Lista de Bandas Black Metal Happy Days Melancholic Memories

With Melancholic Memories, Happy Days has made major improvements to their sound, tweaking everything about their style to produce an emotionally powerful album. Although it might not live up to the standards set by the giants of the scene, Happy Days sure as hell do a good job in creating emotional and at times, quite depressive music.

The music of Happy Days is quite simple to describe, dual vocals presented by front man A.Morbid float over repetitious and harshly produced music. The guitars present a few interesting ideas throughout the music, creating some nice and depressing melodies throughout. Slowly and Painfully contains my favorite guitar work, opening up with an excellent doom inspired lead that is very emotional and depressive. Whilst the guitar work isn't wholly original it's certainly adequate enough for what Happy Days set out to create, it creates quite a powerful atmosphere that is highly reflective. I'm sure that the goal of Happy Days was to create music that made the listener reflect on their position in life and they have no doubt succeeded in doing so. The atmosphere is always a pivotal aspect to black metal bands of the depressive variety and Happy Days have created quite a convincing one with Melancholic Memories. It's utterly absorbing and hypnotizing, creating a bleak and desolate world that the listener won't want to break free of. Although Happy Days garners a lot of criticism gets hurled at Happy Days I think a lot of the criticism is unfairly unjust, although Happy Days may not be the most accomplished band working within the field they do create some fairly emotionally powerful music. Although the criticism leveled at the first two demos I totally agree with, they have more than just stepped up their game. Melancholic Memories is a massive improvement in all areas for Happy Days and it's well worth looking into for fans of the style.

The aspect that Happy Days has become most infamous for is their production, their first two demos were exceptionally under produced and rendered the music almost impossible to listen to. Drowning in Negativity, the bands third demo saw them stepping up the production values drastically, everything from the guitar tone to the vocals were produced in a much more clearer manner giving the music room to breathe. Melancholic Memories sees the band further increasing their production values, the guitar tone is clearer yet still containing ample amounts of fuzz. The drums have also been giving a much needed overhaul, they sound less synthetic and clearer, a nice change from the poorly produced drums of the past. The vocals also sound better, being pushed further back into the mix, allowing the instruments to take point. It also sounds like a better microphone has been used as well, eliminating a lot of the static that was present during their early days. The bass guitar is also audible, adding a heavy backdrop to the guitars, giving the music much more depth and density. Bass isn't exactly a top priority for black metal bands but I'm glad Happy Days made it quite high in the mix, it adds so much to the music that it would have been sorely missed had it not been included.

Whilst Happy Days might not have had the best reputation in the past, Melancholic Memories should turn a few heads in their direction, and show that Happy Days are a band to take seriously. Whilst I doubt they'll ever be as prolific as the likes of Hypothermia and Trist, Happy Days are heading in the right direction to make a name for themselves.