Hornology

I was very, very confused the first time I listened to this album… It didn’t sound at all like the Sauron I knew, and I also thought it was quite soon to release a new album… And that’s when I realized that it’s two completely different band’s. The Sauron I know are Dutch, but these guys are Polish. I’ve never heard of them before, but apparently they released two demos in the early 90ies, recorded an album that didn’t get released as it was meant, broke up and rose again to release this album.

Most of the time it’s of a rather slow tempo, with the riffs doing the talking. Some fairly intricate and technical riffing, but that get lost in the relatively weak sound. I guess it’s a drummachine, which sound a little too rigid and dead. That’s the case for most drummachine recordings, but this is exceptionally “un-living” with a rigid kickdrum and way too triggered sound. And on top of that the, as I mentioned, relatively weak production overall makes this a release easily forgotten. It really doesn’t do anything to impress me. But, there is a good side to this as the vocals are quite wicked and sound typically old school grim. However that’s really it; nothing else is exciting.

This is a xerox-cover promo, so I haven’t seen the actual release. But from the few pictures I’ve seen of it, it looks really exceptional and cool. But as it is I won’t track it down just for that. The few goldies (like for instance the choir-back ups in the beginning of Hunter) doesn’t make up for the rigid and weak sound. And it sounds a little too boring and unimaginative as well. Nothing compelling or intriguing, just bland…

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