Melita – Music web-zine

1. Invocation of Fire
2. Invocation of Water
3. Invocation of Earth
4. Invocation of Air
5. Tending Thy Grounds
6. L.O.T.M.P.
7. Be It On Be It Within
8. The Lost Speech
9. Lug-Dunum
10. Invocation of the Eye
11. Children of the Proud Fields
12. Irminons
13. Weeping Goddess

One of the most convincing syntheses of noise and black metal this reviewer has ever heard, this album blends throughout all of its length atonal phrasings on the synthesiser with quasi-melodic down-tuned guitar and nebulous bass passages, with a demented vocalist throwing up some vocals here and there and a drummer on amphetamines. Song structures are unimportant, the concept of the album as a whole makes much more sense. Four invocations open the listening session, ‘Tending Thy Grounds’ expands this band’s sonic outlook in a leisurely way, the title-track is a weird industrial march that offers respite from the ravishing blizzard elsewhere, and more chaos follows as the rest of the music speeds by. Expecting another Burzum clone will result in disappointment, listeners with an appreciation of original art will at least applaud the effort.