Dawn of the New Athens

Aesma Daeva | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 8, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: CDBY
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• ASIN: B000P37NDE
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #235,783 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Dawn of a New Athens is the long awaited album for all fans of symphonic metal. After 4 years Aesma Daeva has compiled its strongest lineup. With Grammy award winning Producer Neil Kernon (Hall and Oats, Queensryche). This album comes with major label production and underground originality. The album opens with the doom metal epic Tisza's Child. A wonderful song featuring the choral voices and members of (Rose Ensemble and Vocal Essence) combined with the lead vocals of Lori Lewis (Therion's touring vocalist 2007) This is one of the most emotion and colorful symphonic metal albums released. Guitars are handled by Earl Root Minneapolis's own "Root of all evil" ,(ex disturbed God Awful) Bass guitar covered by Chris Quinn (DODD, A Whisper in the Noise) Other Highlights include D'Oreste D'Adjace from Mozart's recently censored opera Idomenio. It is a very original and well thought out arrangement with rock and roll tempo changes and groove, but never loosing the vocalist's money runs that we are all waiting to hear. Easily matched in intensity is "Since the Machine" a dystopian epic of massive chords and massive proportions based on George Orwel's 1984.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the discovery of unknown music lands, December 16, 2009

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Dionysios Pentaris (Greece) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dawn of the New Athens (Audio CD)

"Well, general speaking Aesma Daeva is one of the pioneers in the Metal Genre and this statement is not an exaggeration. The most important thing now-days is the innovation of the music production in respect of ideas, feelings and of composition, too. The overall topic of Symphonic Metal accompanied by female vocals experienced a saturation the last 5-6 years. The key point, for the specific scene, is synonymous with the combination of different styles always in a Metal way. In Aesma Daeve someone can find catchy and unique melodies, ethnic influences and many colorful feelings. The "Dawn of the New Athens" contains deep thinking lyrics and a light philosophical atmosphere which is very important for the modern Metal listener. Beyond the "head-banging fashion", there is a land of emotional music which has as a consequence the discovery of unknown music lands. The journey to this land is still on the run!"

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is pretty much incredible, December 24, 2007

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Patrick Christians "Wintermute" (St. Paul, MN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dawn of the New Athens (Audio CD)

The title pretty much says it all. Seriously, this may be my favorite Aesma Daeva album to date. Lori Lewis is a fantastic singer and the music is as good as it always is. Seriously, worth every penny.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Unique Sound, April 2, 2011

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Kerry Day - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dawn of the New Athens (MP3 Download)

Lori Lewis has an incredible voice and the whole 2 CD's are focused on her voice. Although this might be classified as Metal, the tempo is much slower than expected, with many pauses that use silence as a note to accentuate the notes that follow. There are many Slow parts followed by load parts. There are some good metal moments and some very unique sound effects. I am not sure, but I think they even used some ionian scale structures here (4 note scales instead of 5, 7 or 12). At first listen nothing on this CD stands out. But I make it a rule to listen to each CD I buy at least 5 times before I evaluate the CD. I have discovered that this CD is full of sleepers (Songs which grow on you). I got this CD because Lori did some singing with Therion. But this CD has little in common with Therion. If you give these CD's a chance you will be haunted by her vocals, which will follow you around even when you are not listening - which is a characteristic of all great music. There are several versions of the song "Loon", the best is the swamp mix which has many unussual sound effects & I give all versions 5 stars. A also give Tisza's Child, The Blue Shade & Artemis five stars. The primary CD has 9 songs, The first 3 are good or great, then the songs are so-so until the 9th song - which is why I gave 4 star for the CD. The second CD has only 4 song (2 loons), but every song on this CD is good. I recommend this CD to those who are patient when listing to music. If you want hard driving guitar rifts and catchy lyrics that grab your attention right away (which I like too), but do not have the patients replay CD's that you dont like at first, then avoid these CD's; But if you have patients, you will end up liking these CD's very much.