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One of the most unnecessariest CD ever released. | Don't buy this crap!!!!!!!!!!! Review by: warhellhammer 2 I don't know why you say this album sucks...indeed it's a great album which includes black, gothic, folk and some other elements. Review by: ahlan altough the production is somethimes messy (compared to jabberworks) still this is a very nice debut, strong lyrics , very independence of other black metalbands. Striking is the last trak , it made me think of mercyful fate's melissa ; done of laughing , done of pleasure , introducing the sadness... wonderfull 9/10 Review by: um jammer nectarus revised my review : with the last track i mean the unquiet grave , and jabberworks should have a nine as well! Review by: um jammer nectarus This album came as a god-sent gift in a time where I got tired of metal in general, and wondered if anyone could still be original. But when I listened to this album in the store I was almost moved to tears by the music. Rakoth is the kind of band that has such an unique sound that it's hard to classify them, and hard to describe them as a result. From the intro on it starts almost perfectly: soothing but somehow a bit sad flute-tones guide make the listener at ease, and prepares him/her for the power of the next song (a personal favorite). Fear (Wasn't in the Design) is one of those songs that brilliantly demonstrate that it's possible to syncretize flute-tones, with clean vocals mixed in with harsh (bm-)vocals, with varied drum-patterns, searing guitars and subtle keyboards. Then the next track, a synth+flute-interlude, brings the listener at ease once more with it's melancholic tones. Before I go into cliche-overdrive though, I'd recommend you head over to their site on mp3.com, or their labelsite, for some mp3s to check Rakoth out for yourself. Check out a song, and note the interplay of P.Noir's very appeasing (folky but avoiding the cliche-folk-vocals) clean vocals and Rustams harsh vocals. Using 2 vocalists at once is rare in metal, and to have it done and add so much to the music is perhaps even rarer. The problem with praising a band you like is that people will check them out and then be dissapointed, as it might not live up to expectation. I discovered this band because Aardschok metalmagazine gave it 100/100, and I've been a fan since. So please have an open and skeptic mind when listening to these songs, and if you don't like what you hear, listen another time on a later date. Apreciating this album wasn't hard for me because it sounded so different from what I expected, and even though in this day and age of folkbands galore, Rakoth remains pretty unique. The album-theme is based on the books of a Russian novelist whose name escapes me at the moment; he wrote several unofficial sequels to the Lord of the Rings. Fans of LotR might recognize some names in the titles. Anyway, the rest of the songs. Track 4 is a medium-paced song with an slight undertone of upbeatness. Og'Elend is a song about drow and tells a story of some sorts; it has a bit of a sinister undertone, as towards the end the overal atmosphere becomes that of betrayal and angry failure. Planeshift is a bit of a radical change in song-style without disrupting the flow of the album. It's on here that more black metal type elements come to the fore, and the clean vocals take a step back to have it's place taken by the harsher vox. Basically an upspeed song with a somewhat eerie atmosphere. I especially like the bit where on the height of the song the flutes prick through the wall of tremolo-melodies to insert a slightly alternative tune into the whole for a moment. The next 2 tracks return to 'normal' with a story to be told. On Mountain God a bit of a dark brooding atmosphere takes over. Lastly, before the soothing outro, a sort of tormented ballad about a lost love. Heck, just try some songs out, plenty of mp3s to find. Otherwise buy the album blind, if you like folk, a bit of the more symphonic bands and have no problem with harsh vox (I'm not talking Mayhem-style or even CoF-style here anyway) then this is your album. The fact that this album only gets a 94 reflects the fact that I don't give out 100's just like that. But this album is *that* good (just not perfect, no album is). Review by: Egregius
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