Lunar Aurora: Andacht

Its been too long since I posted and shared my joy of good metal albums with the rest of you who love it also. If you don't know about this album and you are into atmospheric black metal, get this, if you can't afford or find a regular copy, then download it because ( to use a less formal than review quality phrase) its fucking awesome. Basically what they do is use very atmospheric black metal riffing, and add in some very atmospheric touches, such as the addition of clean vocals, and even some gregorian chant parts to make it even more atmospheric.

What I love about this album is how it uses the atmospheric touches to enhance the dark, sometime mournful atmosphere given by the shrieked vocals and riffing to create an album that has a hypnotic, if not someone "floaty" quality for lack of better words. The greatest example of this is in Gluck the first track. It has clean vocals layered over top of all the black metal sounds, such to give it a dark, but still very gorgeous atmospheric sound. Fans of only raw black metal should stay away from this one, as the production value is pretty high quality for black metal, not overly polished mind you.

The songs are all pretty long, all of them clocking in somewhere between 8 and 11 minutes. And they tend you use that to add to whole mind encompassing atmosphere. The keyboard parts on this album, while not overly present or complex, are there for one reason, atmosphere, and they do the job well. Sometimes its what really makes the album. The guitar parts very from simplistic midpaced riffs, the more dark sounding tremolo riffs. This album is like no other atmospheric black metal album I've ever heard so describing it for you has kind of been a difficult task. All that I can say further is if you like atmospheric black metal GET THIS its one of the best atmospheric albums I have ever encountered, and no one does it quite like them.

standout tracks: all, but I find Gluck, and Dunkler Mann to be a cut above the rest slightly

100/100