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NEMOROUS “What Remains When Hope Has Fallen”
NEMOROUS “What Remains When Hope Has Fallen”
By Octopi Mills
I have read that this album is or was compared to WOOD TEMPLE, which I have heard in the past somewhere. Opening with "The Wyrm of the World's End", the album begins on a sensitive, melancholic start. The music shifts to a more usual underground black metal approach of the atmospheric kind. Songs stretch out long for the camping trip in a freezing landscape, windswept and wild. The second track evokes that flying through a snowstorm sort of feel; the guitars being done in a melodic and atmospheric manner that is commendable.
"Sky Avalanche" has a good old power metal feel, the feeling of dysthymia always present in the album somewhere. Vocals are of the usual black metal monster variety, but not sounding like Jim Henson muppets as some do. The album cover seems to fit the music and was made to be released in a vinyl format in a white color someday. Song structures are realized early on… the combination of weeping guitars layered with cleaner melodies and the melodic darker metal guitars coming to play. The layering is done in such a way that the distorted guitars don't sound harsh and are more sanded down to accommodate a certain wintry, dreary mood with any epic majesty coming from the season's usual beauty and charm. They have captured the mood very well on this album and the production values were quite fitting for the overall play of this record. I must pass them on as not bad in the slightest.
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