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Rating: Hello to all DeBaserians! I am about to write my first review.
The album I’m about to review is the latest from the Black Metal Band Summoning.
After five years since their last album "Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame". The album opens with "Bauglir", a simple intro, but one that evokes, with its drums and flute and the choirs towards the end, Tolkien-esque landscapes, so dear to Summoning, and as an intro, it is promising. And now comes the first Masterpiece of the album. "Cross The Screaming Tide" is also very evocative, with a sharp initial guitar riff, and then Silenius appears vocally, with a growl that is not predominant as it is in many Black Metal bands. The drums go at "marching pace" and the song transports us to a fantastic world. Then another sharp riff disrupts the previously uninterrupted rhythm, and yet another follows, with Silenius giving a really good vocal performance, and the atmosphere created by the two is beautiful.
Next is "Mirdautas Vras", and the drum intro creates a battle-like atmosphere, and Silenius on vocals gives yet another great vocal performance, a really beautiful song with an atmosphere that becomes increasingly epic. Once "Mirdautas Vras" is finished, an almost icy riff opens "Might And Glory", also accompanied by a keyboard. Another splendid track, and Summoning once again proves their ability to create fear-inducing fantasy atmospheres!
"Beleriand" opens with intermittent drums (sorry, but I don’t know the technical jargon very well :D). This song is also very atmospheric, with yet another great vocal performance by Silenius. We then move on to "Northward", which starts with a slow drumbeat, a very sharp guitar riff, and once again Silenius delivers an excellent growl. However, honestly, this song excites me less than the others, even though it too is very evocative. The same goes for "Menegroth", but they both remain highly valid songs. Thus comes the last song, for me the Masterpiece of the CD alongside "Across The Screaming Tide". I’m talking about "Land Of Dead", an almost moving song, starting with a beautiful piano, which is then joined by a flute and a measured drum, and once again, with a vocal performance this time above others, by Silenius. A very sweet flute accompanies almost the entire song, along with consistently excellent measured drums. Thus concludes the last (Master)piece by Summoning.
Conclusions: in my opinion the absolute Masterpiece by Summoning, an exciting, evocative, and atmospheric album. If you like the band or the genre, you must have this CD!
I hope I was comprehensive enough in writing my first review here, until the next review!
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Across the Streaming Tide (10:20)
In autumn when wind and the sea
Rejoice to live and laught to be
And scarce the blast the curbs and the tree
And bids before it quail and flee
In winter when years when the years burn low
As fire wherein no firebrands glow
And winds disvel as they blow
The stormy wings of snow
''[Refrain]''
The hearts of western elves burn bright
With joy that mocks the spring
To hear all heaven's keen clarions ring
Music that bids the sprit sing
And wind by night in northern lands
Arose, and lord it cried
And drove the ships from ancient strands
Across the streaming tide
03 Mirdautas Vras (08:13)
''[Written in black language of Mordor]''
Brus-kuluz taurzur bûrzu tiil-ob
Hush-ob dhurum agh ufum dhurum
Tor Vautu brus-troguz
Urgai-u gukh dûmp agh tiimor
Talaan-u rûk-ir tor urûk
Nauru-ir agh kragoru nûrsu grishûrz
Nork-ulu furtun agh goth
Mordor-ob bot-tuk
Ghaash agh akûl - Nazgûl skoiz
Mirdautas vras!
Karn ghaamp agh nût
Shaut Manwe quiinubat gukh
05 Beleriand (09:27)
To north, to north there lay the land of dread
Dungorthin, where all ways were dead
In hills, in hills of shadow bleak and cold
Beyond was deadly nighshades hold
To south, to south the wide earth unexplored
To west, to west the ancient ocean roared
To east, to east in peaks of blue were piled
The mountains of the outer world.
''[Refrain]''
Unsailed and shoreless, wide and wild
To east in peaks of blue were piled
In silence folded, mist enfurled
The mountains of the outer world
Bejond the tangled, woodland shade
Thorn and thicket grove and glade
Whose brooding boughs with magic hung
Were ancient when the world was young
07 Menegroth (08:12)
A king there was in days of the old
Ere men yet walked upon the mould
His power was reared in caverns shade
His hand was over glen and glade
His shields were shining as the moon
His lances keen of steel were hewn
Of silver grey his crown was wrought
The starlight in his banners caught
''[Refrain]''
And silver thrilled his trumpets long
Beneath the stars in challenge strong
Enchantment did his realm enfold
Where might and glory wealth untold
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