Falgar - La dama del alba (2013)

Band: Falgar 

Album: La dama del alba 

Genre: Black Metal 

Country: Puerto Rico 

Size: 87 Mb 

Tracklist: 

01. Invocación 01:11 

02. La Dama Del Alba 06:57 

03. Renacimiento 06:25 

04. Seguiré 05:46 

05. Fango Y Frío 05:11 

06. Laberintos 05:54 

07. Artemisa 06:25

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Thanks to: eisenblut.tk

Closed Room - Closed Room (2012)

What if Amesoeurs weren’t from France but from Belarus, tangled more into trip hop instead of shoegaze and produced music without the hype created by the other projects the members were involved’s fans. You’d get Closed Room. Having released their debut in 2012, a claustrophobic and rather weird experience (especially for someone who didn’t listen to trip hop before) that certainly isn’t for everyone.

This is music that could be interesting to both the ”post” metal crowd and the trip hop/experimental music fans. 

The keyword when trying  to understand Closed Room is, of course, experimental. This offering can’t be categorized in any certain genre, as it has bits of everything: from crunchy metal riffs to hypnotic trip hop beats and even at times jazzy progressions. Members of C. R. for sure did not lack diversity when they’ve put this together. This is what Amesoeurs would have sounded like if they didn’t play it safe and were big fans of Ulver. Closed Room feels like the life span of a confused being; starting with a blurred vision of what is yet to come, opener Behind the Locked Door sets the mood right for the following 40 minutes. Tremolo picked riffs with weird samples, confusing you even more before heading to the next track.

The best track on this opus is Fly to the Sunrise, the most Amesoeurs-ish sounding piece ever composed after the now defunct band disbanded in early 2009. This is the first sample of C. R. I heard and it certainly made the Amesoeurs fan boy inside me really, really happy. Morena’s vocals are more lustful and even better than Audrey Sylvain could ever deliver with Amesoeurs; they bring a beautiful touch to the instrumental blend.  

I’m glad Fly to the Sunrise is the only song on this album of its kind, if everything sounded in this vein, they would have been labelled as just another Amesoeurs clone. Instead they brought all their creative writing together and made a very diverse and interesting sounding album.

Closed Room’s debut isn’t music for the masses. It’s mostly meant as an intimate musical journey, on a gloomy rainy day or a sleepless night

9/10

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Blaze of Sorrow - Echi (2012)

Whilst black metal from Italy isn’t new (Bulldozer, Necrodeath) it certainly is something I am not quite familiar with. It seems the Italian underground scene is filled with interesting bands that are way buried in and just wait to be dug up. Such band is Blaze of Sorrow, a duo consisted of Peter – vocals and guitars and N. – drums. Now, Blaze of Sorrow isn’t your typical „tremolo picked Satan riff blast beat band”, it may seem more appropriate to say it’s a mixture of genres such as post rock or punk rock.

Echi isn’t your common bedroom recording, Peter, the man who wrote all the music, clearly sat and made all the arrangements sound right, not rushed with little if not none improvisation. To put this simple, it sounds like a stylish and „post” Imperium Dekadenz record. You have it all here, blast beats, acoustic passages, wailing guitars, dual harmonies and epic Bathory war chants (especially on „Echi”). Whilst not being the most original record out in 2012, it surely stands out as an album done right. It’s black metal and most important music written with passion. Tracks like „All’ignoto” and „Echi” really kick in and make you feel the care Peter had when he was writing it. We have melancholic music made for people who can understand and relate to the situation imagined.

The atmosphere is key on „Echi”. Since track one, we are induced in a melancholic but almost a way epic trance that continues vigorously until the last seconds. I feel that using their native language in order to express themselves was an inspired choice; there are certain things English can’t express or does not feel right especially for someone who isn’t a native speaker. Musicianship is at its prime here, as well as the production. Every instrument is clear and can be heard at any time. 

This is definitely an album fans of Alcest, Agalloch and Nyktalgia will enjoy even if only a few tracks or the whole record. 

Standout tracks: All’ignoto, Echi, A spettanda il tempo.

9/10

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Burzum - Sol austan, Mani vestan (2013)

"Sol austan, Mani vestan" is the 11th album from Burzum and a return to a purely electronic and instrumental expression. "Sol austan, Mani vestan" is different from all the older albums, and yet similar to all of them, and is in style more than anything similar to the oldest ambient music of Burzum, like the tracks "Tomhet", "Han som reiste" and "Channelling the power of Minds into a new God". "Sol austan, Mani vestan" is inspired by and made for the "ForeBears" movie by Marie Cachet and Varg Vikernes, where much of the Scaldic music from "Sol austan, Mani vestan" appears, only in unmastered form, as a soundtrack.

 Burzum says of the new album: "Sol austan, Mani vestan" will feature almost an hour of instrumental electronic music, that can best be described as relaxing, slow-paced, contemplative and very much original. And of the concept Burzum says; I have still not been able to leave behind the Pagan religious-spiritual concept of a descent into darkness and the following ascend back into the light; the Pagan initiation, the elevation of man to the divine, the enlightenment of the mind, the feeding of the elven light in man.

 1. Sol austan (East of the Sun) 

2. Runar munt bu finna (You shall find Secrets) 

3. Solarras (Sun-journey) 

4. Haugaeldr (Burial Mound Fire) 

5. Fedrahellir (Forebear-Cave) 

6. Solargudi (Sun-god) 

7. Ganga at solu (Deasil) 

8. Hid (Bear's Lair) 

9. Heljarmyrkr (Death's Darkness) 

10. Mani vestan (West of the Moon) 

11. Solbjorg (Sunset) 

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