black metal
Gratitude and Honor (A Tribute Album) is a record by Brazilian black metal project Lumnos, released recently, on April 24. A very extensive album, seventy-six minutes long, the work is an epic and gracious tribute to several black metal artists and groups. With ten tracks, in this particular order, Earthshine (Summoning cover), Dunkelheit (Burzum cover), Suicide (Coldworld cover), Shining Star (Elderwind cover), M20 (Alrakis cover), Spirit (Lustre cover), Coma (Melankoli cover), You're My Only Dream (Annorkoth cover), Through the Woods (Remastered) and Lunar Sights (Remastered), this work by Lumnos is a very competent and extravagant tribute, executed with a deeply dark, elegant and graceful solemnity. With a sinister, yet sophisticated atmosphere, that reinterprets the sound of an undisturbed and singular veracity of splendorous and fantastic imagery, Gratitude and Honor reverberates the best qualities of the genre in a very subtle, yet ostensibly rude and marvelously expansive universe of multiple consciences, where all the sensibilities of harmonies converge to form a more despondent, but vehemently eloquent outlook on the artistry of black metal as a wonderful celebration of the darkness that persists to reveal itself as the most instinctive device of the human nature.
With formidable technical skills and a great intuition to give to each and every track a more distinctive and spontaneous grace of luxurious, but sober grandiloquence – without ever disqualifying or deforming the original and placid beauty of them – Lumnos concedes to this plural and salutary tribute album a precious value, that expands to the exterior levels of his creative sagacity the visible and genuine soul of an omniscient pattern of sensibilities; that certainly qualifies this work as one of the best of its kind ever to be impersonated, simply because the sincere devotion the artist has to these particular tracks – and the impeccable execution that evidently came as a natural result – produced a work of such palatable and imperative beauty. So, even taking into consideration the fact that the work is exceedingly long, it is impossible not to feel fascinated by it. You can simply close your eyes, and embark on a vivid mental journey of imponderable serenity and melancholy, as your thoughts embark through the ages on a solitary itinerary of dark vicissitudes, embraced by the constant shadows of an harmonious rebellion, uncomprehensive to the pure and simple rationalization of the implacable void of life.
With an undertaking and cohesive strength that seems to communicate itself directly to the personal universe of the listener, Gratitude and Honor has a sense of solidarity that revolves around the conscience of an everlasting resignation, that excludes its ambitious narratives of undermining quietness around the ostensibly calm variants that the work deliberately gives, around the corner of each and every one of its gracefully sensational melodies, elaborated at the request of a dying sun that seems to eternally fade inside the realm of undeniably ardent, but always ascendant harmonies.
If you love a more sensible, calm, drowsy, conspicuous and serene work, you will certainly be enchanted with this tribute album by Lumnos. With a very peculiar rereading of exceedingly engraving black metal anthems, this record inserts the genre in a more introspective, personal, flexible and poetic perspective, rearranging in misanthropic and philosophic patterns the pervasive hallucinations of its inherent structural elements, that becomes appropriately sidelined with the more reasonable atmosphere of its aggrandizing sentiments of humanity and splendor.
Wagner
With formidable technical skills and a great intuition to give to each and every track a more distinctive and spontaneous grace of luxurious, but sober grandiloquence – without ever disqualifying or deforming the original and placid beauty of them – Lumnos concedes to this plural and salutary tribute album a precious value, that expands to the exterior levels of his creative sagacity the visible and genuine soul of an omniscient pattern of sensibilities; that certainly qualifies this work as one of the best of its kind ever to be impersonated, simply because the sincere devotion the artist has to these particular tracks – and the impeccable execution that evidently came as a natural result – produced a work of such palatable and imperative beauty. So, even taking into consideration the fact that the work is exceedingly long, it is impossible not to feel fascinated by it. You can simply close your eyes, and embark on a vivid mental journey of imponderable serenity and melancholy, as your thoughts embark through the ages on a solitary itinerary of dark vicissitudes, embraced by the constant shadows of an harmonious rebellion, uncomprehensive to the pure and simple rationalization of the implacable void of life.
With an undertaking and cohesive strength that seems to communicate itself directly to the personal universe of the listener, Gratitude and Honor has a sense of solidarity that revolves around the conscience of an everlasting resignation, that excludes its ambitious narratives of undermining quietness around the ostensibly calm variants that the work deliberately gives, around the corner of each and every one of its gracefully sensational melodies, elaborated at the request of a dying sun that seems to eternally fade inside the realm of undeniably ardent, but always ascendant harmonies.
If you love a more sensible, calm, drowsy, conspicuous and serene work, you will certainly be enchanted with this tribute album by Lumnos. With a very peculiar rereading of exceedingly engraving black metal anthems, this record inserts the genre in a more introspective, personal, flexible and poetic perspective, rearranging in misanthropic and philosophic patterns the pervasive hallucinations of its inherent structural elements, that becomes appropriately sidelined with the more reasonable atmosphere of its aggrandizing sentiments of humanity and splendor.
Wagner
