My Infinite Kingdoms
Ecstasies over Dreaming Lady
[No Colours]
[No Colours]
I finally managed to track this album down (thanks Baal!) as to complete
my No Colours Records discography (I'm still missing the compilation
album though...help?) and thus traded it more for collective purposes
than actual musical ones. I of course (as usual) was wrong in thinking
that, since this is a great (simply great) album.
My Infinite Kingdoms are a Polish band, but much like the other band they are affiliated with (Sacrilegium, Hefeystos, North.well.not North) they sound quite different than the traditional Polish sound. Rather, they are heavy in the synth department, use heavily screamed vocals, and use a less raw sounding atmosphere. I really enjoy the style they produce here, since it's not only ambient in a successful way, but also wonderfully epic. Most new fans of black metal will listen to this album and say "ugh, that's fucking terrible and cheap sounding", but most new fans of black metal don't enjoy my reviews now, do they?
Anyway, the music is simple, with basic drumming and guitars (that branch off into simple, yet tasteful solos at time), and is led all the way by synths that sound like they were stolen from a funeral parlor. Ambient, at times depressing, and all together interesting is what I would classify them as. At times even baroque in sound, they could be considered "cheap" I suppose, but I find them to be a successful addition to the music.
Vocals are in a very high-pitched scream style, and similarities can be given to Burzum I guess. They aren't very interesting, but still go with the music well enough to add some spice, and of course gives the already excellent sounding music a more desperate and painful sound. Altogether a fine album, filled with 45 minutes of top-quality, but of course raw black metal. I can now successfully say that there is not ONE release on No Colours records that has truly disappointed me. Impressive standards at least, and the label deserves some respect for producing real black metal albums, and in that respect, keeping underground black metal at least somewhat alive.
© 1997 brand
My Infinite Kingdoms are a Polish band, but much like the other band they are affiliated with (Sacrilegium, Hefeystos, North.well.not North) they sound quite different than the traditional Polish sound. Rather, they are heavy in the synth department, use heavily screamed vocals, and use a less raw sounding atmosphere. I really enjoy the style they produce here, since it's not only ambient in a successful way, but also wonderfully epic. Most new fans of black metal will listen to this album and say "ugh, that's fucking terrible and cheap sounding", but most new fans of black metal don't enjoy my reviews now, do they?
Anyway, the music is simple, with basic drumming and guitars (that branch off into simple, yet tasteful solos at time), and is led all the way by synths that sound like they were stolen from a funeral parlor. Ambient, at times depressing, and all together interesting is what I would classify them as. At times even baroque in sound, they could be considered "cheap" I suppose, but I find them to be a successful addition to the music.
Vocals are in a very high-pitched scream style, and similarities can be given to Burzum I guess. They aren't very interesting, but still go with the music well enough to add some spice, and of course gives the already excellent sounding music a more desperate and painful sound. Altogether a fine album, filled with 45 minutes of top-quality, but of course raw black metal. I can now successfully say that there is not ONE release on No Colours records that has truly disappointed me. Impressive standards at least, and the label deserves some respect for producing real black metal albums, and in that respect, keeping underground black metal at least somewhat alive.
© 1997 brand