The Italian quartet Heretic’s Dream did record this full length at Apex House Studio (production, engineering and mix) with assistance of e.g. Steve Russell, whom I do know from his studio assistance with Metalcore-oriented acts specifically.
His contribution led to a clean, rather polished and modern sound for sure, which fits to the musical approach of Heretic’s Dream. Translated: modern, poppy material…
Heretic’s Dream are such a band with great intentions and creative ideas, yet with a total lack of ability to concretise this into muscled power. Also translated: it bores the sh*t out of me. Francesca Di Ventura’s vocals are too weak to cope with a Rock / Metal-based concept. The song structures are puerile and silly. The performance is much too goody-goody, almost pathetically poppy’ish. And so on.
Sad, because the artwork and the lyrics might give the impression of more maturity. Not, unfortunately, in this case.
No more energy to be spilled. Better next time… or not at all?...