Old Times - Azuth

Description: Artist: Azuth / Genre: Hard Rock & Metal / Release Year: 2007

Newest Review: ... mixture of mountain/victory black metal and philosophical black metal, two terms I find it helpful to apply to Windir and ... more

... Burzum respectively, but that are, if anything, even dumber than the more official stance. Starting off rather ambient and minimal and featuring a nicely shoddy sample of a battle complete with bugle, galloping horses, the clash of steel against steel and bad acting, the first real "music" begins half-way through the title track as a chiming bell, distorted vocals, tribal drums and roaring guitar fuzz attempt to lead us nostalgically through past worlds, and even though it doesn't really work it's a very pretty ...more

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Old Times - Azuth: Bloodied Bodies Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink (618 words)
by - written on 04/02/08 (Very useful, 50 readings)
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This is the first, privately funded release from Ukrainian black metal musician Saurus, who follows in the footsteps of many successful one-man-bands in the field that run the risk of ending up as a completely impenetrable, self-indulgent disaster due to the lack of exterior input, or a work of inspired genius that would only have been lessened by involving other players, most notably Burzum, Windir and the later works of Bathory. But of course, there are some like this that are merely pretty good, but have such an incredible atmosphere that I hold them in a similar regard, the type of atmosphere that can only be achieved through a severely low budget. Azuth ... Read the complete review