In the days when In Flames were not yet a well-known, well-deserved and rich group, its participants worked in parallel in several teams. However, when band was noticed and began to gain popularity, for the rest projects musicians simply had no time left. Most of the side groups were irretrievably forgotten.
Dimension Zero just from the category of "glorious past." Band was founded in 1995 by two In Flames guitarists, Jesper Strömblad and Glenn Ljungström. Line up were composed of Diabolique drummer Hans Nilsson and Cardinal Sin vocalist Joachim Götberg. In this line up, Dimension Zero recorded one small EP in 1997. But due to the employment of participants in other groups, this project was closed.
In 2000, when In Flames already released the last decent melodic death album "Clayman" and began to delve into the electronic experiments of their next "Reroute to Remain", Jesper and Glenn (at that time already left In Flames) decided to return golden time and revive Dimension Zero. Old acquaintances Hans and Joachim also accepted the invitation to play.
In the fall of 2001, the band began recording their debut album. Co-producer and sound producer on the album, by the way, was Anders Friden, singer of In Flames. Mastering was done by Goran Finnberg, who did the same procedure with In Flames’ works “Whoracle” and “Colony”. The album was designed by Niklas Sundin from Dark Tranquility.
The debut studio work "Silent Night Fever" went on sale in May 2002. For some reason, Regain Records on the back of the publication was date 2001. Because of this, on the heap of sites release of this album is listed in 2001, however, as you understood, this is not quite so.
The first EP Dimension Zero gravitate to death-thrash. Moreover, the emphasis there was on thrash. All the standard moves and techniques of the German thrash guard of the 80s, but with a slight touch of death sound.
On "Silent Night Fever" the approach remains the same. However, small details have been altered and weighted. Why studio work can be called a sample of old Swedish MDM. The album lasts a little more than half an hour. Material listens well, does not allow to relax. Everything is as it should. I rather liked it than not.
All songs are very fast! The only exception is the final instrumental composition "Slow Silence". But if it is not taken into account, then the rest of the material was very tough and "purposeful," so to speak. It seems that the guys have finally reached the recording studio and they have spilled out all their energy that they have accumulated over the years .
Remember what year 2002 was. Former heroes of melodic death began experimenting with the keys, introduced different electronic elements to the music, or warmed up with clean vocals. And here comes "Silent Night Fever" - straightforwardly beating on the nostalgia of fans of the classic MDM. So I only support such albums.
Dimension Zero tried to perform with concerts. And they were normally accepted. Especially in Japan. So the guys decided not to consider this a one-time project and sat down to record the second album, which was released in 2003.
