Tir started its musical journey in Turkey, but now it resides in Australia. The music of Tir can be described as dungeon synth with dark ambient, dark/neofolk influences in the songwriting and song structures. This record offers 15 songs of epic soundscape. The atmosphere is majestic, epic, yet at the same time sometimes eerie. Dungeon synth is not the music for wide masses and for ordinary people, but all of the hearts that are really into it will find themselves more than satisfied with this album. My personal favorites on this one are Righteous Viraz with such epic almost fantasy melody and also The Dragon King Raised an Army having such vibe and atmosphere that you can almost touch it and feel it with your hands and it can enter all of your body through your eyes, ears and possess your mind and heart having that martial beat and making your skin crawl with goosebumps. But, you will have to find your own personal favorites if you love such music. Go ahead, have a listen, let yourselves go to other dimension with this one.
Time for something from my home country scene, namely Croatian underground scene. Talog was one of the first interviews that I did for this zine back in 2015 with Kktz, individual who is keeping the scene flame burning for more than four decades now through his work in various punk, hardcore, crust, noise and black metal projects and bands. Talog is his one man dark ambient/dungeon synth entity and this is the new release containing two songs with titles in Croatian language. We are talking here about dungeon synth mixed with dark ambient and black ambient, minimalistic but very, very effective. Horror atmosphere and vibe that Talog reaches in its music is impressive. Karpatski Prijestolonasljednik (Heir of Carpathian Throne) starts ominous with such superb eerie melody that you as a listener feel like you are part of the wind blowing over Carpathian mountains at sunset turning into the night. That is at least what I felt while listening to this one. You can see Sun disappearing from cold and sharp teeth of the mountains descending all wild and beautiful Carpathia into blessed night. Pure vampiric melancholy and evil. We the people of Balkans know a lot about vampiric lore around here, so this music fits perfectly to our darkened hearts. Second opus, Apoteoza Roda Neljudskoga (Apotheosis of Inhuman Kind) continues where its predecessor left off, delivering darkness and you almost sink into liquid darkness, the one you can feel while listening to this one. I must say that Talog delivered another masterpiece of darkness.
The people that are following this webzine for a while will remember that we already featured Black Wine Order on this pages when we reviewed their last album.
The mystery surrounding this band/project continues on, the new album arrived on our e-mail address. This band has no Fb page, no official page, and the information about it is scarce on the web. All I dug out is that they are from France and that it is pretty much one man project. Believe it or not, this third album is darker than its predecessor and more scary and fitting to be soundtrack to a horror movie. 9 featured tracks are a the collection of dark ambient music, almost ritualistic in some simplistic elements. We can also find a lot of dungeon synth influences. The tracks where vocals exist are mainly some weird singing, spoken word, some whispering, moaning and the vocals add to the disturbing factor in the music of Black Wine Order. As I said last year, this music is not for everyone, but I love to awaken the darkness within me, so if you have similar taste and you crave for an indulgence in such music, be my guest, get this one!
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