use of brutal vocals and black metal touches here and there.

I enjoyed greatly the specific hearing… Fantastic production, the feeling of an important album and the dark melodic atmosphere kept me emotionally arisen while the cold outside my window matched perfectly the haunting tunes of ISOLE…


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Georgia Bootsali