IN AUTUMN - "What's Done Is Done [My Kingdon Music]

Third chapter of a career that is heading towards twenty years of existence, for a band that, even if it is very prolific on record, always shows that it takes great care of its albums, of what it plays and of what it wants to convey to the listener. “What’s Done Is Done” is a concentration of melancholy and desolation, just as the band’s monicker suggests, taking the music of their new album into decidedly autumnal territories, when everything dies and then is reborn.

And rebirth is also one of the feelings that you can experience from listening to this album, through various nuances of the album, which often settles on medium-slow tempos and suffused guitar arpeggios, but which explodes into something more angry with hints of post metal and alternative metal and with a voice that knows how to modulate between clean and growl. The sound production is optimal, the drums sound full and the band knows how to dose each element perfectly.

Perhaps the album in the long run could be a bit monolithic and perhaps not too original, as it doesn’t differ much from what bands like Katatonia, Paradise Lost and Anathema offered us especially in the nineties, but this type of album is perhaps aimed at a specific audience of listeners, and if you appreciate these bands, doom, gothic metal and some more modern hints you could seriously love this album. A third album that is therefore convincing, for an Italian band that promises very well.