Instrumentally speaking, Dark The Suns remains abnormally lacking in both the technical and excitement departments during the whole listening affair. Take for instance the riffing, which is based on bland one-chord strums that occasionally involves finger movement, and on mega-rare intervals, the grand daddy of them all: a different chord! Our guitar woes mope around with bass-snare drumming while vague piano notes tap on an endless cycle of repetition, yet there aren’t any solos, cool keyboard effects, or differed beats, of course. Mikko Ojala’s growls ironically match the atmosphere’s utter dullness as he appears sloppy, withdrawn, unfitting, and just too much of a boring vocalist for anyone to find a depressing sanctuary. A dark sun indeed!

But while experiencing Dark The Suns’ first major release, it becomes rather obvious these Germans can’t even write decent material. Here’s the entire record from start to finish: open with slow and powerless riffs, introduce some four-note keyboard patterns, enter vocals, use a clean bridge, go back into pseudo-heaviness, and finally end. Yea applying the diagram in question could probably work nicely for maybe three tracks, but assigning it ten different times in hopes of a good disc? Nope! Honestly, once you’ve heard a single tune from In Darkness Comes Beauty, there isn’t another reason to hear something else, because that’s the whole thing. Can I have my forty minutes back now?