*Artist: Allumn
*Album: Helm Of The Dead [demo]
*Year: 2014
*Genre: Raw Black Metal
*Country: United States
*Format: mp3@VBR160kbps
*Size: 8MB
Tracklist:
1. Darkmoon 03:41
2. Lucifer 01:54
3. Carpe Nocturnem 03:05
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Total playing time: 8:40
Extended info
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Allumn is a solo project by a mysterious young lady in the USA - this alone blows my mind, as there aren't enough of them out there in this environment. Given the choice, i'd sooner swallow this pill than anything put out by Myrkur or the trendy bitches giving us a bad reputation. Could this finally be the first thing since Astarte to get us all excited again? Of course it can.
Darkmoon" opens with some soft harmonic pieces reminiscent of the work on Burzum's "Hlidskjalf". It works its way into some folk-style acoustic guitars, building up gently into an assault that hits like nothing I can recall. Her vocals are amazing - harsh, hoarse growls that can only come from the lungs of a chain-smoker, and this lady is incredibly talented. The track stops abruptly with no warning, leaving the listener wondering what just happened. Utterly intentional, and very surprising.
The rest of this demo works in a similar way - gentle passages that could easily be used in a time-lapse video to show things happening over lengthy epochs bleed into aggression and hostility. Her drum work is restrained and has a distinct sound to it, and the guitars are minimal here but used enough to ring fence this as a metal project. I have no qualms about production, and by far, the biggest complaint about this is the fact that it ends so suddenly.
As this was released on Floppy Diskette, I've had no way to rip it, so the artist kindly sent me the material, which was at a horribly compressed 20 VBR (yet somehow sounds great!). I've tried to boost it and the highest I can possibly convert it to is 160. As I'm not confident in what I am doing here, I've included both the original files and my attempts.
Sadly no scans.
Allumn is a solo project by a mysterious young lady in the USA - this alone blows my mind, as there aren't enough of them out there in this environment. Given the choice, i'd sooner swallow this pill than anything put out by Myrkur or the trendy bitches giving us a bad reputation. Could this finally be the first thing since Astarte to get us all excited again? Of course it can.
Darkmoon" opens with some soft harmonic pieces reminiscent of the work on Burzum's "Hlidskjalf". It works its way into some folk-style acoustic guitars, building up gently into an assault that hits like nothing I can recall. Her vocals are amazing - harsh, hoarse growls that can only come from the lungs of a chain-smoker, and this lady is incredibly talented. The track stops abruptly with no warning, leaving the listener wondering what just happened. Utterly intentional, and very surprising.
The rest of this demo works in a similar way - gentle passages that could easily be used in a time-lapse video to show things happening over lengthy epochs bleed into aggression and hostility. Her drum work is restrained and has a distinct sound to it, and the guitars are minimal here but used enough to ring fence this as a metal project. I have no qualms about production, and by far, the biggest complaint about this is the fact that it ends so suddenly.
As this was released on Floppy Diskette, I've had no way to rip it, so the artist kindly sent me the material, which was at a horribly compressed 20 VBR (yet somehow sounds great!). I've tried to boost it and the highest I can possibly convert it to is 160. As I'm not confident in what I am doing here, I've included both the original files and my attempts.
Sadly no scans.
Technical info
Input File: 02 - Lucifer.mp3
Channels : 1
Sample Rate : 16000
Precision : 16-bit
Duration : 00:01:54.55 = 1832832 samples ~ 8591.4 CDDA sectors
File Size : 2.29M
Bit Rate : 160k
Sample Encoding: MPEG audio (layer I, II or III)
Comments :
Title=Lucifer
Artist=Allumn
Album=Helm of the Dead
Tracknumber=2
Year=2014
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