Average Rating: 3.58 Rating Variance: 1.28 Objectivity Score: 76% (Well Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name5.0 classicMortiis Crypt of the WizardPerunwit W Kręgu DębówI discovered this album a little over twenty years ago and it still haunts me. At first glance it's not much - pre-Dungeon synth in a way, or what was simply called "atmospheric" at the time, sometimes very soaring, sometimes very epic with percussion and war cries. And also, something original it seems to me, entirely instrumental tracks, minimalist and melancholic, with the guitar added with chorus and reverb. Those to tell the truth are my favorites, even if I really like "Arkona" or "Za Pami?? Dawnych Dni". Perunwit instills, voluntarily or not, by its distant, muffled, lo-fi, amateur sound, a melancholic, nostalgic, lonely atmosphere, like the soundtrack of a wandering in the forest and the countryside, amidst the remains of an immemorial past. I really like the black and white photos that accompany the CD and in general the photos of the Polish BM scene of that time. One has the impression to see the photos of a forgotten people, far away, still barbaric, tribal, and without any doubt the leader of Perunwit is one of their high priests.4.0 excellentMortiis Keiser Av En Dimensjon Ukjent2.5 averageCongrès du Monde Un dimanche d'exécutionsThe man's voice is not very good. He seems to speak in French. The lyrics probably deal with violence, especially political, since the text that accompanies the release, on Bandcamp, evokes: "men and women with their backs to the wall, then shot, in a black and white world where it seems to be always cold". Curiously, we don't find many ambient or industrial records, evoking the second world war, which place themselves on the side of the victims and the total rejection of the war. TG probably saw things this way and so did the first industrial bands, but since the wave of neofolk, martial industrial... there is essentially an aestheticization, under the cover of a more or less hypocritical denunciation, of the war, of the authoritarian regimes, of the soldier as a hero, and so on. Mortiis Født til å Herske
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