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All Dead Here

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Morgul has been around as a solo project for quite a few years now. Starting off as a keyboard-focused black metal band just like many bands of that era, Morgul made a drastic style change when it became a solo project with "The Horror Grandeur." Back then the album was categorized as post-black metal. Actually, Morgul presents a unique blend of truly haunting keyboard melodies, crunchy guitars and a vocalist who sounds like he's just encountered one thousand demons and lived to tell. All in all, the style is a very doomy black metal but it will definitely not be anyone's favourite. I like this "All dead here" but to be honest it is more rewarding to try and get hold of the preceding albums "The Horror Grandeur" and "Sketch of Supposed Murderer" which are two highlights.

Morgul covers as many bases as possible with All Dead Here, at times it succeeds and at times it simply sounds average. Morgul sounds like it could be the bastard child of Arcturus and Dimmu Borgir, it manages to be more adventurous than the former and more exciting than the latter and it's obvious that it has an obvious desire to stand out from the rest and be its own entity, but it seems like Morgul is still trying to find who it really is here, despite its many years of service in the underground. The title track is a definite highlight, with its haunting piano intro, which is totally mesmerizing. The album also succeeds in the way it delivers variety with its black metal inclinations, melodically symphonic segments, different vocal variations, somber atmospherics and some parts that tend to sound a bit industrial. But ultimately, it just doesn't achieve a high level of memorability, although many of the tracks do have a degree of catchiness.