This album from the Spanish band User Ne turned out to be one of the strangest musical experiences I have had in my entire life. Mixing everything from traditional folk music and flamenco tunes to black and doom metal you might imagine that this is not easy to review. Sometimes it tends to get a little bit too much and the result is somewhat chaotic but most of the time it sounds astonishingly good. User Ne is in most aspects a highly unusual band, not only because of their influences but the band is also made up of 9 musicians, some coming from mainly a metal background and some from renaissance music. I think User Ne is the first band I get to hear from the city of Málaga in the south of Spain, a place well frequented by Swedes who go there on vacation. There are bagpipes, flutes, female soprano vocals, screams and growls, close to anything and everything you can imagine. Sometimes it reminds me of Bal-Sagoth (mainly the male vocals), sometimes of Haggard, other times there are a bit of a Septic Flesh or early Moonspell atmosphere in the air. Strange, weird, avantgarde metal only for those of you with an open mind towards music.
written by Vincent Eldefors
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Tracklist
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| 1. Taranto |
| 2. Viola Dobozy |
| 3. Okankene 22 |
| 4. Tras El IV Caos |
| 5. Andalucí |
| 6. ...And Ape Ar |
| 7. An Mis Theimous |
| 8. Nivel-Um Cix |
| 9. Pobo De Lenda |
| 10. Main Ört |
| 11. Corcubión |
| 12. Naím, Yhazura, Derval… |
| 13. Al-Minzorth |
Playing time: 49.15