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Trollheart · 12-28-2015, 05:06 AM

Title: Melting Sun
Artiste: Lantlôs
Genre: Experimental Black Metal
Familiarity: Zero
Recommended by: Machine

Expectations: The experimental tag worries me. Some black metal I've listened to has been great, some good, some awful. Hard to really know what to expect. Gonna take a chance and say I hope to like it.

1. Melting Sun I: Azure chimes: Well the titles are certainly not your standard black metal ones! All bright colours, hardly any darkness, unless you count aquamarine. Nice gentle acoustic guitar opening, though I'm waiting for a mad scream and hammering riffs; well there the latter is, though not as harsh as I had expected. Ooh! The vocal is a normal one, no scream, no rasp, no growl. Nice surprise. Actually I couldn't call this any shade of black metal I've ever heard, not even atmospheric. Maybe they were black metal and changed later? Anyway this is really nice.
2. Melting Sun II: Cherry quartz: Yeah, this is much more like post-rock or post-metal. Great work on the guitar, fine melody. Sort of a touch of progressive metal in here too.
3. Melting Sun III: Aquamarine towers: Nice long feedback start, kind of Sabbath riff driving it for the first part
4. Melting Sun IV: Jade fields: another great little mostly instrumental, very powerful.
5. Melting Sun V: Oneironaut: A short one, atmospheric, think it may be all instrumental this time.
6. Melting Sun VI: Golden mind: Lovely reflective, almost warped guitar, slow and laidback with a nice soft vocal. Really quite beautiful. Gives me a kind of Floyd vibe.

End result: An excellent album, but nowhere near anything approaching black metal. Not sure where that came from.

So, Love or Hate? Has to be a Love.

12-28-2015, 05:06 AM	#2434 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Title: Melting Sun Artiste: Lantlôs Genre: Experimental Black Metal Familiarity: Zero Recommended by: Machine Expectations: The experimental tag worries me. Some black metal I've listened to has been great, some good, some awful. Hard to really know what to expect. Gonna take a chance and say I hope to like it. 1. Melting Sun I: Azure chimes: Well the titles are certainly not your standard black metal ones! All bright colours, hardly any darkness, unless you count aquamarine. Nice gentle acoustic guitar opening, though I'm waiting for a mad scream and hammering riffs; well there the latter is, though not as harsh as I had expected. Ooh! The vocal is a normal one, no scream, no rasp, no growl. Nice surprise. Actually I couldn't call this any shade of black metal I've ever heard, not even atmospheric. Maybe they were black metal and changed later? Anyway this is really nice. 2. Melting Sun II: Cherry quartz: Yeah, this is much more like post-rock or post-metal. Great work on the guitar, fine melody. Sort of a touch of progressive metal in here too. 3. Melting Sun III: Aquamarine towers: Nice long feedback start, kind of Sabbath riff driving it for the first part 4. Melting Sun IV: Jade fields: another great little mostly instrumental, very powerful. 5. Melting Sun V: Oneironaut: A short one, atmospheric, think it may be all instrumental this time. 6. Melting Sun VI: Golden mind: Lovely reflective, almost warped guitar, slow and laidback with a nice soft vocal. Really quite beautiful. Gives me a kind of Floyd vibe. End result: An excellent album, but nowhere near anything approaching black metal. Not sure where that came from. So, Love or Hate? Has to be a Love. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018