Jumalhämärä - Resignaatio - review
Jumalhämärä - Resignaatio - review
Tracklist
01. Ecstasy In Blood - A Ballad02. Storm Is Coming
03. Haul
04. 596
05. Resignaatio
06. Of Enlightenment And Righteousness Pt II
A review by
Troy Killjoy September 05, 2010
Finland
Ahdistuksen Aihio Productions
Jumalhämärä is an extremely... well, extreme black metal band from Finland. So extreme they don't have so much as an official MySpace page. So extreme that, in their 14 years of headbanging, they have released only one full-length studio album. In case you were wondering, this is it.
After treading the path of a true underground black metal outfit (releasing demo tapes, a live album and some mini-CDs), Jumalhämärä are ready to take a stab at the genre's heavyweights, perhaps first getting a head start by overtaking countrymates Horna and Sargeist.
The album begins with an incredibly hazy guitar intro, then unleashes a no-frills, by-the-numbers black metal assault before calming down about halfway through "A Ballad", carrying the listener off into apocalyptic dreamlike sequences for essentially the remainder of the album. This is where the band really shines as a unit - when they slow things down, access their melodic side, and give in to their intrinsic jazzy progression. While not overly experimental (and therefore, not overly pretentious), there are definitely elements of surrealism, thanks to some wonderfully produced keyboard effects and somber vocal passages.
Fortunately Resignaatio is drenched in this imaginative nature, swaying from utter barbaric minimalism to poignant mollification, similar in a way to most Deathspell Omega works. The differing drum techniques (despite routine blastbeat abuse), utilization of droning choirs, and odd timing signatures makes Resignaatio a welcome addition to the Finnish black metal family. Undoubtedly unappealing to die-hard tr00 crusaders, Jumalhämärä still have what it takes to attract most black metal fans, possibly even acquiring fans of various extreme atmospheric and melodic genres in the process.
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 8 |
| Songwriting: | 8 |
| Originality: | 8 |
| Production: | 8 |
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Really? Woah. I once reviewed one of their EP's and absolutely hated it. I can't wait to hear this one, if it really is an '8' then props to them for growing so much.
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Account deleted Written by Lucas on 05.09.2010 at 12:05 I actually really liked that EP  at least I think it was that one. Very strange and unusual black metal.
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Posts: 13427 Written by [user id=4365] on 05.09.2010 at 12:07 Heh, really? I heard a lot of unusual ideas in that one, but in the end it turned out such a mess that I'd rather listen to .... ew ... Dark Funeral than that EP.
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This sounds like something I would love, based on the description given in this very well written review of course 
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The description of this youtube video sounds familiar =P
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Posts: 21306 Written by Karlabos on 05.05.2014 at 02:19 I feel like I've seen those exact words somewhere before...
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