Ok I’m gonna break it down for you as easy as I can, doom metal with death and black vocals, a lot of keyboards, some violins and very gothic atmospheres.
Little Dead Bertha is a Russian band from Voronezh to be more precise, and this is their fourth studio album; according to the press sheet, the band has experimented different stages in their music, going from thrash metal, to gothic, to the now a mix of melodic death, doom, black and death metal…well that pretty much covers every single genre out there!
Way Of Blind, has its moments, but that same variety on styles been played at the same time makes this album really hard to get into. The doom parts are nice, but suddenly the black vocals come in and later the death ones, and later the violins, and just a little later the keyboard and the female vocals all mix into one confusing piece of musicianship.
The guitars on Way Of Blind remind me of early In Flames, you know the Jester Race era; there are a couple of riffs that sound very melodic and folk but yet somehow metal, and this is the factor that makes Little Dead Bertha a band worth listening to, the riffs; sure the death vocals are nice and the song structure is complicated and shows great talent, but if it wasn’t for the nice rhythms been display by the guitar, this whole album will fall apart in a second.
This is a complicated album; it’s hard to actually enjoy the keyboards and the violins, since they are placed all over the place and sometimes they are not given some “room” to actually maneuver and show what they can really do, but just when you are about to give up on them a great segment like in “I Don't Believe” make you give them a second change. And that’s what this album is, a 52 minute long experiment with some segments that the band should have recognize as the best and stick to, so that they can produce a more remarkable and tight sound; My Evil Wish is one of the best songs in the album, but again the band complicates it self too much and the essence of the song is lost on all the different elements they tried to compress in a short period of time. This album has a 7.5 on rating thanks to the great death metal vocals and the guitars; the rest is just too much placed into a little space where it really didn’t fit.
