Artist: MANATARK
Title: Crimson Hours
Format: CD
Country: Estonia
Genre: Black Metal
Record Label: Metal Age Productions
Description: Beneath the layer of recognized leaders of the metal scene there has always been a world of it's own - the pillars and walls that support the mighty. Over the past years MANATARK, the premium black metal act from Tallinn, ESTONIA, has taken different forms and roles in the construction of these underground halls. Third album from Estonia's premier blackened extreme metal outfit.
Tracklisting:
1. Revival (Intro) 02:10
2. Crimson Hours 04:41
3. When Death You Takes 03:42
4. My Plague Upon You 05:22
5. Spiral Swirls 05:17
6. Black Breath 04:00
7. Pulse (Instrumental) 02:14
8. Sirens Calling 04:31
9. Ei Ühtegi Orja 04:11
10. The Fall (Outro) 01:54
Total playing time 38:02
Review:
The music delivered here is very technical, with an attractive riffing and interesting melodic breaks... the vocals, and the whole harmonic game, sounds totally emotionless, seeming more like a mathematical musical construction. The mixing between Black Metal growling and clean voice is perfect, all the time accompanied by outstanding strings (the guitars are the standout point of this band). To give you musical references, picture something between the cold Doom of early NOVEMBERS DOOM (sharing with MANATARK the lack of passion in their music) and the precious melodic Black Metal of WYRD, which gives us a very interesting breed.
