Well, I may provoke controversy with this, but in fact, I liked this album a lot more than Om.

I'm not too much into black metal, but I'm starting to get into it a bit more through more atmospheric stuff like that.

It seems to me that this last album was more folk oriented than others like Om. And, well, the folk/atmospheric black balance of the last album seemed to fit my taste a lot more; I'm in love with Vîrstele Pămîntului.

Written by RiouxMax on 04.01.2011 at 01:29

Well, I may provoke controversy with this, but in fact, I liked this album a lot more than Om.

I'm not too much into black metal, but I'm starting to get into it a bit more through more atmospheric stuff like that.

It seems to me that this last album was more folk oriented than others like Om. And, well, the folk/atmospheric black balance of the last album seemed to fit my taste a lot more; I'm in love with Vîrstele Pãmîntului.

varstele pamantului is a comercial album... they are decading since they broke up with the main song writers...btw OM is a masterpiece...

Comercial black metal?? Righttttt:hopeless:, now I'd heard everything.

Uh, this is in no way commercial. not by any stretch. Negru is hoping to reap the benefits of continuing the band name rather than starting over with a fresh name, but it's hardly a commercial powerhouse brand name.

that said, I agree with the general assessment of the reviewer. doesn't quite hold up to OM. Maiestrit is a re-working of an older album, so I didn't consider it in terms of band evolution. it sort of stands off by itself. not a bad album at all. enjoyable, but the bar was set impossibly high.

i think i have it somewhere between 7.5 and 8... amusingly had they gone with a new name as a new project i'd peg towards the higher end of that range, because I wouldn't hold it up against the back catalog.

If you are really into black metal you'd find out that Virstele Pamantului is a comercial album; it sounds too melodic and it's easy to understand it ( 7.9 says it all ) ... real black metal is Moonsorrow, Angantyr, Manegarm and other good bands...btw all the albums from negura are masterpieces, less the last one due to the things happened in the band in 2009 and especially the split of the main song writers (hupogrammus & sol faur ) that made themselves a new band... called Dordeduh
So anibx, if you rated this album a 9 or 10, excuse me then : you don't know what black metal quality is. (period)

Accessibility is a far cry from being 'commercial'. you're a Dimmu fan apparently*. THAT is commercial. a marketing machine spewing forth t-shirts and cheesy upside-down crucifixes at shows (for only $20 each!)... I'd be shocked if VP sold a fraction of Abracadabra or whatever. retention of the original band name was a low move, and one which scores them a little bit of name recognition, but it's not going to catapult them into international success. if anything the move also has the drawback in that most of the people aware of the band are aso aware of the split, and thus think less of this project as a result.

finally, "all abums from negura are masterpieces" - hardly. OM was fucking brilliant, n'Crugu and Inarborat Kosmos are awesome, but the prior works are just decent. at best. which is part of the reason they re-built Maiastru Stefnic from the ground up as Maiestrit.




* someone who rates virtually the entire Dimmu Borgir discography a 9+ is lecturing others on black metal quality?

Written by Irinel on 08.04.2011 at 16:54

TROLOLOLOLOL

I know what you're doing and I don't like it.

Man, you've got a way with words. Excellent vocabulary! I for one enjoyed this album thoroughly, but it does seem slightly pale in comparison to OM. I haven't really dug deep into their discography, but probably will do at some point.
Excellent review.

Written by [user id=109200] on 02.05.2011 at 23:00

Man, you've got a way with words. Excellent vocabulary! I for one enjoyed this album thoroughly, but it does seem slightly pale in comparison to OM. I haven't really dug deep into their discography, but probably will do at some point.
Excellent review.

Thanks for the nice words man . I completely agree this record pales in comparison to Om but it's still worth picking-up . Thanks for reading it .

You know a lot of Romanian geography I should give this band a chance, especially now that I've got not one, but TWO apparently great atmospheric black metal bands (Negura and Dordeduh) right on my doorstep.

They are both great, though Dordeduh still have a long way to climb before reaching Negura's level.

P.S: I just love dark, misty places