Ovi Nijemci su na sceni još od 2004.i ovo je njihov peti dugosvirajući opus. Dali su sebi ime prema kapetanu kitolovca u romanu Moby Dick, opsjednutom lovom na legendarnog kita. Muzika koju Ahab sviraju je mračan, duboki i spori funeral doom, jako, jako atmosferičan i bučan sa dugim pjesmama, growling death vokalom ispremiješanim sa odličnim clean melodičnim vokalom i kada slušaš njihove stvari osjećaš ritmom kao da te nemilosrdni valovi oceana melju i vuku u dubine bez da si možeš pomoći. Album je dug, preko sat vremena u sedam pjesama od kojih je najkraća šest i pol minuta, a najduža skoro dvanaest i pol minuta. No, nema veze, svaka minuta je interesantna i jako je dobro uživiti se u ovaj bend i njihove albume i dopustiti mašti i srcu da te odvedu nekuda daleko, otkuda se možda nećeš vratiti, ali možda ni nećeš željeti vratiti. Ovo je glazba za po doma, ali siguran sam da su i njihovi live koncerti odličan doživljaj ako si u pravom stanju uma. Moji favoriti na ovom albumu: ‘Mobilis in Mobili’, ‘A Coral Tomb’. Jedan od najboljih doom bendova ikada.
Finnish cult band Mustan Kuun Lapset celebrates thirty years of existence and what better way to celebrate it than with new EP. This new opus contains three new songs and one rendition of old classic, one of the best known in their existence called ‘Morfiinisiivet ‘. This EP provides guest performances by for example, French professional cellistAxel Salmona, guitarist of the Norwegian metal band In the Woods... Kåre André Sletteberg, and Voice of Finland finalist and Before the Dawn vocalistPaavo Laapotti. Cello. piano and violin give richness and sweetness to dark music and darkness provided by this band. ‘Kirstunkantaja’ is a kind of instrumental intro, but ‘Muistoa kunnioittaen’ is a lesson in dark metal that only this band can do, mixture of perfect extreme black and death metal with melody and melancholy. Clean vocals interplay perfectly with growls and melodic heavy metal influenced hooks and passages, yet retaining enough darkness in the music. ‘On suruaika täytetty’ is for me the best song on this little opus, Paavo Laapotti delivering such great vocal performance as guest on this song, also violin and cello made goosebumps on my skin listening to this haunting melody and song as a whole. The new rendition of ‘Morfiinisiivet’ gave new vision and life to this anthem, thus finishing this celebratory EP. Great and best wishes!
I really can’t believe how I missed this band and not listening to their opus until now. Ne Obliviscaris released their fourth full length opus finally, after all the trouble with pandemia and shit around the world which delayed recording and production of this beauty. This one contains six songs, which are longer in duration but in no way boring for one second. Music is for me a mixture of progressive metal and melodic death doom metal with violin adding to sombre and melancholic touch of the whole atmosphere. I love the interplay between Tim Charles’ clean vocals rich with melody and growls of other vocalist Xenoyr. I love the concept of ‘Misericorde I’ and ‘Misericorde II’ a kind of heart of this album, at least for me. Lyrics deal with death, decay, grief as doom themes and battles and mythological stories as part of more prog, even power metal backgrounds in some songs. Anyway, this album is the one you should listen as a whole and not in parts, because only then you will understand the grandeur behind it and how beautiful metal music can take you somewhere else.
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