Double picture disc album with gatefold cover. Limited 700copies

“We see the drop of our drummer as the start of the realSummoning style. The real drummer was always the disturbing elementin our music. Real drum rhythms do not suit to the music ofSummoning at all. The drums of Summoning focus manly on deep tomtoms, kettle drums and marching drum; played in a very slow way.Any boaster breaks or blast beats would totally destroy thefeeling. I am really bored by the standard Hi Hat, bass drum, snarerhythms which didn’t really change since the beginning of rockmusic. I want to create rhythms that don’t rock, but spread thefeeling of ancient times.” ~Protector, in an interview in 2001

Indeed, this really is the first release that really gave us thetrue style of Summoning today, but at the time they didn’t reallyknow that; what that essentially translates to in terms of thechanges made from the foundation of Lugburz on Minas Morgul is afocus on more keyboards and slow-building songs. Right away, theominous build of “Soul Wandering” and the electronic drums- with nointention to sound real in the slightest- makes you realizesomething’s different here. I want to say that Summoning made theguitars more of a backdrop for the keyboards because that wascertainly their intention but although there’s even less of a focuson detail in the riffs than there was on Lugburz, their position inthe mix and the fact that they can still function fairly properlyas black metal riffs because the style intrinsically lacks thatsort of detail causes them to frequently win over the keyboards forthe most dominant element in the music when they’re in action. Thisis good news for most people into more traditional black metalbecause this is probably the closest to black metal they’ve eversounded in their “true” incarnation, and it also happens to be oneof their more concise and riffy albums. Songs like “Through theForest of Dol Guldur” and “Lugburz” (you put the title track on thewrong album, guys) are pretty much black metal through and through,even the drumming is more conventional and less Summoning-esque inits programming. Sometimes the drums even do something resemblingblastbeats. It makes for one of Summoning’s most varied albums,even if it doesn’t quite capture the same atmosphere that some ofthe later albums would. There are a few really goofy things aboutthis album that should make it seem like a really cheap, amateurishand inferior album from a third-rate band, but the superiorcompositional skill and the unique and plentiful elements at playgive it something of a timeless quality. Despite Minas Morgul’sinteresting qualities as a diverse sort of hybrid/transition album,this is just the basic setup; they would build on the foundationset in ways I find much more captivating, but this is still just areally good, sort of experimental black metal album that couldfeasibly occupy a spot in any decent metalhead’s collection.However, although the quality of Summoning albums tends tofluctuate (albeit fortunately not very wildly), the core featuresthat makes up their sound consistently mature as they go on; thisis an ambitious and entertaining album, sure, but it’s also animmature one. They’ve already pinned down something great, and thisis only the beginning.

Track list:
1. Soul Wandering
2. Lugburz
3. The Passing Of The Grey Company
4. Morthond
5. Marching Homewards
6. Orthanc
7. Ungolianth
8. Dagor Bragollach
9. Through The Forest Of Dol Guldar
10. The Legend Of The Master Ring
11. Dor Daedeloth

Condition cover: nm

Condition vinyl: nm

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