Review from Gorger's Metal

April 22, 2016
From: Gorger's Metal
Published: April 18, 2016

Russian Negative Voice is a band in the crossfire from many neighbouring genres.
Imagine a busy intersection where flickering headlights fly by while sun and moon chases each other rapidly across the screen in a time-lapse video.
In a small enclosure in the middle of this crossing, however, time passes slowly. There, Negative Voice performs their progressive form of dark doom. 

With elements, partly of a technical nature, partly in mood, from death/doom and post-metal, with hints of black in the vocals, the Russians blends their doomy pot-pourri, seasoned with progressive vibes. 

I mentioned the possibility of music best suited after dark when discussing Nazghor a few days ago. Cold Redrafted is for me definitely an album that works best in the wee hours, when the world lowers its pulse. I can also vividly imagine early birds who quietly turn the pages of their newspaper over a steaming fresh cup of coffee or tea next to the kitchen window as daylight gradually rise on the horizon at dawn. This is quiet music with a resting heart rate. 

Purely subjective, I'm not necessarily particularly excited about calm and soaring music without heaviness and punch, but Negative Voice still stands out in a positive way among others sleepwalkers by bidding on nice melodies and good variation via smooth transitions. Lulling bass and dreamy guitars meets contrasting vocals and adequate percussion than can occasionally be quite vital. 

My suppressed unbiased tastebuds, and the midnight owl in me endorses Cold Redrafted. Especially when both inner and outer night mode is activated.

My bright awake, adrenalin seeking and navel-gazing side, on the other hand, sneeze somewhat at this fairly ambulant, melancholic, rather “puny and jazzy post-doom” metal.
If you have a taste for serene and relaxing, almost frail music of this kind, I doubt you'll regret setting aside roughly 46 minutes to hear the album underneath before you decide whether to buy it or not. 

 

Review from Merchants of Air

April 21, 2016
From: Merchants of Air
Published: April 16, 2016

Let's get a bit more extreme, not necessarily faster but certainly darker and harsher. I'd like to turn your attention to the second album by Moscow (Russia) residents Negative Voice. It's an album that shows how a band can evolve, transcend genre-boundaries and reinvent whatever they do. It is presented as blackened doom metal, but there's so much more to this album and it's definitely worth your attention.

The album opens with the e...

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Review from Dark Souls United

April 16, 2016
From: Dark Souls United
Published: April 15, 2016

Negative Voice is a band from Moscow that shows a sound like a Russian Opeth: the songs are long, it follows one metric, and it relies heavily on the changes of phrases like a thousand sounds gathered together.

The track Limitation shows this kind of approach and it’s clearly a carbon copy of the Swedish act.

Even the timbres of the guitars are Opeth-esque as shown in the track City Of Decaying Gaze with clean vocals and harsh vocal...

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Review from Ultraje

April 14, 2016
From: Ultraje
Published: April 11, 2016

Não são muitos os discos que deixam o ouvinte apaixonado logo no primeiro instante, mas “Cold Redrafted”, dos russos Negative Voice, é um dos casos que agarra logo. Este é o segundo longa-duração de uma banda formada em 2000 e que, inclusivamente, já passou por um hiato. As notas iniciais são tão cativantes que, depois disso, as expectativas sobem tanto que um resto menos conseguido pode deixar qualquer um cabisbaixo. Mas nada h...

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Review from Keep the Metal Flowing

April 14, 2016
From: Keep the Metal Flowing
Published: April 11, 2016

Here's an interesting band: Russia's Negative Voice. They merge different extreme metal genres flawlessly, with a melodic flare that keeps the music very balanced and dynamic, and isn't merely blasting for 30 or 40 minutes (not that there's a thing wrong with that). From what their Facebook page says they're a four piece, and they just released their sophomore album, "Cold Redrafted" via Hypnotic Dirge Records. I've been listen...

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Review from Five Albums / Chris Nee

April 11, 2016
From: Five Albums / Chris Nee
Published: April 8, 2016

Released next Monday, Cold Redrafted is the second full-length album by Moscow band Negative Voice. They're specialists in blackened, death-infused doom metal, and, if this record's anything to go by, there's a real progressive attitude behind a brand of beautifully played metal that respects no boundary. This is a thoroughly enjoyable second outing. The album ends with 'Draft Life', which rumbles along with a thickness of inte...

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 Released: April 11, 2016
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Genre: Blackened Melodic Doom Metal

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