REVIEW: NARGATHROND - FOR WE BLESSED THIS WORLD WITH PLAGUES

 

NARGATHROND - FOR WE BLESSED THIS WORLD WITH PLAGUES (War is Imminent Productions, 2002)

Produced by Nargathrond

Recorded at CDM Records Studio

Cover Art by Abián

Tracks: 1- Nocturnal Everlusting, 2- For We Blessed this World With Plagues, 3- Farewell to the Flesh, 4- The Season Shaped in Black, 5- As I Gave You Birth, 6- Death is Tender, 7- The Serpent and the Snake, 8- Deep Beneath, 9- Cast Away Your Dreams, 10- Silver Ghost, 11- Winter Comes This Autumn, 12- Let My Dreams Become Your Nightmares

This is a weird band. And this is not an extremely complex band or experimental one. In fact, the difficult thing here is to label their music...I can say that is heavy....but this guys use a lot of rocking riffs and the vocals are more brutal and there are plenty of keyboards and melodies. Yes, they don´t fit in death metal, not in black metal, not in heavy or power metal...maybe they are closer in some parts to gothic metal but they are much much heavier. Well, lets say that Nargathrond has heavy guitars (which I would like them to mix louder...and maybe add another guitar to give more bottom end to the music) and a powerful vocalist that brings to my mind in some parts to Moonspell´s Fernando Ribeiro (Wolfheart era) even if he sings in a completely different way. They also have clean parts like in "The Season Shaped in Black" which are climatic and interact well with the keyboards.The band is a trio and I think they will find a lot of interesting things to do adding a second guitarist who can add a lot of heaviness to the band.

Favorite tracks: "Farewell to the Flesh", "...As I Gave you Birth" and "Winter Comes this Autumn

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