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Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame
Copyright © 2001 Napalm
1. A New Power Is Rising 04:08
2. South Away 06:04
3. In Hollow Halls Beneath The Fells 08:56
4. Our Foes Shall Fall 07:01
5. The Mountain King's Fall 08:53
6. Runes Of Power 05:51
7. Ashen Cold 06:16
8. Farewell 09:19
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The flowering symphonies of Summoning start with a simple association of a melodic phrase and blossom into short labyrinths of melody, leading passages through a space of dense harmonization to differing conclusions that wield their contrast with the surrounding sound like an argument of philosophers, in which a different conclusion to a familar passage brings a radical change of context hinged on a single note. Harsh vocals in a murmur backgrounded like those of darkambient bands, several voices of keyboard and lavishly overdubbed guitars in hazy distortion meld to form a continuously viscous and oceanic sound in which the listener is a lost vessel traversing unknown geometries. An improvement over their previous effort, "Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame" is a simplified but streamlined process in which the melodies are more studied and weighted toward a discernible conclusion than the somewhat vague directions of past.
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