🎶 From Ashes Reborn
🌎Wittlich, Germany
📀 Chasing Utopia
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📅 06/03/2026
FROM ASHES REBORN is a band that was created in 2017 by the members of Death Metallers BADOC and quickly became obvious that they wanted to remain faithful to Death Metal but also add a little melody to their songs. In 2018, they released their debut album and 8 years later, «Chasing Utopia» seems to be performing at the highest level of Melodious Death Metal.
We are talking about an album that lasts a little over 60 minutes and includes 13 songs, including the intro “Colossal March” and “Interlude”. Their follow the classic Melodic Death Metal school of Gothenburg with several dark passages while the lyrics, as they say, try to find meaning in a world that falls apart and is in decay. Their influences are quite obvious…IN FLAMES, DARK TRANQUILLITY, INSOMNIUM etc. The strong element of «Chasing Utopia» is the particularly technical guitars and the solos that fill the album with moments of delight and give character to the album. Its long duration is an issue as it seems to repeat itself in some parts but in the general picture it is something that does not disturb. Fans of Melodic Death Metal will surely have no problem with that. Another characteristic is the change in speed from slow and mid-tempo to more thrashy like for example in «Soulless Legions». «Summoning The Shadows» has an excellent atmospheric introduction, «Through Darkest Fires» introduces us with one of the many amazing guitar solos, while «One With My Demons» is dark and heavy. In «Beyond Infinity» we see a more emotional side and in “Chasing Utopia”, drums are on fire.
It should be emphasized that the band handled the entire recording, production, and mixing process themselves which resulted in a quite old school but quality sound. In general, «Chasing Utopia» is a particularly inspired and well-crafted album, rich in ideas and I believe that the long absence from discography was the reason behind the long duration of it. So many ideas, so little time…
★ 8/10
✍🏻 Kostas Boudoukos
