Customer Reviews

Minas Morgul

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

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.

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

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).

Buy this. If you like metal of any kind, buy this. While a more musically proficient artist would undoubtedly have done more with this idea. . . NO ONE ELSE HAS THOUGHT OF IT. Stirring, haunting, majestic, BEYOND good and evil, despite its "evil Tolkein" content. In the midst of this medieval context, we find a desperate human longing/dynamic/searing heart surgepulse that anyone can identify with... but black metal fans, let me tell you... A'INT NO ONE DONE ANYTHING LIKE THIS EVER!!! ILL ILL ILL!!! Great stuph. BUY IT (BUT NOT HERE!!!!!!!!!)

PEACE!

Summoning in undoubtedly the most amazing music experience you'll never heard! Touching melody and Lyrics influenced by Tolkien music will take you to a world you cannot even imagine...

Yeah this is pretty cool stuff, can't wait to get more of their CD's to see what sounds they create. This CD is basically 100% atmosphere, so if you like that kind of music then this is probably the CD for you. Add on to it the descent lyric work even thought it uses a pre-establish and popular world Middle Earth.

Dagor Bragolloch (sp) was my favorite song, but they are all pretty good, like Orthanc, Ungolianth, and passing of the gray company.

Try this band out of you like atmospheric sounds with a catchy tune to every song and growling vocals. It can get redundant if you listen to it a lot, and I think this mostly has to do with the beat not varying very much. Regardless, this music is great to listen to while driving, doing homework, playing games, reading, etc. because it has that "background quality" or whatever.

They could take the guitars off of this album and still retain the beauty and feeling conveyed here. This is one of the best albums I have had the pleasure to hear. This is not black metal, this is ambient music in the style of Pazuzu with guitars. The concept and music of this band stand alone with no imitators. This is "black ambient medieval music" at its purest. Buy or forever be haunted by the knowledge that you missed out on the eargasm of a lifetime.

In the Lord of the Rings books, Minas Morgul was known as the Dead city, home of the Witch King of Agmna. Summoning has gone with more keyboards along with their traditional black metal and it sounds really evil. Silenius is a great musician all around and so is Protector (of all endless sleeps). Protector's vokills are much better (meaning worse) than Lugburz. The song Lugburz is absolutely great and why wasn't it on the Lugburz album? This was worth the $ and is a black/classical metal album.

What an incredible album. I mean this is what black metal is all about, pure hatred, sorrow, and suffering. Need I say more?

Tolkien influated music is hard to find anyware and when ye find it, it sucks! The artists are obviously satanists and it's hard to notice what the hell they are singing. The best about their music is the drums, it's arificial (synterziser made) though.