I had great expectations for the new Naglfar because I found really great a masterpiece like Vittra, the style proposed here is a kind of melodic black metal fired at dark funeral’s speed and the only thing that i find interesting in this kind of work is the final piano track, the other songs are much like a great "symposium of boredom" so to be more clear i can say that the songs are all the same but different, with the same standard for every riff and song structure. It’s useless to speak about the atmosphere...there isn’t less than an inch of nothingness here, to be honest there are also some good melodies but all so similar...this album it’s so anonymous that making a review it’s very difficult, i think that Naglfar is another of that bands condemned to dwell forever in the sea of mediocrity and it seems that they will last for another or two albums and then split up, I think they’ve chosen a path artistically dead, so the final mark will be anonymous as Sheol.
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Five
years in silence are too much for every band ,now it’s the time to conquest
back the glory lost,"Sheol" the new release for this Swedish cult,
confirms their magnificence ,hypnotizing us during all the running time of this
infernal jewel.
The opener track "I’m vengeance" shows a band full of energies and
excellent input ,this song is the manifest of hate recalling the fantastic
melodies on the supreme "Diabolical" album.
"Wrath of the fallin" instead seems like an unreleased song from the
debut "Vittra",the perfect harmonies between the guitars surrounded by
keyboard parts used with intelligence ,never boring supporting eminently all the
riffs.
The quality of sound gives prestige to all the songs with a not totally clear
production ,dynamic and obscure.
The ascension of hell now is scanned by the dreaming "Abysmal descent"
with its sinister feeling given by great synths lavished by detailed and sublime
arrangements with astonishing vocal performance.
The best episode of this precious pearl is "Of gorgons spawned to
witchcraft" also present in the mini cd "Ex- inferis" here
re-recorded in a majestic symbiosis between melody and aggressive assault . A
journey into maelstrom of deep dark feelings!
The closing track is an instrumental hymn called "The infernal ceremony"
reconfirming my words over this review that is "Sheol" a rare Jewel of
evil beauty, an album soaked in malignance from the beginning to the end
enchanting for its immediacy veiled in darkness.
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