So, this is their third release this year. The first two were ok, but they didn't exactly blow me away. So, I wonder how this will go? And a great cover-art as usual.

Written by AndyMetalFreak on 05.10.2023 at 13:02

So, this is their third release this year. The first two were ok, but they didn't exactly blow me away. So, I wonder how this will go? And a great cover-art as usual.

This was my thought when I saw this. When I see artists release at this rate it’s pretty much always quantity over quality (looking at you Esoctrilihum). I do really love the art style he uses though.

This is very intriguing. This is a one man band from China but he's using polytonic Greek which is not used anymore. There are some web tools which help you turn all Greek to polytonic but still, he seems to have a very extensive knowledge of the Greek language.

Written by BCI on 06.10.2023 at 20:34

This is very intriguing. This is a one man band from China but he's using polytonic Greek which is not used anymore. There are some web tools which help you turn all Greek to polytonic but still, he seems to have a very extensive knowledge of the Greek language.

Polytonic was dropped over 1000 years ago, wasn't it?

^I was under the same impression after the first couple of albums, but on this one, the song "Ἡ Τῆς Ὕβρεως Ἄγγελος", meaning "The Messenger of Hubris" is grammatically incorrect, because the noun Ἄγγελος is masculine, and it should be Ὁ Τῆς Ὕβρεως Ἄγγελος.

The music is interesting, but three albums in less than a year is overkill, in my opinion.

edit: polytonic was dropped in 1982.

Written by nikarg on 07.10.2023 at 17:31

edit: polytonic was dropped in 1982.

Interesting, that's not long ago. How do you just decide to reform a language like that? Swedish and Norwegian are as far as I know pretty much the only Indo-European languages that are still tonal to an extent. But in the Finland dialect of Swedish, there are no tone differences (but they all sound funny already). Makes it impossible to distinguish between a couple hundred words that are only separated by rising/falling tone but can mean entirely different things

Out of the three releases, this one clicked with me. I'm surprised by some incursions in death, thrash and tech, perfectly blending with the overall black metal tone.

For me, this one was not as good as the other two. Still, kudos to this 1 man band for making 3 super dense full-length records in a single year. That's crazy!