"Ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatuluk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul"...a ring to find them, a ring to seize them and to chain them into darkness...This is the secret will of Summoning, they want to put in chains their listeners and with every song a ring links together their souls. The invocation of the magic world of the "Middle Earth" lives here again in all its beauty and mystery. There are eight songs but this is not an album with a normal structure, this is a real sound track for images that don’t belong to our world. In despite of the past Summoning now privilege the martial rhythm of a slow drum machine while the ever-inspired guitar riffing is on the background. This choice gives to the album the sensation that Protector and Silenius would represent their music like a march through the Tolkien’s world. In fact you can find gloomy arrangements with calm moments that go with the listeners through desolated lands. Some times there’s an off-screen voice, a story-teller that describes the glorious adventures of heroes and their fame, the battle between Good end Evil. Listening to "Farewell" you’ll could hear the echoes of war, the lament of injured soldiers, the hymns of victory. Isengard is going to gather a great army, a feeble cold shiver is shaking the Middle Earth...are you ready to the final battle? How can I say about the artwork of this album? Simply fantastic! Painted forests for the ethereal painted created by the music that Summoning play with a personal use of the epic tones that contain something abstract, melancholy, and majestic. Summoning are able to create a three-dimensional world doing a simple and genial use of their epic music. A unique band that during many years has find a peculiar kind of music. Let mortals sing the "chansons de geste" of these two Black Knights coming from Austria...Proud immortal ode to eternity!

I’ve loved Summoning for the incredible ability to recreate a more disenchanted vision of the epic Tolkien world, albums like "Minas Morgul" and "Stronghold" are the best expression of that art, differently "Let Mortal Sing Your Fame" sound a bit weak on my ears, there’re only two songs that have the right mood and quality to deserve the Summoning trademark. I can listen to too many problems on the mixing, because the militaristic drum-machine is recorded too high and the majority of the melodies and lines are covered by this instrument. The reality for me is that another great band of the past is losing its inspiration, recording songs that have only a weak semblance of the past glory. I don’t judge the Tolkien heritage but the ridiculous trend that is taking form is something horrible, Summoning, apart from the fact that they started to follow that path far before that new-wave, are now trying to take a clear position to be part of the party, and that involution is bringing down the melancholic aura of some unforgettable songs of "Minas Morgul".
What I’ve always liked of the Summoning’s musical approach was the ability to mix the epic spirit with a sad shadow, a wider spectrum that, choosing to explore the dark side instead of the light, was different from the actual epic change of the actual release. "Let Mortals..." is conceptually becoming too "power" and epic metal oriented for my taste, and it isn’t enough to have a screaming to be linked with the dark side.