From the Wrong Side of the Aperture

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From the Wrong Side of the Aperture
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 3, 2009
RecordedChainroom Studio, Senta, Serbia
Genre Progressive metal
Industrial metal
Symphonic black metal
Length50:38
Label Noisehead Records
Producer Nikola Mijić
Marjan Mijić
Draconic
Draconic chronology
Conflux
(2004)
From the Wrong Side of the Aperture
(2009)

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.

Contents

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Track listing

All songs written and performed by Draconic.

  1. "Through Escape" - 5:34
  2. "Opaque" - 5:20
  3. "The Amnesia Transmissions" - 4:27
  4. "This Time There Would be No Witnesses" - 4:42
  5. "Bleak Future Trauma" - 2:09
  6. "The Imbecile" - 7:23
  7. "Murder The Distance" - 4:11
  8. "Of the Pulse and the Iris" - 5:11
  9. "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. [1] 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. [2]

Personnel

Additional personnel

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References

  1. "From The Wrong Side Of The Aperture review on Popboks". 2009. Archived from the original on 9 February 2010. Retrieved 15 April 2010.
  2. "review on stormbringer". 2009. Retrieved 2 June 2010.