From the Wrong Side of the Aperture
{{Infobox album
| name = From the Wrong Side of the Aperture
| type = studio
| artist = Draconic
| cover = Fromthewrongsideoftheaperture.jpg
| alt =
| released = April 3, 2009
| recorded = Chainroom Studio, Senta, Serbia
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Progressive metal
Industrial metal
Symphonic black metal
| length = 50:38
| label = Noisehead Records
| producer = Nikola Mijić
Marjan Mijić
Draconic
| prev_title = Conflux
| prev_year = 2004
| next_title =
| next_year =
}}
From the Wrong Side of the Aperture is the second studio album of the Serbian metal band Draconic. The album was recorded in 2008, and released in 2009 through Austrian label Noisehead Records. The album marked the band's shift from symphonic black metal towards progressive metal.
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = Stormbringer
| rev1Score = {{rating|2.5|5}} [http://www.stormbringer.at/reviews.php?id=3702 link]
| rev2 = Popboks
| rev2Score = {{Rating|8|10}} [http://www.popboks.com/tekst.php?ID=7298 link]
| rev3 = Metal Monday
| rev3Score = (favorable) {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110403005849/http://www.ourstage.com/blog/2010/5/10/metal-monday-draconics-from-the-wrong-side-of-aperture-review link]}}
| rev4 = Trablmejker
| rev4Score = {{Rating|4|5}}
| noprose = yes
}}
Track listing
All songs written and performed by Draconic.
- "Through Escape" - 5:34
- "Opaque" - 5:20
- "The Amnesia Transmissions" - 4:27
- "This Time There Would be No Witnesses" - 4:42
- "Bleak Future Trauma" - 2:09
- "The Imbecile" - 7:23
- "Murder The Distance" - 4:11
- "Of the Pulse and the Iris" - 5:11
- "Laudanum" - 12:04
Reception
The album was generally well received by the Serbian reviewers. Vladimir Ninčić of Popboks stated that From the Wrong Side of the Aperture presents Serbia's first world-class metal record.{{cite web|url=http://www.popboks.com/tekst.php?ID=7298|title=From The Wrong Side Of The Aperture review on Popboks|year=2009|accessdate=15 April 2010|archive-date=9 February 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100209184516/http://www.popboks.com/tekst.php?ID=7298|url-status=dead}} On the other hand, German Stormbringer gave this album 2.5/5 stars, praising the band's technicality and will to successfully break through the autistic Serbian metal scene, but criticized the band with the statement that the album was not a unique piece of metal, musically speaking.{{cite web|url=http://www.stormbringer.at/reviews.php?id=3702|title=review on stormbringer|year= 2009|accessdate=2 June 2010 }}
Personnel
- David Lazar Galić - bass guitar, vocals
- Miloš "MC Mike" Kovačević - drums
- Branislav Stanković - keyboards, vocals
- Marjan Mijić - vocals, recording, producer
- Uroš Andrijašević - guitar
- Vanja Dušan Andrijašević - guitar
=Additional personnel=
- Nikola Mijić - recording, producer
- Marko Galić - keyboards (on "Of the Pulse and the Iris")
- Valter Cijan - album art
References
External links
- [http://www.popboks.com/tekst.php?ID=7298 Popboks Review] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100209184516/http://www.popboks.com/tekst.php?ID=7298 |date=2010-02-09 }}
- [http://www.popboks.com/tekst.php?ID=7431 Interview with David Lazar Galić on Popboks]
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