Making RYM a worse place one review at a time. I'm just here to talk about/review music and discover new stuff, which I've found this site is great for.
they might have a cd copy at my local shop. Maybe it was just Conjuration, I don't remember. I'm not sure what the shipping is to Belgium, might just add up to $30 in the end anyway.
they're supposed to put out a new one soon so maybe they'll do another round of reissues after that.
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...2017-06-26 22:32:19.587698+00
No problem. and right on man, i'll give it a look sometime. Thanks!
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...2017-06-28 20:27:14.641928+00
btw, i'd be interested to hear your thoughts on The Somberlain sometime. I like your reviews quite a bit.
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...2017-06-28 21:52:06.148232+00
Well, the main thing about that band in general is that Jon Nodtveidt drew on several different lineages of metal's history - there's a lot of Iron Maiden and Angel witch in his playing, but there is also a lot of the more extreme ends of thrash in his playing, and even Swedeath since they originally began as one.
The strength of The Somberlain is that it fused all of that together successfully without as much of the sing-songy stuff that sorta plagues its successor. It's very consonant but its sense of harmony is well developed without being just pure ear candy, and Nodtveidt and co. weren't afraid of using ugly/thorny riffs to build tension either, like in "Black Horizons" or "Frozen".
It's fair to ding 'em for using verse/chorus structure, especially compared to their more.. expansive contemperaries in Sacramentum and Dawn, but I still find it compulsively relistenable and the songs move within that template with a sense of fluidity most others didn't. tl;dr: if you like this song, the album's worth checking out as a whole -> "A Land Forlorn"
The strength of The Somberlain is that it fused all of that together successfully without as much of the sing-songy stuff that sorta plagues its successor. It's very consonant but its sense of harmony is well developed without being just pure ear candy, and Nodtveidt and co. weren't afraid of using ugly/thorny riffs to build tension either, like in "Black Horizons" or "Frozen".
It's fair to ding 'em for using verse/chorus structure, especially compared to their more.. expansive contemperaries in Sacramentum and Dawn, but I still find it compulsively relistenable and the songs move within that template with a sense of fluidity most others didn't. tl;dr: if you like this song, the album's worth checking out as a whole -> "A Land Forlorn"