Dreams Like Deserts - Aura Noir

Description: Artist - Aura Noir / Genre: Hard Rock & Metal / Release Date: 1995 / Track Listings: 1.The Rape / 2.Forlorn Blessing to ... more

Dreams Like Deserts - Aura Noir ... the Dreamking / 3.Dreams Like Deserts / 4.Angel Ripper / 5.Snake / 6.Mirage

Newest Review: ... fuzzy and exceptionally raw quality that's required when creating music of this nature, and although the drums can hardly be ... more

... heard and the guitars are stuck permanently at the warbling, treble end of the scale, the scene couldn't be better set for these anthems of blasphemy, general unpleasantness and philosophical musings. This isn't a classic release by any means, coming far too late to be considered in the same light as the albums that clearly inspired it, but the blending of thrash and black metal - here tilted more towards the latter - makes for a more palatable listening experience than something like Mayhem, as the songs can be easil...more

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Dreams Like Deserts - Aura Noir: Feed on the Sluts That Spat Upon Me (385 words)
by - written on 01/02/08 (Very useful, 18 readings)
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This five-track E.P. was the first official release from Aura Noir, yet another Norwegian black metal band, but one that interestingly seemed intent on "keeping it real" (to use the black metal terminology, of course) by retaining the thrash metal influence that had begun with the likes of Bathory, before the bands started to follow a different path in the early nineties. As a fairly low budget release on Hot Records (some more authentic black metal lingo there), the E.P. has the fuzzy and exceptionally raw quality that's required when creating music of this nature, and although the drums can hardly be heard and the guitars are stuck permanently at the ... Read the complete review