Genre(s) - Black metal
Origin - Nordrhein-Westphalen, Germany
Year of release - 2004
Bitrate - 128 kbps
Size - 66.09 MB
You know, this really isn't an easy album to review. Starting point may be the sole membership of Alexander von Meilenwald, the drummer - and he is a fantastic drummer, believe you me - of the late and great Nagelfar. Now, Nagelfar are a band I got the hots for, and The Ruins of Beverast , I guess, is of the same complexity and the songwriting is unmistakenly reminiscent, though to me it seems like this "band" incorporates elements from between two bands from the same family tree: Graupel's production and some of Verdunkeln's approach towards atmosphere. Von Meilenwald doesn't call it "oppressive black metal" without a reason. It hits like a train and still instils a feeling of horror and alienation. Recommended tracks are Between Bronze Walls which is really beautiful and ever more so towards the end, and Summer Decapitation Ritual, packing a riff like only a Nagelfar member could have written it.
- Between bronze walls
- Skeleton coast
- Euphoria when the bombs fell
- God sent no sign
- The clockhand's groaning circles
- Procession of pawns
- Summer decapitation ritual
- Cellartunes
- Unlock the shrine
- Subterranean homicide lament
- The mine
- White abyss
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