*Artist: V.A.
*Album: The Garden Of The Misanthrope,Vol.1 [best of/compilation]
*Year: 2004
*Genre: Pagan / Black Metal
*Country: Bulgaria (Blagoevgrad)
*Format: mp3@320
*Size: 145 Мб.
Tracklist:
1. INSPELL - "Through The Infinite Dusty Curves" [5:05]
2. SAMHAYNE - "O, Dull Cold Northern Sky" [7:19]
3. THE NEXT DIMENSION - "Essence Of The Stars" [5:33]
4. DARKMOON RISING - "Where The Shadows Come Alive" [5:37]
5. GROND - "Hatred" [3:56]
6. MRAKOBES - "Flesh Of The Snake" [4:15]
7. FROSTBITTEN - "A Thousand Martyrs I Have Made" [3:42]
8. PROJECT DISHARMONY - "No Name" [4:41]
9. MPAK - "...Waking Dreams Dying..." [5:40]
10. DESECRATED DREAMS - "Prelude Of The Cursed" [5:51]
11. MARDRAL - "From Blindness To Eternity" [3:23]
12. LEGION - "Retribution Pending" [6:01]
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Total playing time: 61:03
Best quality CD-Rip compression with bitrate: mp3@320 kbps with 5% recovery record
********************************************REVIEWS************************************
"The Garden of the Misanthrope" is an extremely nice collection of symphonic black metal pieces issued by Little Norway Productions – a young record company based in Bulgaria’s “Little Norway”, namely a city called Blagoevgrad.
To be more precise, the compilation we’re paying attention to presents the audio-art of 11 quite promising newcomer bands from Bulgaria, plus a group from Slovakia named Desecrated Dreams, all of them performing mainly in the above mentioned genre-direction. Yes, the songs united here could be described as a beautiful diverse breed (not clones or copies!) of Emperor meets Arcturus vs. Limbonic Art plus Asgaroth, if you get what I mean... As really outstanding we could point out the innovative, avantgarde, brutally melodic creations by Inspell (with a composition off the duo’s debut "Fairy-Tales, Chapter 1" [2003]), the one-man project Legion (listen to the catchy apocalyptic industrial tunes and samples incorporated), Darkmoon Rising (featured with an epic piece that’s going to appear on their forthcoming full-length album "Durance of Hate"), the obscure Mpak (performing the only track with lyrics in Bulgarian – all the rest are sung in English) or Samhayne, just to mention a few. Actually, the only exceptions of the style described are the more straightforward, evilness-loaded outbursts by Mardral, Mrakobes and Frostbitten.
All in all – more than one hour full of overwhelming melodies, streaming aggression, original ideas and impressive musicianship! In addition come the high sound quality of the recordings and the professional booklet-layout... and I think that’s far more than enough and... Hell, it’s brilliant!
If you think "The Garden of the Misanthrope" would be of any interest for you too, then visit Little Norway Productions’s homepage, listen to a few mp3-samples by the bands featured on the CD, and order it. The price is definitely much lower than the quality.
Author: [Nicki]
http://www.wallsoffire.de/Reviews/show_rev...4184&lang=2
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