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Ysengrin: To Endotation

The style of music presented on this album is referred to as "hermetic dark metal", and the collective of musicians that make up the band Ysengrin goes by the name of "La Guilde de la Malabeste". Oh, and the album contains just one song which is over forty minutes long. I guess that, already by now, the reader expects this to go in two directions: either the review will berate the album and the musicians calling them pretentious charlatans hiding behind fake labels or it will praise the musicians for their originality and artistic approach to music.

So, what will it be?

Kack or killer?

Well, I have to say that it is killer. It is really killer. The song might be over forty minutes of length but Ysengrin really pull it off brilliantly. It contains several moves and changes – passages and sequences -, taking you through a variety of dark moods, and features a couple of reprised themes to keep it all together. Stylistically, the song draws on death metal, black metal, doom metal, a bit of primitive thrash metal, heavy metal and hard rock, and there are even a couple of acoustic sections.

So, the music is very varied and indeed progressive, but it never comes across as being overly technical. It is more a matter of building up moods and experimenting with the interplay between these. One thing, however, that is not very varied, is the vocals. This being ultimately based on different types of extreme metal, the vocals are harsh, in this case a very gravely type of growling, which – I must admit – does not really appeal to me. It does stop this album from being a musically and artistically very successful release.

So, if you have forty minutes to spare and want to listen to some expressive – epic yet dark – heavy metal with plenty of variation and interesting textures, then you should explore the piece of art that is Ysengrin's To Endotation.


Tracklisting:
1. To Endotaton

Added: July 28th 2012
Reviewer: Kim Jensen
Score:
Related Link: Ysengrin official website
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Language: english

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