Lamentations of the Shadowkingdoms LP
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After 5 years of silence and meticulous work DUNGEON SERPENT returns
with their second album "Lamentations of the Shadowkingdoms." Having
already constructed a standout style of death metal with "World of Sorrows"
sharply focused upon fusing morbid and romantic strains of extreme metal
from before metal's turn-of-the-century involution, Dungeon Serpent now
boldly looks to a future of their own creation and stretches their limbs to new
horizons, breathing new life into the ruined world presented in the first album
Thus this new album is a work of grand ambition and unbowed passion, not content
to merely fine-tune and repeat what has already been done in a bygone age.
Yet with this expansion "Lamentations of the Shadowkingdoms" presents a work
united as a great whole. Each of the six pieces are tonally distinct but thematically
bound and flow into a monolithic whole. The vision is executed with greater clarity,
enhanced skill, focus and the addition of new members to the horde, such as
drummer Bhraonain (Fake Dust). The music is now played with a speed and ferocity
well beyond what was achieved on the first album, and the technique of the core
instrumentation is more eclectic, drawing more freely from black metal, brutal death
metal, and even as far as jazz and grind, as well as a sharper mix courtesy of
Subterranean Watchtower Studios that allows elements such as agile basslines to be
heard with much more clarity. The music cleanly flows between this ferocity and an
almost cosmic sense of orchestral grandiosity, owing to the expanded
instrumentation within the songs, chiefly mystical keyboards in the Hellenic tradition
and violins provided by string player and contemporary composer Anju Singh (The
Nausea), as well as many other adventurous atmospheric and textural flourishes.
"Lamentations of the Shadowkingdoms" is a work that expresses both the
untempered rawness and ferocity but also the latent musical potential within the
truest essence of death metal in one breath, realized and entwined as extensions of
one and the same principle
Lamentations of the Shadowkingdoms LP
€50,00