Dornenreich - In Luft Geritzt - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Lynn Harrell - Known Unknowns [COMPACT DISCS] date 07/26/2011

Dornenreich - Flammentriebe [COMPACT DISCS] date 03/08/2011

On their seventh album InchFlammentriebeInch, Dornenreich look back to their roots and - after their more experimental works InchHexenwindInch (2005), InchDurch den TraumInch (2006), and InchIn Luft geritztInch (2008) - their first extreme-metal record in ten years. InchFlammentriebeInch is surrounded by an aura that is as tormented as it is blazing, making this record a lambent tribute to the principles of raw and archaic black metal. In February 2001, Dornenreich set up a ground-breaking monument to themselves and the world of poetic Black Metal with their third album, InchHer von welken Nächten.Inch Almost to the day ten years later, they are returning with InchFlammentriebeInch - an album that as their first Black Metal since 2001 picks up the thread music-wise as well as in terms of the line-up for the first time since InchHer von welken Nächten,Inch Eviga is joined again by drummer Gilvan and violinist Inve on a Dornenreich metal album. This past decade has left deep marks on the Austrian sound poets the youthful Sturm und Drang of InchHer von welken NächtenInch is definitely a thing of the past. Their magical seventh album InchFlammentriebeInch is surrounded by an aura that is as tormented as it is blazing, making this recording a lambent tribute to the principles of raw and archaic Black Metal - a that more than fulfils the listeners' appetite for an album just like this. Although the song lyrics may be considerably more embittered than before, they are nonetheless still defined by the idea of the circle as the centre of all doing. As always, they are an elemental part of the whole and emphasize Dornenreich's high artistic demands. The bitterness can be sensed in the music as well thundering drum parts and hypnotic violin melodies unite with Eviga's painful screams and feverish guitar play to a Black Metal wildfire that, like in homage to their own wo