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This debut album
from Lunaris is one of the very first releases on the new Earache subsidiary
Elitist Records which is run by Lee Barrett, the founder of Candlelight
Records. Elitist represents exactly the kind of fresh new thinking that
Earache is in need of right now since they have stepped down in quality during
the late 90's. The first signings of Elitist shows a lot of promise and even
though Lunaris is a new band the members of the band are no newcomers to the
metal scene. The band was formed in 1998 and features members from several
leading Norwegian metal bands. Lunaris plays black metal but this is far from
the typical Norwegian black metal band. Their music is extremely progressive
and technical with highly complex song structures and both clean and black
vocals. The clean vocals are handled with perfection by Øyvind Hægeland
of Spiral Architect while Balfori from Frost's side project 1349 takes care
of the black ones. This is a band of contrasts and by mixing the aggression
and extremity of black metal with the complexity of progressive music Lunaris
have found a very interesting niche for themselves to explore. Tempo changes
are very frequent and this helps to keep the attention of the listener
throughout the whole album without difficulty. Something that add further to
the greatness of this band is the somewhat unusual keyboard arrangements which
reveal some classical influences from their keyboard player Ray. The drums on
this album were played by the one and only Asgeir Mickelson of Spiral
Architect / Borknagar but he has since then left the band to be replaced by
Janos Di Croce from the Italian band VEGA. Lunaris is without a doubt one of
the most promising new bands on the Norwegian metal scene and should please
every fan of progressive extreme metal. Stand-out tracks: "In The Eyes Of The
Heretic", "In Contempt Of Humanity".
| Tracklist |
1. In The Eyes Of The Heretic |
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2. Arise 3. ...Of The One 4. Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum |
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5. Mother Of Storms 6. Growth Denied 7. Primal |
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Construction 8. In Contempt Of Humanity 9. A Final Journey |
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10. Soulcrush |
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