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VARATHRON - His Majesty At The Swamp
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release date:
January 2001
format: CD, MC, Picture-LP- limited to 300 copies
catalogue number: (Moon CD 024, Moon MC 034, Moon P-LP
024)
playing time: 46m:39s
file under: Black Metal
availability: P-LP sold out, CD available
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Legendary
VARATHRON with their Cult debut album, originally released in
1993 - a real classic together with the first albums from
SAMAEL, NECROMANTIA, ROTTING CHRIST and MAYHEM! Exceptional,
majestic Black Metal with the unique "greek" sound
featuring members of other cult bands - NECROMANTIA, ROTTING
CHRIST, AGATUS and ZEMIAL. Contains one unreleased song
"The Grim Palace" and completely new lay-out.
track list:
1.
His Majesty At The Swamp
2. Son of the Moon (Act II)
3. Unholy Funeral MP3
4. Lustful Father
5. Nightly Kingdoms
6. Flowers of My Youth
7. The River of My Souls
8. The Tressrising of Nyarlathothep (Act I)
9. The Grim Palace (bonus track)
reviews:
DARK LEGIONS:
This is drawn out and intricate black metal, with attention to the slower speeds and more emphasis on phrasing beyond the three-chords-falling approach of most current black metal acts. Most of its riffs are pieces of thematic monsters which unencumber themselves from their origins to extend to their full length and then resolve into slow, hypnotic, fading patterns of allusion to what once was. Into this mystical space of ambiguity arises the logic of patterns.
Conventional rhythm is altered subtly to work through intricate riffs, with attention paid to the orchestral dynamics of voice and rhythm, allowing an easy walking beat to pervade an otherwise operatic complexity. The resulting sound is dark, low, and abstracted, with a more reserved approach than fast attack but laden with more perspective in the flowering of its variations. Easy pacing on the drums including techno styled simple counterpoint percussion keeps pace with this developing style, as do keyboards mixed into simple fragments of larger guitar odysseanism.
Dark hoarse shadows of vocals paint obscurity on the relative rigidity of structure. A Celtic Frost influence appears in many songs, especially the simpler ones, but where that band lend the most is in the dark pacing and physical motion grooves of this music, which creates an ethereal presence in its sweeping but grounded work which remains disparate enough in melody to retain its enigmatic, cryptic winding ascent to the resolution of its themes in abstract freedom.
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