Necromantia - The Sound Of Lucifer Storming Heaven - review
Necromantia - The Sound Of Lucifer Storming Heaven - review
Tracklist
01. The Sound Of Lucifer Storming Heaven02. Order Of The Black Sphinx
03. For The Elder Magi - I-Eibon The Necromancer
04. Architecture Of Exquisite Madness
05. Knights Of The Black And White Eagle
06. The Invisible Empire
07. Hellseher
08. Les Litanies De Satan - Act II-From Hell
A review by
Jeff January 30, 2008
With "The Sound Of Lucifer Storming Heaven", you'll be in front of some really good ambiances. The album is dark and all the tracks are real deep songs of Black Metal. In general we have also some battlefield sounds on the songs and it's really good. The voice of the singer is really tortured and sometime I even though that someone was skinning a pig or something like that. "The Sound Of Lucifer Storming Heaven" is violent and extremely aggressive, don't believe that you'll be in front of some kind of Cradle Of Filth, this is a real violent Black Metal but despite its average production the songs are complex and deep in the end. Also, we have cellos on some tracks, don't believe that it's a new kind of Symphonic Black Metaln, this is just a matter of ambiances one more time and of course the cello is the perfect instrument to create a dark and sad atmosphere.
"The Sound Of Lucifer Storming Heaven" suffers of a really average production but on a side, it's not really disturbing because it sounds like the old Black Metal productions and it can be ok if you like such kind of albums. The two guys of Necromantia are good musicians and since that both are bassist, you'll find some good bass soli here. This is solid and I don't have anything to add, the "war" Black Metal of Necromentia is original.
"The Sound Of Lucifer Storming Heaven" is a good surprise. As I said at the beginning of this review, this is a good mix of accessible Black Metal (not because it's easy but just because it's well done and with good melodies) and some good brutal Black. I highly recommend to you this release be sure that you'll not be disappointed. Necromantia is a good band and let's hope that they will follow this way. They knew how to be original this time, let's believe that they will be able to confirm all these good words in the future.
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 8 |
| Songwriting: | 8 |
| Originality: | 8 |
| Production: | 6 |
Written by Jeff | January 30, 2008
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This album isn't that great; I received the promo too. It's lacking something....like a fucking guitar lol. I'd give it a 5 or 6.
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Posts: 1504 Written by Dangerboner on 31.01.2008 at 04:39 Apparently they've been considering guitars secondary for almost 20 years... Thanks for the review Jeff. I really liked the song they had in the 2006 MS compilation (originally on their 2000 album; upon reading this page I couldn't remember whether there were guitars in that or not) and hopefully tomorrow I'll check the pair of tracks from this album on their myspace. Sorry hehe, when I was editing the album info, I felt I had to remove the detail of the website from which you can order this CD. How about posting it again in a comment? edit - checked the new stuff on their myspace, definitely not as impressive as the older song...
---- death ? thrash ? death/doom/prog ? Hail Zoldon! he's not the kind you have to [url=../bands/album.php?album_id=28982]wind up[/url] on Sundays
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I checked this band because I thought the idea of using only basses, no guitar, was interesting. However, I don't like the result. Also, "Scarlet Evil witching Black" is much better than this album because this album has a few good parts but is overall quite boring.
---- They shake your hand and they smile and they buy you a drink They say we'll be your friends we'll stick with you till the end But everybody's only looking out for themselves And you say who can you trust I'll tell you nobody
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