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| 4.0 excellent | Gary STAFF | April 12th 23 |
I've forgotten about this record for a long time, and I am truly shocked about how good it is. It's a very melancholic ad a rather slow black metal / record ambient record, where sad melancholies and moody atmospheres reign. Interestingly, this is not an independent release since it was made together with the Swiss ambient/black metal band, Nychts. So, collaboration album or not: this is probably the best music ever released under the 'Nargaroth' moniker.
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| 3.0 good | relativeworld | May 2nd 11 |
Nargaroth's latest release is an attemp to create a mysteriously dark sonic atmosphere, incorporating sounds of nature, mideveal violon and cello composition (first and forth track), fuzzy vibe of Burzum's Filosofem(second track), dark ambient, oceanic soundcapes (third track) which leads to a transitional 2-minute interelude, a shortened version of the opning track, leading to one of the longest songs on this album ( a completely electronic-laden filler that is meaninglessly unreasonable ) I, myself, try to ignore the previous song because right after that comes 2 of the most emotional black metal tunes ever made , aesthetically consistent and heart-breakingly depressive...the closing track in my opinion is repeating the same mistake as the one made in aforesaid electronic-driven track.rBrushing two mentioned tracks aside, It's an amazing listen with its ups and downs and worthwhile because of its unexampled moments of purity.
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| 2.5 average | zaruyache | April 6th 11 |
An hour-long LP of which half the music is either made up of needless ambient or
instrumental fillers. With only twenty seven minutes of actual heavy metal spread across
three tracks we can only wonder as to why this LP runs almost an hour in total. The black
metal, while sparse, is slow, melodic and reminiscent of Burzum--while not the most
interesting musically the tracks are still a rather enjoyable listen. In the end this album
lives by its melody-driven black metal sections but stalls and dies by the utter uselessness
of many of the included ambient tracks. If anything, "Spectral Visions of Mental Warfare"
is worth listening to for the three tracks that contain actual instrumentation, with maybe
one or two of the ambient tracks being interesting enough to not put you to sleep or turn
you off from the record completely. God knows why this ended up being more than forty
minutes in length, though.
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| 3.0 good | esav | January 18th 16 |
| 2.5 average | mEyck97 | December 6th 15 |
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