BORGNE
'Royaume
des Ombres'
(Sepulchral
Productions)
According
to Metal Archives Borgne's sole recording member, Bornyhake,
also plays drums for Kawir, under yet another nom de
guerre, Ormenos. With that little trivia in mind one can but
wonder what led him chose of using programmed drums when composing
and recording for Borgne. Probably the core of the problem
with this band's music, which frankly is of the hit and miss variety,
stems from the demanding, and most likely impossible, task he had set
for himself of mixing way too many styles into a coherent and really
impressive sounding package. Fuzzy black metal guitars and Burzum-ish
screeches and lots (I mean LOTS) of 'symphonic bm' keyboards,
accompanied by the already mentioned programmed drums in an attempt
of achieving genuine atmosphere of angst and fury? Agreeably, some
parts on here are interesting enough and nicely executed but just as
often the songs are just 'there', thus not really rewarding and I
doubt I'd be reaching to 'Royaume...' for a listen any time soon, if
ever. This is not worthlessly bad per se, but I've had my fix of
bands sounding similar to Borgne's musical intentions already and the
appeal was limited even the first time around. [6,5]
(Vladimir Petrov)
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