Servants of Sorcery

Númenor strikes back again with another EP after a chain of Singles and a split, preparing for their debut that should hit the scene before the end of this year, as the members claimed. I am a loyal fan to this band and a supporter to a lot of other epic black metal projects in the scene, also a friend of Despot Marko Miranović and his webzine "Metal Sound". I'd love to give some credit to this EP and steal your attention to check it out. However, to start reviewing it, this release is "Thankfully" not another crap released in the scene like a lot of others nowadays. What brought my attention to this EP are three reasons:

First of all the idea and the feeling behind the design of the cover art itself, and of course that's totally not enough for reviewers and musicians, music is what we're searching for in the end.
Second: Both of the tracks were recorded perfectly and every instrument's perfectly audible.
Third: The quality of production that i got used to it by this band since the latest releases. There's nothing disappointing I promise, the mastering is perfect, the mixing is totally flawless.

Abbreviating the speech is a very hard thing to do, although taking in consideration the total length of this EP, since Númenor work cannot be described in couple of words. This EP consists of two songs as it's already shown, the first song is "Aeons of Magick", and the second one is "Once We Were Kings" which it's taken from the first split release with Forlorn Wisp. Reading the title of the first song made me think that it's a cover for the Portuguese art Sirius... Yet, listening to it was a journey, I felt proud of myself wasting these 5 minutes listening to it. The Drums varies in these two tracks, from slow tempo to mid tempo parts. The Bass is pretty much an assistant in the songs along with the double bass drums that is playing a huge role in both of the tracks. The Vocals is perfect and improvises from Grim parts to Clean ones. The guitars has a lot of Palm-Mute riffs, which it is absolutely the first reason behind the lack of Black Metal elements in it, yet it fits the epic theme of the atmosphere and the ideas of Númenor.

The only sentence to quote of why I haven't given this album a total of 100% is just because of the shortness of its length, and because of the excessive techniques of guitar and drums that made it sound more progressive, otherwise, this is a must-listen EP, filled with feelings of rage, rebellion and pride. A successful path that is "Hopefully" leading to their debut full-length "Colossal Darkness" in the near future.