Eredet

The demo of the young band (Eredet, meaning ’Origin’ in English) was released in early fall of 2010. It is available virtually and downloadable. Listening to it first time, it sounds like the Swiss Eluveitie. At second time, too. But, if we listen to it carefully, we can find the differences. Albeit this band mix its music with metalcore roars and gothenborger melo-death riffs, even so it has somethink typical Eastern. The band doesn’t conceal that their main aim to alloy Csángó (Moldavian Hungarian), Bulgar and Mongol folk music with modern metal music. The fiddle/violin and the hurdy-gurdy don’t have such role as in the Helvetian band, instead of that the folkish woodwinds: the flutes, the kaval and the bagpipe lead the main line, but the other folk instruments (kobza, fiddle, hurdy-gurdy) support perfectly and make harmonic their music.


The album contains five tracks. The quality of the sound is very good. Albeit that it was recorded in a home studio, many more famous bands’ full-length album have weaker quality. All instruments sounds well, there is no chaos because of the use of many instruments, though it could be a big problem.


The intro (Ancestry) can keep its feet. It is a beautiful traditional tune played on kaval (Moldavian traditional flute). Perhaps the natural sounds of the background are sometimes a bit hard, but the whole song is balanced.


The first ’real’ track is the Forgotten Path, which begins strongly and continues similarly! The rough Swedish-like metallic grinding is lead over by bagpipe tune. The male vocals are metalcore-like, which is made masterful by the metallic female vocals too. The lyrics are about the Hungarian nation and its ancient faith in English for foreigners, who can even understand the contents, not just the Heathen atmosphere of the music. The woodwind solo, which is in third quarter of the track, evokes the ancient, Nomadic world. This song will be very popular on concerts.


The third song is an instrumental interlude, the Forebear’s Dance. Its beginning is a bagpipe play with drum dub, then the fiddle and at last, the guitars also join. To the half, the tune is calm, relaxing, then it become faster, but this doesn’t grind. The song is balanced, the fiddle play is typical Hungarian. At the end, the music become more ’aggressive’, and this makes the song more rolling. Our ancestors would surely rejoice to similar music!


The third song is a Hungarian Csángó folk song, the Nap és Hold (Sun and Moon). It took place on the album of the Hungarian folk band, Zurgó in 1997, but there had the title Rózsa (Rose). In this song, the female vocals are not hard, as in the second track, but gentle and folkish. Under the singing, the guitar leads the tune, but the solo is played on woodwinds in this song too. The song is a perfect choice, because not just the foreigners, but also most Hungarians don’t know this nice love song, as well as other Csángó songs, but they are also the parts of the Hungarian folk music.


The outro, called Song from the Lost, has no metallic sound, instead of that, the song is a fiddle play varied with throat singing. Hopefully in later songs throat singing will be back, because it gives a really interesting atmosphere to the song. This track, which evokes a shaman rite, is a good end of the album.


To sum up, this beginner band made a nearly professional work. The 19 minutes long demo is extremely various, with more kinds of folk instruments and singing, and the quality of the record is also up to the international stage. Surely they can’t get over the title of ’Hungarian/Eastern European Eluveitie’ soon, but with assiduous work, they’ll become one of the best Hungarian metal bands, or even they’ll win international fame soon. They can’t be accused by making trumpery music. In my own opinion, Niburta is the future of the Hungarian folk metal (with some other bands). I offer them to the attention of everybody!


Written by: Tamás Péderi /ST. Toma/