It is quite tough to review this release, because I don’t really know what to think about it. Some tracks have real nice guitar work and vocals. Songs like ‘Masquerade Of Sickness (The Eve Of Reckoning)’ or ‘Phosphor’ are really good. The first sounds really rigid and contains a high quality solo. On the other hand I must admit that most songs do not affect me. They are well played and musically there is nothing wrong with them, but the little spark is missing. But maybe I should not be complaining this much, for most songs sound quite well. As you might have guessed from the title, this album is inspired by the dark world of H.P. Lovecraft. It’s divided into three chapters, and the third chapter is their never released second demo ‘Rose Haven’.

The three songs that this chapter contains sound different from the rest of the album. On these songs the screams have a much lesser role, the clean male and female vocals are more important. I must say that the music of Dawn Of Relic is very diverse. They travel the paths of black and death, but also have acoustic parts. They use screams, but also clean male and female vocals come across. I like it when music is not rectilinear and when multiple sources are used. Whether this Finnish band will follow bands like Children Of Bodom or Sentenced, I doubt. But they undeniably have potential.