Label: Der Schwarze Tod – tod30, COD Music and Distro – COD7 Format: CD, Album Country: Russia Released: 27 Oct 2016 Style: Black Metal
The flame of discord devours human destiny. Scythe of the civil war satisfies death hunger, not skipping a single family. The year 1917 had plunged Russia in bloodshed and destruction for a long time and it led to the collapse of the age-old way of life, traditions and practices.
In the debut album, the group Gherzen is not trying to find who was right and who is wrong. The tragedy of the common man and the entire nation together with him and is at the forefront here. Echoes of those fierce days resound in monumental atmospheric Black Metal inspired by the classic works of Burzum and Drudkh.
Label: Lupus Lounge – WOLF 65LU Format: CD, Album + CD + DVD-V + Dlx, Ltd, Art Country: Germany Released: 30 Sep 2016 Style: Black Metal, Folk Metal, Avantgarde
Negura Bunget is an award-winning Transilvanian black metal band that twists the genre sideways, presenting an atmospheric sound that incorporates both progressive underground metal and traditional Romanian music.
Negura Bunget’s new album, “ZI” (English for ‘Day’ or ‘Say’) is the second part of the group’s ambitious “Transilvanian Trilogy”, released on the heels of 2015’s celebrated album, “TAU” (English for ‘Your’ or ‘Thy’), a record accurately hailed as “earthshaking” as it focused on unique native, natural landscapes and the mystique, legends, lore and meanings behind them.
In creating its most luminescent recording to date, Negura Bunget has further immersed itself in the traditions and practices of local Transilvanian inhabitants, exploring their connection with nature, and the way this relationship has shaped spiritual horizons. Within this framework, “ZI” closely examines the core of the most important traditions and rituals connected with the well-being of this community. Life events such as funeral ceremonies, soil tillage, and human growth and evolution (i.e. youth to teen to man to warrior, through to outcast) are spotlighted, in what is undoubtedly some of the most heady, thinking-man’s metal produced in recent memory. Musically, “ZI” builds upon the hallmarks of Negura Bunget’s impressive catalog; the juxtaposition and interweaving of grim black metal elements, ambient soundscapes and acoustic counterparts based on native Romanian folk music, giving life to panoramic atmospheres, intensity and power unequaled in the band’s rich discography.
An impressive musical statement and crucial bridge between root-bearing beginning and impending finale of the trilogy (scheduled to be released in early 2018), “ZI” is a mystical, tension-building recording that mirrors the size and scope of the deep forest fog for which the band is named.
Label: Lupus Lounge – WOLF 065 LP Format: LP, Album Country: Germany Released: 30 Sep 2016 Style: Black Metal, Folk Metal, Avantgarde
Negura Bunget is an award-winning Transilvanian black metal band that twists the genre sideways, presenting an atmospheric sound that incorporates both progressive underground metal and traditional Romanian music.
Negura Bunget’s new album, “ZI” (English for ‘Day’ or ‘Say’) is the second part of the group’s ambitious “Transilvanian Trilogy”, released on the heels of 2015’s celebrated album, “TAU” (English for ‘Your’ or ‘Thy’), a record accurately hailed as “earthshaking” as it focused on unique native, natural landscapes and the mystique, legends, lore and meanings behind them.
In creating its most luminescent recording to date, Negura Bunget has further immersed itself in the traditions and practices of local Transilvanian inhabitants, exploring their connection with nature, and the way this relationship has shaped spiritual horizons. Within this framework, “ZI” closely examines the core of the most important traditions and rituals connected with the well-being of this community. Life events such as funeral ceremonies, soil tillage, and human growth and evolution (i.e. youth to teen to man to warrior, through to outcast) are spotlighted, in what is undoubtedly some of the most heady, thinking-man’s metal produced in recent memory. Musically, “ZI” builds upon the hallmarks of Negura Bunget’s impressive catalog; the juxtaposition and interweaving of grim black metal elements, ambient soundscapes and acoustic counterparts based on native Romanian folk music, giving life to panoramic atmospheres, intensity and power unequaled in the band’s rich discography.
An impressive musical statement and crucial bridge between root-bearing beginning and impending finale of the trilogy (scheduled to be released in early 2018), “ZI” is a mystical, tension-building recording that mirrors the size and scope of the deep forest fog for which the band is named.
