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The madmen are back! Lugubrum has pressed the sixth full-length. It’s claims to be the most total Lugubrum experience yet. The album is released through Blood, Fire, Death and through Midgaars own label Old Grey Hair records (remember ‘De bruyne troon’: ‘Beneath the brown is grey, old grey hair.’)

Our Belgian farmers have locked up the name ‘Boersk Blek Metle’ and threw it back in their stables. Nowadays we talk about ‘Brown metal’. That’s not a surprise, if you take a look at the lyrics: Titles like ‘The kiss on the anus’ and ‘At the base of their tale’ will probably say enough. What has changed? First of all, the dirty sound of previous albums (like Bruyne troon’ and ‘De totem’) has become much cleaner. Also, the amount of jazzy intermezzos has increased if you compare this one to ‘De vette cuecken’, with again the help of a saxophone (these wicked tunes are the work of Bhodidharma). I regret there isn’t a song written in Dutch on this album because these pioneers of using Dutch lyrics have delivered more than once a lyrical masterpiece (remember ‘Aardmannen’).

Yet it stays a typical Lugubrum album: you either like it or not. The mu-sick is, once again, beyond limits of anything I know. The chains, the crazy saxophone tunes combined with great crazy riffs and Barditus’ vocals give a new dimension to the word ‘brown’. The outro, a weird tune that reminds me of a horror playing the same over and over again for 10 minutes, is one example of the wicked approach Lugubrum uses all the time. Listen carefully to it from beginning to end and I’m sure your brains will crack. The perfect music to experience when you’re drunk as hell and armed with some carrots. I do miss the dirty sound of older albums, but I think we can call this a successor of ‘De vette cuecken’ that continues Lugubrums ‘new’ sound, a new era in Lugubrums history –being their third era.

To conclude I’d say this is a must-have for all fans of Lugubrum and for the ones who want to undergo their ‘most total experience yet’.