REVIEW: MORGUL - SKETCH OF SUPPOSED MURDERER

 

MORGUL - SKETCH OF SUPPOSED MURDERER (Century Media - 2001): Jack D. Ripper is a strange character and is the only member behind Morgul´s music (the band started as a duo in the early nineties). I think I can define his music as being dark metal with great keyboard orchestration, multiplicity of vocals (clean, high pitched screams, etc.) He introduces the album with the song "Violent Perfect Illusions" with a keyboard melody, orchestration and accentuation done perfectly. What I liked a lot of this Cd is the mixture of standard death metal with all this classical music passages and eastern and folk melodies. The originality is omniprescent in this CD and he dares to do a Kiss cover (that could be a sacrilege for some death/black metal close-minded fans) "She" (I think here the sound is not as good as in the rest of the album maybe is because the guitar riffs and keyboard bases are not as dense as in the other songs) in a very strange version. There are also some pieces with great piano and keyboards like for example "Truth, Liars and Dead Flesh" that for me is the darker song on the CD (the piano melody remembers me of some english horror movies soundtrack from the sixties). My favorite songs: "Of Murder and Misfortune" (with some blast beats than by an electronic drum), "Truth, Liar and Dead Flesh" and "Once Again" (an industrial/death/black experiment). Contact: www.centurymedia.com and http://home.no.net/morgul