Eulen - Mother Tree - review
Eulen - Mother Tree - review
Tracklist
01. A Cold New Day02. First Snow
03. Desolate House
04. This Old Hearth
05. Graveroom
06. Dunes
07. Clouds
08. Mother Tree
A review by
Doc G. February 04, 2012
For those of you who didn't tune into Clandestine Cuts #8, you know, back before you they went all mainstream with a full-length n' shit, Eulen is some dark stuff. Not really evil, just dark, cold sadness. It's a kind of black & doom hybrid, slow, mellow, and very melancholy. One track, "Desolate House" sees them break into some typical blast-beat driven black metal, but for the most part they stick to eerie sorrow, doomy slowness, and even a few post- elements find their way in with some subtlety. It's an interesting mix of delicate melodies and gritty, raw black metal riffing, everything just seems to fit right.
The production is kind of a killer on this one at times. It's got the right amount of rawness to it, that's for sure, and it does help build the hopeless atmosphere they are undoubtedly going for, but the pitfall is the sort of "up close" feel to the whole thing. That works well when laying down the melodies, but it makes the rhythm guitars just sound a little overwhelming, and not in a good way. If this album had, say, the same production values as something like Wolves In The Throne Room, this would an absolutely top-notch album. All things considered, hats should be tipped to these guys, it's obviously a DIY album, so it's unfair to complain to much about specificity of production values, as they did manage to record their sound appropriately with considerable success, even if it isn't perfect.
All nit-picking aside, Eulen have a solidly depressing album here, certainly worth a listen if you like feeling like crap (in a good way!)
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Has me mucho interested. will take a moment to check it out.
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Yaaay, finally some attention for these guys  awesome review
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Randomly picked this up awhile ago, and was greatly impressed. "This Old Hearth" was one of my favorites from the last year
---- Here at the edge of this world Here I gaze at a pantheon of oak, a citadel of stone If this grand panorama before me is what you call God... Then God is not dead
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The first few songs, the production was kinda pissing me off...but then later it didn't even matter. A 80 minute album, but didn't feel that way...such mesmerizing stuff.
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It's so wonderful to see bands in CC start to get full lenghts, reviews, attention and stuff
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