A Review of the Album ``Forever Halloween'' by The Megas

Under review is another album of music I've liked, available for listening and purchase on Bandcamp:
https://themegas.bandcamp.com/album/forever-halloween

I once again review a particularly small album from this band, and will try to provide some depth to
make up for the length.  I've yet to review a few more small albums by this band, one which I've yet
to hear, but any music by this band is generally worth hearing, and Bandcamp makes listening gratis.

The album entries follow ordered by my preference, their names, their durations, and album ordering:

       Forever Halloween 04:32 1
> Every Day Is Halloween 04:49 2

As with any other short album, or really any album whatsoever, no review compares merely to hearing,
but no attempt hurts; the album details the life of a demented and spooky man implied to be Dracula.
Both songs are roughly the same duration, and both are appropriately spooky listening for Halloween.

The first track begins with an echo which becomes a guitar repeating the melody.  There's an obvious
inspiration from the ``Castlevania'' games but with a modern and technological bent in its music and
lyrics.  It tells the tale of a man, perhaps, slowly building up resources reminiscent of the games,
but all artificial and mechanical in nature.  The song features regular chanting one would expict in
such a song, particularly ``The horror, the horror!'' and then ``Forever!  Forever!''.  In the final
third the track takes on a slightly slower beat, using fewer instruments, and speaks more of eternal
night and the like before returning to its chorus once more.  The song dies out without any fanfare.
While pleasant, I feel the instruments are overshadowed easily by the quality of the singing herein.

The second and last track is unlike the first, much more slow and with generally softer instruments;
the drum makes the song resemble a chant in its meaningless chorus.  This song is defensive, sung by
a man who wants to be understood for his bizarre appearance and clothing, whereas the former song is
offensive; that first track is something akin to a declaration of war, whereas this track is more of
a lamentation.  The song keeps the same basic groove throughout for the most part, only occasionally
becoming more upbeat; meaninglessness is more of a theme, with a long stretch of noise near the end.
The singing may overshadow the instruments in this track also, but to a significantly lesser degree;
the lyrics are much more regularly broken up by chanting than in the prior track, and the grief they
portray works to make them a tad less enjoyable to me than the other.  This song dies out similarly,
but more dramatically than that first, in the middle of one incomplete lyric repeated over and over.

I originally began to review this album weeks ago, though decided on something more recent then, but
it's downright appropriate now in October.  These songs are certainly worth a listen each Halloween.
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