Band's List Symphonic Metal Adyta Rose of Melancholy

Norwegian sympho mosaic

The one-man band Adyta hails from Norway: young and talented musician Joakim Severinsen has composed and recorded these 5 songs with guest vocalist Melissa Ferlaak to show the world his skills and abilities. Mosaic of the “Rose of Melancholy” is pretty interesting.

It’s a nice symphonic metal recorded well enough for the first band’s EP (it was made in homestudio). Gentle female opera vocal sounds great, and maybe along with orchestral arrangements it’s the best point of the EP. Joakim like many other musicians tries to combine different elements in his music to create something unique, but he doesn’t succeed. He mixed heavy and power-speed metal with a lot of symphonic tunes, and so far it sounds good. Rich keyboard arrangements, piano passages with rhythmic heavy guitar riffs are really nice. But then we hear black metal elements with screaming and some growls, changed by folk motives. Soft and melodic sympho parts and classic music influences change aggressive and intense metal parts with speed riffs and crazy drums. Too often this music is divided into different parts with rough borders, and that is the weakest point of the EP. Joakim Severinsen didn’t manage to combine different elements into the one whole epic piece. Mosaic didn’t form a whole picture, it remains in different pieces… Even though part by part his music is pretty listenable and interesting. On the other hand, many will admit that this music is good, number of changes makes it better and even progressive.

It would be too long to describe this EP song by song. Here are the symphonic prologue, beautiful vocalises, powerful guitars, calm interludes, speed drumming and much more, seems like Joakim wants to please every taste, although he keeps it in general within the sympho metal. Who knows, maybe on the album we’ll hear even punk elements or industrial… So, let’s wait the album!