Heilige Dwazen

Lugubrum (Author)

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Label: Blood Fire Death
• ASIN: B000Q01HOC
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #892,038 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Product Description

Well, doing this album justice with my meager words is going to be next to impossible, but I'll give it a shot anyway. If you're a black metal fan, will you like "Heilige Dwazen" from Belgium's LUGUBRUM? Maybe. You had better go in with an open mind and an appreciation for the strange and the eclectic though. "Heilige Dwazen" does rock hard with lots of galloping rhythms, primal (though a bit off the beaten path) guitar tones, and Barditus' gravelly-throat croak vocals. It's not like LUGUBRUM has strayed as far from the black metal path as, for example, ULVER. The frequent use of a saxophone serves as more than an intriguing oddity; it is a central component of the album's sound. Sometimes subtle but more often on par with bass, drums, and guitar, the instrument demands your attention. There are moments when I thought less about a black metal band with a sax and more about the random freak-outs heard on THE STOOGES' "Funhouse" disc (i.e. "We Slyly Sucked Stolen Bread"). The band is at its best when mixing it up, as "At the Base of Their Tail" so aptly demonstrates. When the vocalist breaks from his regular delivery and moves into what seems to be purposeful off-key "singing" on "We Slyly Sucked Stolen Bread", the result is actually quite charming, albeit in a pants-stained-with-piss, drunken sort of way. After four-and-a-half minutes of, uh, "normal" LUGUBRUM musical delivery on "On Anemone Meteorites", the remaining eight minutes consists of an unsettling drone and creepy carnival accordion loop. Have you now figured out that "Heilige Dwazen" is not for everyone? Good. I seriously doubt the band intended for its smartly done and wonderfully grating art to have mass commercial appeal. Good stuff.