Notes:
A Dark Forgotten Past was released on December 1 2017 through Northern Silence Productions.
Personnel:
Mathias Hemmingby – everything
Text by Herjann
[email protected]
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It is a euphemism to define this band atmospheric. Eldamar is a one-man band from Askim, Norway, formed by Mathias Hemmingby in 2015; after the debut album The Force of the Ancient Land in 2016, Eldamar has released a split, an EP, and finally the follow-up to the first album: A Dark Forgotten Past. First of all, I would like to remark that the images of the covers of Eldamar's releases are paintings by American-German painter Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) depicting an enchanted and dream-like nature, which is more than a hint to the themes treated by Mathias. As for the music, the situation is not very different because Mathias, more or less, blends the same ingredients all the time and as a result his releases are all quite similar: dreamy riffs on a synth background and a fairy female voice creates the melody. Unfortunately, the effect is cloying, mannerist and even mawkish, not to mention the repetitiveness: the songs of all the releases sound alike and I find it hard to see any substantial difference between them; even finding innovations in the second album seems a challenging feat. But perhaps your trained ear will be able to distinguish the songs!
Notes: A Dark Forgotten Past was released on December 1 2017 through Northern Silence Productions. Personnel: Mathias Hemmingby – everything Text by Herjann [email protected]
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chest
11/10/2019 00:36:55
Very good!!!!!!!!
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