Review DOGMA ‘Dogma’

Dogma is a four-piece band that releases their new album these days. Lilith, Lamia, Nixe and Abrahel, these four girls are Dogma and they are on a mission that they have summed-up in 13 principles and commands, listed on their website. It’s about freedom, independence, and self-determination while any kind of oppression is unacceptable. The band underlines it with provocative videos like for the heavy pounding ‘Carnal Liberation’, taken from the new album.

With this good intention in kid, let’s have a look into the music that we get offered on ‘Dogma’. Somewhere located in the twilight of modern rock and metal the girls focus on the same target group as bands like The Pretty Reckless and In This Moment. In Dogma’s case though, things are more melodic and have the potential to please the mainstream. This might help to spread their message but is musically not a real wow-effect.

I have to say though, that the catchy melodies stick like chewing gum in the high-noon sun and it starts with ‘Forbidden Zone’. Although some rock-fueled guitars appear here and there it’s the keyboards that pour some sugar at you.

Dogma make use of the entire toolbox of modern rock, like during the dramatic ‘Free Yourself’, actually one of the pounding highlights on the album. Furthermore, there is the dramatic and musical-like Make Us Proud’ follows by the bell that introduces ‘Pleasure From Pain’.

To sum up. Dogma launch an album that comes with thirteen catchy songs, all in the on-the-shelf framework of well-crafted modern rock. It doesn’t take long to become fascinated by the melodies spread by the album and at the same time it isn’t much that remains after the last tone faded away. It’s like a musical sugar injection that provides fun for a while before the usual appetite starts again.