LUNAR
AURORA
'Hoagascht'
(Cold
Dimensions)
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| Lunar Aurora |
Following
its ancestor ‘Andacht’,
‘Hoagascht’
is a representative sample of Lunar
Aurora’s ambient black metal style.
Lunar Aurora
offers a much more atmospheric and less pure black album, in
comparison to its previous works. The band began timidly to
experiment with its sound in ‘Andacht’
and this new album is the turning point for the duet from Bavaria.
Instead of pure brutal black metal vocals, attacking riffs and
blistering, repetitive drums, ‘Hoagascht’
is totally overwhelmed by an eerie and sombre atmosphere,
‘transporting’ the listener to a dark, wet, cold, haunted and
full of haze forest of Germany. The artwork reveals this band’s
intention; however no one is prepared for the content of this album.
The new sound of Lunar Aurora
is much more minimalistic and ambient that in its previous albums,
which is further reinforced by the use of almost ‘chill out’
keyboards and melodic riffs in a slower tempo for most of the album.
Nevertheless, there are also some black metal moments mixed up with
the electronic sound, as the growling vocals in “Geisterwoid”and
the aggressive guitars in “Im Gartn”. ‘Hoagascht’
is for one more reason innovative: it
can “boast” that it is the first album in the black metal scene
that has lyrics in the Upper Bavarian dialect. The ninth full-length
album of the Bavarians can definitely be a sample of upper level
ambient black metal. [9]
(Dark Alice's nightingale)
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