Stigma Mortuorum - Argentum

Description: Artist: Argentum / Genre: Hard Rock & Metal / Release Year: 2001

Newest Review: ... light melodic black metal album with annoying delusions of orchestral grandeur similar to Dimmu Borgir thanks to new keyboard ... more

... player Henry Graves. This isn't bad metal, and I'd rather listen to it than anything contemporary by Dimmu Borgir, but it lacks the inspired and slightly cheesy Latin individuality of 'Ad Inferitum Funebrarum,' replacing it with even cheesier, domineering symphonic keyboards and uninspired melodic death metal riffs. Khabee's vocals are even burpier and a little dafter sounding than on the debut where they integrated perfectly, and the cleaner production sound robs the lead guitars of the eeriness and emotion the...more

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Stigma Mortuorum - Argentum: There Is No More Life (346 words)
by - written on 27/01/08 (Very useful, 29 readings)
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What happened to my favourite Mexican atmospheric-drone-doom-black metal band? Argentum's debut release back in 1996 was a cracker of an album, gloomy and sinister but melodic and uplifting at the same time, but the long-awaited 2001 follow-up seems to have abandoned all trace of what made their previous sound so compelling. Most probably the fault of line-up changes that saw guitarist Chebb Maelstrom leave among others, Argentum's second - and to date, final - album is merely another light melodic black metal album with annoying delusions of orchestral grandeur similar to Dimmu Borgir thanks to new keyboard player Henry Graves. This isn't bad metal, and I'd ... Read the complete review

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