NEGURA BUNGET Tau LP Romanian avant-garde black metal enslaved sigh drudkh NEW

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NEGURA BUNGET Tau LP

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(Prophecy Productions)
*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***

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     Available on both digipack CD and gatefold vinyl.
     Romanian avant-black metallers Negura Bunget have risen in prominence in recent years, with their previous albums finding continuing critical acclaim and their audience growing after a number of high-profile appearances in the US and on the European festival circuit. The stuff that they've released over the past decade and a half is some of the finest atmospheric black metal that I've heard coming from Europe, but it's been a good five years since we've had a new album from the band. Continuing with the more folk-influenced sound that founding member Negru explored on the previous album Vîrstele pamîntului, their latest Tau follows in a similar vein, but that's fine with me when the result is music that is this majestic.
     Tau sees the band returning with furious, synthdrenched anthems whose dark primal energy flows directly from their country's folkloric traditions and the lush Romanian forestlands that are so beautifully depicted on the album sleeve. As with their previous work, it's a skillfully assembled blast of progressive black metal, heavily draped in ghostly electronics and thick kosmische synths, but centered around the band's often long and winding black metal epics, the music slipping from powerful, doom-laden funerary marches and maudlin dirges buzzing with acoustic folk melodies into ferocious, blasting aggression and washes of spaced-out grandeur. They also continue to display a knack for incorporating strange electronic sounds and instrumentation into their songs that add to the often unearthly feel of their music, with eerie theremin tones buzzing through the sprawling opener "Nametenie", and hunting horns trumpeting across the twilight processional that opens "Curgerea Muntelui", eventually morphing into something jazzy and gorgeous as the songs blackens and slithers towards it's haunting climax. "La Hotarul Cu Cinci Culmi" is a haunting piece of lush, gloomy orchestral folkiness, dark and wondrous with the sounds of dulcimer and the lute-like Romanian cobza mixed in with the rest of the band, and other songs boast huge, sinister riffs, the album getting quite heavy with the likes of "Tarîm Vîlhovnicesc" with its furious blasting and contorted riffing that trades off against those soaring vocal harmonies. Some additional scathing vocals are contributed by Sakis of Rotting Christ / Thou Art Lord for some of the more violent black metal songs, and there are killer psychedelic Hammond organ sounds and bouts of energetic hand drumming and rustic percussion, which can often help sweep these songs into a kind of complex and epic blackened prog. That rustic vibe is especially apparent with the frenzied hoedown that kicks off "Împodobeala Timpului", which begins with what sounds like a traditional Transylvanian folk dance furiously played over rumbling metallic drumming, before the song veers into speedy, blackened metal that features Aura Noir's Rune Eriksen unleashing a searing guitar solo. It's proggy and folky and heavy as hell all at the same time, and the way that Negura Bunget blend all of these sounds and instruments together can be somewhat reminiscent of both Sigh and Enslaved, but this has a much more somber, solemn tone, more rooted in the traditional folk forms that the band draws from. Great stuff, and an impressive return from these Romanian black metallers.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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