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IN THA UMBRA "Thus Open Thine Eerie Wings Like An Eagle and Soar
The Winds Of Chaos" CD 2009 (Agonia) 10/10
IN THA UMBRA is one of the very
few original metal bands who are able to combine different styles into one
unique complex....making you travel like on a chessboard, with unawaited
switch-overs from furious death-grind up to mellifluous ambient...or down tempo
funeral doom metal. there is no name to qualify that band....and every passage
here, even if coming unexpected...is savantly calculated...."Heonan Epiphainein"
is propelling us back into the 70's with some 70's pre-metal...especially these
hammon organs that give a unique feeling....then, with a progressive transition,
we are moving ten years ahead in less than a minute with some more scandinavian
mid 90's black death/like the pre-At The gates times and pre-Dissection
times....then flating riffs. It is like the four seasons in one day....With IN
THA UMBRA it is like at least five different styles of metal....in just one
song! Isn't that freaking awesome..."Apsinthion Thirst" starts with Portuguese
spoken words...and goes straight into mid tempo melodic death metal....but still
a hypnotic climate of darkness....the sound of coming darkness! "Slough Ov
Capricorn" is a very "progressive" song where accoustic and electric parts are
creating a truly irresistible "musical landscape"where parts are building up on
eachother, it is like you go from plateaus to mauntains....and from mountains to
plateaus....and all the time with these breathtaking views....of vastness! "And
Damnation's rash Bled fevers" got again these harmony guitar parts and then
suddenly, unexpectedly, these more 70's parts...then these ballad-like
guitars....a bit in a lullaby style....it is absolutely
awesome....breathtaking..."A Cornucopia Regia" has this unique interlude of male
and female voics spoken...then metal, then even parts of operetta....things i
have NEVER EVER heard in metal before....this is simply majestic...this is
supreme...IN THA UMBRA has released one of the BEST CD i ever heard in the
Portuguese scene...and this band is SO underrated....hey...you are holding right
here and right now....A TRUE GEM....In Tha Umbra is Portugal's BEST KEPT SECRET!
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