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A disjointed, blocky mix can’t totally undue the emotional heft of this epic, sometimes bizarre Russian-language album, but you can’t very well claim that it doesn’t try. The melodic guitar licks on the title track are so uplifting that they scream for a clarion production, yet here remain earthbound, almost criminally muted by the admittedly fine keyboard trills. I’m not suggesting that every record needs Sascha friggin’ Paeth engineering it, but Molodye Bogi definitely needs a mix that screams “check out all his majesty” with Trogdoresque wonder and awe. Here, though, the rhythm guitar riffs coagulate like old lobster bisque left sitting and the snare drums sound like paper. Thick paper – manila, perhaps – but paper nonetheless. Production snafus aside, this is some pretty interesting stuff throughout, with power and folk metal colliding with regional ethnic flair to form something alternately triumphant and hilarious, sometimes clueless and other times self-aware, but always original and highly admirable. It’s almost as if Oddiss has never heard a Western metal band or simply doesn’t care to acknowledge any, but either way, this record deserves to be heard by many. Heard more than looked at, for sure, because the cover art and booklet layout are utter shite, a rare example of El Cheapo for this otherwise lavish record label.
| Tracklist |
| 1. Intro |
| 2. Zamok |
| 3. Molodye Bogi |
| 4. Sny |
| 5. Atlantida |
| 6. Otrava |
| 7. Zaschitnik |
| 8. Klin |
| 9. Lyubov Moya |
| 10. Enola G |
| 11. Golos Puti |
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