black metal / neo-folk
La Dama Del Alba is an album by a black metal/ neo-folk Puerto Rican musician, better known by the alias of Falgar. Originally released digitally on 15 April 2013, the album will be rereleased – this time in a physical format – on November 16, by independent record label Aeternitas Tenebrarum. Fifty two minutes long, the record has nine songs – Invocación, La dama del alba, Renacimiento, Seguiré, Fango y frío, Laberintos, Artemisa, The Whispers of Diana and Her Sacred Dwelling – the last two being additional bonus tracks. Heavily influenced by golden era Burzum albums, something pointed out by the record label itself, La Dama Del Alba presents us with what I describe as “baroque” black metal: a more philosophic, intuitive, serene and folkloric subgenre, characterized by melancholic, pungent, sensible and preferably stable, almost monotonous atmospheres, that doesn’t appeal too drastically to despair or obliteration. Definitely, this album presents a technical, graceful and mature sound – reminiscent of medieval tales and knightly horizons of lost splendor –, that discreetly embraces the harmonies with esoteric neo-folk elements.
The style present on this album follows precisely these qualities. The songs have very expansive and latent atmospheres, and the melodies are engraved by guitar lines that never leaves the surreal melancholy of its peripheral anatomy. There are not great changes of harmonies or rhythmic tonalities; you feel yourself traveling through a hazy forest, accompanied by a sound whose urgencies rely on the grace of its vivid sonorous consistencies, that are quite simple, though splendidly dramatic, and to a certain degree, unequivocally lugubrious.
A marvelous aggrandizing album that rescues some ghostly resonances of a lost past, La Dama Del Alba is quite a majestic and genuine work of art. The sound is effectively dense and primordially grievous, and the artist highlights a stylish and gracious security that vividly circumnavigates the objectivity of his dynamic and proficient creative musical layouts, that sometimes are discreetly sensible and intuitive. A work that definitely achieves the finest degree of primordial beauty, this album deserves to be publicized as a majestic and superior achievement of neo-folk medieval black metal.
A superb and splendorous state of the art work that gets better and better as the record keeps playing, La Dama Del Alba is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful albums that I have heard in the genre. Sensible, original, fearlessly creative and proverbially lucid, it’s quintessential to everyone that loves a genuine and authorial approach to avant-garde subgenres of BM.
Wagner
The style present on this album follows precisely these qualities. The songs have very expansive and latent atmospheres, and the melodies are engraved by guitar lines that never leaves the surreal melancholy of its peripheral anatomy. There are not great changes of harmonies or rhythmic tonalities; you feel yourself traveling through a hazy forest, accompanied by a sound whose urgencies rely on the grace of its vivid sonorous consistencies, that are quite simple, though splendidly dramatic, and to a certain degree, unequivocally lugubrious.
A marvelous aggrandizing album that rescues some ghostly resonances of a lost past, La Dama Del Alba is quite a majestic and genuine work of art. The sound is effectively dense and primordially grievous, and the artist highlights a stylish and gracious security that vividly circumnavigates the objectivity of his dynamic and proficient creative musical layouts, that sometimes are discreetly sensible and intuitive. A work that definitely achieves the finest degree of primordial beauty, this album deserves to be publicized as a majestic and superior achievement of neo-folk medieval black metal.
A superb and splendorous state of the art work that gets better and better as the record keeps playing, La Dama Del Alba is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful albums that I have heard in the genre. Sensible, original, fearlessly creative and proverbially lucid, it’s quintessential to everyone that loves a genuine and authorial approach to avant-garde subgenres of BM.
Wagner
