Dark The Suns - Sleepwalking In A Nightmare

The sound of the rain is purifying, almost hypnotizing. Somewhere in the distance the scattered notes of an otherworldly piano are escorting the sound of the falling rain drops as time seems to stand still. These sounds signal the transition to a dream or a nightmare. The mourning guitars are paving the way to an undefined world where the desperate vocals of Mikko Ojala (sounding more like screams of agony) plunge you deeper and deeper into a gloomy dark trance from which you are suddenly retracted by the mesmerizing call of Eliisa Tuomanen’s voice. A sound so threatening and so sweet like the Siren’s call. A sound that when merged with the crippled notes of a long forgotten piano composing an obscure crescendo that compels the listener like the drifter of the dark is compelled by a shimmering flame heading towards it ignoring its source and the danger the lurks near. For him all that matters is the warmth and beauty of the flame.
\r\n“Sleepwalking In A Nightmare” is the third release of the Finnish Dark the Suns and it’s nothing more than a different version of the Legend that they have created with the release of their dark masterpiece bearing the title “All End In Silence” a year ago. The new album is no different than the previous neither the same. Besides, nightmares are never the same, they vary in shape and tension but they manage to create the same old feeling. The feeling of surfacing terror.  So as in any dream or nightmare there is a strange consistency, an absurd logic that drags you deep and when you get back to “reality” all you have manage to gather are scattered fragments of what used to be so real, so in this album all I managed to “bring back” from my strange trip were the tracks “Don’t Fear The Sleep”, “Lake Of A Thousand Tears” and “Walking With An Angel”. I got  the last one more out of need for that shining companion of our lives that once managed to pierce the darkness of our souls with its glowing beauty, even when its intentions turned out to be cruel.
\r\nSo, whatever feeling you get by listening to this one, be it sorrow, grief, euphoria or serenity the fact is that it will touch you. That’s its power. It will bend the limits of your reality confusing your mind and stretching your fragile sanity. Besides, reality most of the times is more terrifying than your worst nightmare. So next time you feel like “Sleepwalking In A Nightmare” you might be surprised to find out that you’re probably wide awake!
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\r\nDimitris Karantounias \r\n