Minas Morgul

Summoning | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 18, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Napalm
• ASIN: B000G1R4KC
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #109,050 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Available domestically for the first time, Summoning’s Minas Morgul continues the journeys through Middle Earth started on Lugburz. Heightened production creates more grandiose battles and epic Tolkien-inspired tales filled with legend and lore!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Summoning's best, June 2, 2001

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Rinalds (Latvia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Minas Morgul (Audio CD)

I fell in love with this album the first sight :) Beautiful melodies, great keyboards, scary voices and majestic emotion. It takes you back to those dark medieval times when dragons were in the sky, bards and heroes roamed the land, elves hunted in the woods, dwarves carved deep caves in the ancient hills and trolls patrolled the mountain passes, when elder gods walked the earth, when moonlight was young and magic was strong, and sword was the highest judge...

Masterpiece.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for Tolkien whorshipers!, June 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Minas Morgul (Audio CD)

Summoning make the ultimate soundtrack to the Lord of the Rings trilogy. While most medieval music bands make songs of bards singing of marvelous events, Summoning make the soundtrack that would be playing while the events were occuring. Really makes you feel like you are in Tolkien's beautiful world

And don't let their monster voices scare you, they just add to the Middle-Earth athmosphere

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Tedium, August 17, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Minas Morgul (Audio CD)

Customer reviews are rather misleading in that everyone seems to throw the five star rating around without sincerity or thought. Minas Morgul is that rather dry album stuck in between two of Summoning's better albums: Lugburz and Dol Guldar, two of which are essential to a BM collection. While these two albums were a bit more lively and majestic, Minas is rather slow, repetitious, and uninspiring. While repetion is certainly not bad for creating ambience as Burzum, Darkthrone and Graveland have revealed, is is not all that engrossing when it is used soley to make long songs with weak themes. The flow of the album is inconsistent, built of agonizingly slow and underproduced tracks shoved in between squeeky clean instrumentals that don't really add anything to the album. The majority of these instrumentals amount to novelty and almost random compulsion (which would plague later Abigor albums). If you really like Summoning and you have the cash, I would pick this up, but for those who have never heard Summoning, I would listen to Lugburz (for that necro-BM sound) and Dol Goldar (for majestic keyboard soaked soundscapes).