The track starts with an echoing guitar, with a clean tone, meditating on this riff. A banjo joins in to give the music a bit of a rhythmic backbone. Vocals enter the mix, and his vibrato heavy voice sings "O my brother oh my, your wings darken the night sky, and the fire made the flesh cry. All these lives around us, hiding in the dark, waiting for the feast to start." The words and the music create this cold, haunting, beautiful moment. The intro verse is repeated, as the music and vocals grow more intense, yet never leaving that clean tone.
A second verse starts at ~2:19, with Makó's voice yelling into darkness, "Don't leave now, watch them stars die, the end is whirling around. Don't leave now, dead sister of mine, so we meet it's time, don't leave now. If only I could see your smile." The emotions and feelings these moments evoke are ghostly, eerie, and steeped in sorrowful memory. Makó sings into the void again backed by even more intense music at ~2:57 repeatedly saying "don't leave now," before ending this section with "if only I could see your smile." It is dripping in melancholy and pain.
With the utterance of "smile", the echoing guitar effects disappear, and we're returned to a cold and sobering moment where Makó sings "My brother, O my brother, The wind says it's still not time to meet her, my dead sister." This repeats , like the previous verses, and I wonder if he's speaking to someone or himself. Is he contemplating killing his companion, only to realize that the time isn't right, and this person will have to wait to meet this dead sister? Is it perhaps its the character's own will to continue going instead of giving up and letting nature take him to his sister? Perhaps listening to the whole album will yield these answers
Dávid Makó delivers a haunting piece of music that's gripping and evocative. I look forward to hearing the rest of this album, and to digging into his other releases. He's making his Season Of Mist debut with his album The Call Of The Iron Peak, which should be released August 28th, 2020. According to his bandcamp, he's been releasing music since October 2014. I've also included his bio from his Season Of Mist page because it paints a very descriptive picture of this artist:
"Be it the folk of the Appalachians, the tales of Hungarian and Transylvanian traditions, singer-songwriter Dávid Makó, who redefined himself as THE DEVIL'S TRADE a few years ago, fuses his past of metal and his roots laying deep in the folk songs of his immediate surroundings. Very much like the Iron Peak, a mountaintop both metaphorical and literal is calling for Makó, he is calling for you to share his rituals of loves and hopes lost and found along the pilgrimage of his. It is after all, the journey itself that matters the most, and how you adapt. From basements in his hometown of Budapest, to all corners of Europe, stages small and big, THE DEVIL'S TRADE has been relentlessly walking on his path finding his voice and calling, and that is to let listeners to glimpse into himself through his heart wrenching songs."
Check out "Dead Sister" here
Pre-order The Call Of The Iron Peak here
Bonus! Living Gate's EP is streaming in full on YouTube! Check it out here
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