I can't really tell them apart after just two listens, but I'll take your word that this is the slightly better one.

Written by RaduP on 21.04.2020 at 01:25

I can't really tell them apart after just two listens, but I'll take your word that this is the slightly better one.

It's by a pretty slim margin. Overall I'm kinda underwhelmed by both albums and ready for the band to do something new from here. Maybe a return to the Triumvirat sound, with some present day updates. Or something more symphonic, like that EP they did as a tribute to the Czech composer

Written by Auntie Sahar on 21.04.2020 at 01:39

Written by RaduP on 21.04.2020 at 01:25

I can't really tell them apart after just two listens, but I'll take your word that this is the slightly better one.

It's by a pretty slim margin. Overall I'm kinda underwhelmed by both albums and ready for the band to do something new from here. Maybe a return to the Triumvirat sound, with some present day updates. Or something more symphonic, like that EP they did as a tribute to the Czech composer

Regardless of what it is for the follow-up, we already got more than our money's worth of the current sound. This wouldve been so much cooler if these were indeed more yin yang.

I also prefer this to Moksha but I like them both, probably more than you do, I really enjoy the spirituality they exude. They both feel like the BaN record last year to me, different to what people expected but not wildly new or experimental in any way.

I completely agree with the sentence "a part of me still doesn't quite understand why Cult Of Fire didn't simply release the tracks from both as a single, 70 minute album". I also don't see any point in having two different albums that are not so different at all.

Probably for different cover art, maybe to sell a few more albums. It's like another band, why release an album in your native tongue and then also release a different English version? Why not do a double disc at least with both the English and second language? My guess is the same, man, money. I mean, they gotta feed the monkey, man... sir.

Written by nikarg on 21.04.2020 at 11:25

They both feel like the BaN record last year to me, different to what people expected but not wildly new or experimental in any way

I wouldn't really make that comparison, personally, as the BAN album was a much more radical departure from a previously established sound. I don't think that many people were really expecting these two Cult Of Fire albums to be any serious departure away from their Indian/Hindu black metal sound

I like both albums, this one is like an upbeat-type-Triumvirat (less gloomy?). Sort of.
Certainly not the WOW factor मृत्यु का तापसी अनुध्यान had, but enjoyable.
It would be nice if they explored a bit more the happy post-rock vibes the LSD EP had. That would be an interesting direction.

Written by Vombatus on 21.04.2020 at 18:55

I like both albums, this one is like an upbeat-type-Triumvirat (less gloomy?). Sort of.
Certainly not the WOW factor मृत्यु का तापसी अनुध्यान had, but enjoyable.

Just finished listening to "Moksha" and didn't found close to "मृत्यु". That was one hell of a record.

Let's see how Nirvana rolls me in..

Written by RaduP on 21.04.2020 at 01:25

I can't really tell them apart after just two listens, but I'll take your word that this is the slightly better one.

I've listened to each once and this one impressed me more on first listen. But both seemed surprisingly conventional meloblack considering what they've one in the past

Written by musclassia on 21.04.2020 at 21:38

I've listened to each once and this one impressed me more on first listen. But both seemed surprisingly conventional meloblack considering what they've one in the past

Conventional meloblack isn't bad by any means. But I never hoped to think of Cult Of Fire as a conventional band.

Written by Vombatus on 21.04.2020 at 18:55

It would be nice if they explored a bit more the happy post-rock vibes the LSD EP had

I hadn't even thought of that, that would indeed be very cool

Written by RaduP on 21.04.2020 at 21:44

Written by musclassia on 21.04.2020 at 21:38

I've listened to each once and this one impressed me more on first listen. But both seemed surprisingly conventional meloblack considering what they've one in the past

Conventional meloblack isn't bad by any means. But I never hoped to think of Cult Of Fire as a conventional band.

Oh yeah I like meloblack, just not the band I expected it from

Great review.

This is lot groovier, diverse and closer to "मृत्यु" than "Moksha" did for me. Also found lot of resemblance of "Gruesome Dance Of Death" vibes in "Buddha 4" and "Buddha 2" sounds akin to Filosofem.

You got one of the toughest contenders in black metal category.

Written by Cynic Metalhead on 21.04.2020 at 23:22

You got one of the toughest contenders in black metal category.

Eh.... maybe. Assuming this did get into the MSA for black metal next year, I can't say I'd see myself voting for it. For 2020 black metal Zalmoxis, Yaldabaoth, and Oranssi Pazuzu have been a lot more impressive than this.

Having read so many rave reviews about Cult of Fire's "Mrityu", Moksha and Nirvana were slightly underwhelming. Maybe a few more mantra chants like Buddha 1 would have done the trick.