Lunar Poetry Review

Release Date: 2001
Label: The End
Genres: Death Metal/Black Metal, Progressive Metal
Number Of Tracks: 10
Like a storm gathering in the sky, Lunar Poetry continues on building and building thoughts and peace in your mind. From the inspiring folk-melodies of Ancient Nation to the war-march of The Grief Of Oriana, prepare to experience perfection.

Sound:	9
Lyrics:	8
Impression:	10
Overall rating:	8.7
Reviewer rating:	9
Users rating:	8.3
Votes:	7

overall: 9

Reviewed by: macho man, on october 19, 2007

Sound: This is Nokturnal Mortum's second album. It is very melodic and they used keyboards, choir sounds etc to put a lot of emphasis on that aspect of their music. When using other instruments some bands have trouble striking a balance so that the main instruments are not overpowered, but I think that Nokturnal Mortum found a good compromise on this album. The sound quality isn't perfect but as with most black metal music that is mostly beneficial to the atmosphere. Lunar Poetry has a cold feeling to it, it stirs up a lot of imagery of snow, pine trees and wolves when I listen to it, which is very enjoyable as it suits the music so well. It is also notable that the folk influence found on their other albums is not very strong on Lunar Poetry. In fact that is one of the reasons that I prefer this album to their others. // 9

Lyrics and Singing: I can't understand any of the lyrics and have not been able to find them online. The singing however is good, it is very harsh and contrasts well with the melodic keyboards. The vocals change throughout the album so they don't become tiring over the course of the album. However for someone who is very much into lyrics in music it might feel like something is missing. // 8

Impression: I love this album. Highlight songs for me are: Lunar Poetry, ...And Winter Becomes, and Perun's Celestial Silver. For someone who is not familiar with Nokturnal Mortum, this is the album I would recommend to start on. If it were stolen I would buy it again. // 10

Comments

[SilentGhost]

This is a pretty solid album by one of the favorite black metal bands. Not the best one they put out, but still quite good. I just wish that all these black metal bands had better production quality.

[NocturnalFlesh]

I'm not hating, but I thought poor production quality was pretty much a trademark of the black metal genre.

Aside from that, this isn't a bad album. Not by any means.

[Emenius Sleepus]

this and Goathorns are essential albums for anyone getting into NM

[Der Meister]

Hail BLACK METAL! Nokturnal Mortum has to be one of my favorite bands ever. This CD is amazing like all the rest.

[killthekingx]

Heh, and winter becomes is f'in epic.

[2Old2Cold]

This is actual their second demo, not actual full length album. But anyway, yeah this demo is perfect. The sound is not that bad really, just has that tape hiss in the background, but it's not a problem.

Nokturnal Mortum are seriously one of the best BM bands currently going, and always have been. My favorite album of theirs is definately NeChrist.

[Rengori]

NM fucking rocks, it's nice to see them on the front page.

[Rengori]

And also, the lyrics are missing because NM didn't know English very well at the time this was written are and are too embarrassed to put them up.

[Emenius Sleepus]

2Old2Cold wrote:

This is actual their second demo, not actual full length album. But anyway, yeah this demo is perfect. The sound is not that bad really, just has that tape hiss in the background, but it's not a problem.

Nokturnal Mortum are seriously one of the best BM bands currently going, and always have been. My favorite album of theirs is definately NeChrist.

still.. Black metal and doom made me look at demos in an entirely new way. They almost re-validated those releases for me. Hail Nokturnal Mortum!

[Hamburger89]

Isn't this one of those extreme right winged nazi bands?

[nocturno.culto]

@Hamburger89: Yeah. Let this crap die.

[2Old2Cold]

This is not crap. This shits on most black metal bands, regardless if they are NS or not.