Summoning
Minas Morgul
[Napalm]
”Minas Morgul” was really Austrian SUMMONING’s masterpiece, the album that they
won’t top ever again (they think so themselves, so…).
It was their second one and it took them quite far from the screamy black
darkness of the first album, into epic gothic medieval keyboards and melodies
weaving a texture of 70-minutes lasting journey deep into the darkest caverns
and brightest meadows of Tolkien’s Middle-Earth.
”Minas Morgul” wasn’t only about Hollywood fantasy cheesiness but it was about
some of the true essence of mythicality, it was filled with darkness, longing
and atmospheres from beyond. It’s not something that could pose as experimental,
even with it’s folk and gothic influences, it stays within the realm of black
metal but creates it’s own fortress – the ambient dreaminess of BURZUM reaches a
new soundtrack-like quality here.
Vocals really scream hazardous terror here, perfect production emphasizing their
inhumanness, chainsaw guitars have never sounded so beautifully melancholic and
the drum machine and synths are both painful in their thinness of sound and the
efficiency in which they stab the knives of anti-materialism deep into the heart
of the listener.
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