It is quite unbelievable how many bands with -Draconis in their bandname exist, and too bad they all sound uninteresting as well. The same goes for Sigma Draconis, a symphonic Italian Black Metal band.
Apart from the third track ‘Nightspell under a funeral storm’, it all sounds boring and spiritless. Black Metal should be music from the soul and that is what lacks most on this album. All songs are played well and it doesn’t sound bad at all and also the musicians know how to handle their instruments but there is something missing here. That extra touch is needed to stick out of the masses and with ‘De Rervm Natvra’ Sigma Draconis won’t stick out of the masses.
The biography says that SigmaDraconis is living this music and it is all very spiritual to them but sorry guys, those statements won’t do it anymore anno 2004, unless the music really does spread that spiritualistic touch; and to me it surely doesn’t.
For the interested ones, Sigma Draconis started around 1999/2000 and they released their first demo called ‘Necromantic art’ in 2000. Three years later a self financed debut album was recorded which turned out as ‘De Rervm Natvra’. As said earlier, Sigma Draconis plays symphonic Black Metal with a heavy use of the keyboards and sometimes it reminds me of the faster and heavy tracks from Italian Evol (although Sigma Draconis doesn’t use the instrumental ‘in-between’ intermezzo’s/songs).
Furthermore there isn’t that much to say about this album. If you really dig this kind of symphonic Black Metal then check this album out. If you’ve heard more than enough of those uninspiring symphonic bands, like I do, then spend your money on something else.
