Musically speaking, "The Day Of Victory" is a HUGE step forward from their previous works: the band from the Po Valley had never managed to put melodeath sounds together with strings, keyboards and symphonic elements in such a successful manner. In short, this is a conceptually imposing and "important" work, perhaps even more so than the aforementioned "The Diarist". Exactly in the middle of the album we can listen to a track dedicated to the Decabrists and to the poems that Puskin wrote for them in 1825 ("The Decembrists"). The eight tracks, plus intro and outro, of this record accompany the movements of the Red Army towards Berlin ("Red Blocks") up to the signature of the German Surrender on ("Victory"). At that point, they could go back to treating one of their favorite topics, World War II as seen from the Soviet Union front this topic was already the core theme of the monumental and amazing "The Diarist", focused on the diary of a woman who had experienced the siege of Leningrad. In 2014, after four studio albums and a live show in Mexico City, Dark Lunacy didn't have to prove their worth to anyone anymore, and perhaps the pressure got a bit lighter as well. After having listened to "The Day Of Victory", that work feels even more like an album of transition, embodying the passage to a new line-up and a way for Mike of proving that he was still standing and able to go on. We have been waiting for Mike Lunacy and the others after their previous effort "Weaver Of Forgotten" (2010) that, I must say, didn't really impress me. There is much to be said about the latest Dark Lunacy album, and it is not easy to put the ideas together.
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