A good melodic death metal attempt by this Mexican band; way back in 1997 the mellow death movement was not new but it was definitely giving its first steeps, bands like At the Gates, Dark Tranquillity and In Flames were developing the sound and this Mexicans show us what we were trying to do over here in Latin America.

This album is not complex at all, melodic guitars playing side by side, some growls and some fast drums in the background make this a very simplistic going “by a formula” kind of melodic metal.

Like any respected melodic band Buried Dreams tries to place a couple of heavy metal riffs here and there, while the growls seem a bit forced in some passages and the drums just don’t do anything more than help the guitars change the tempo.

When I first heard this album, the first song and particularly its intro made me hope for a good and interesting album but as the song begins to develop, my hopes started to fade away; the guitars are quite catchy and have a couple of interesting riffs, but the production and the mix are terrible, so even if these guys had tried to write better songs they still had to face the whole studio topic; its so important (at least for me) that a melodic death metal band sounds clear on tape, mainly because they are not playing straight forward aggressive metal, they cant disguised their mistakes with loud and fast double bass and brutal vocals because the idea of mellow death are the melodies, so they better be clear or the entire essence of the music gets lost.

Beyond Your Mind has a couple of sections of clean vocals mainly in Black Dragon, and Eric Olguin can scream but he can’t sing with clean vocals, so he ends up ruining a pretty good section of the songs. You got some keyboards in Reflexions In The Light, they are ok, not outstanding, just ok; they sound more like melodic black metal keyboards than what you can expect for a band that plays death metal, but I guess they gave a peculiar sound to the song.

The bad thing about this album other than the production and mix is that there aren’t any outstanding songs; there are a couple of good moments but nothing more. The extension in my opinion doesn’t help Beyond Your Mind; the majority of the songs go from 6 to 8 minutes, making this a one hour long album.

Like I said before a very good attempt, but it didn’t quite make it; the one thing this album did for me, was made me look for their other records, to see if they manage to fix the production mistakes committed on Beyond Your Mind.