Title: Amaterasu Shiroi
Artist: Eldar
Genre: Industrial / Martial / Ambient
Release Date: 10th May 2010
Label: Caustic Records
Album Review
Since their inception in the early post-millennial years, ELDAR have released wave after wave of their brand of Martial/Neo-classical ambience. ‘Amaterasu Shiroi’ marks the band’s ninth release since 2004’s split EP with BELAUR. This latest offering features predominantly re-recorded tracks from their ‘Ama Terasu’ and ‘Solve Et Coagula’ albums, previously released through Skull Line. The songs have been dismantled and re-constructed with a whole new sounding album as the end result. The album has completely re-embellished the original recordings with new instruments, samples, and voices which makes for a much more well-rounded release than its formative Martial/Ambient predecessors. The music is a dark, poetic ambience that owes as much to tribal and classical music as it does to industrial and ambient. The symphonic embellishments over core drones and melodic keys court the beautiful and the bestial within the mind.
‘Baraeco Sin Eske’ opens the album in true martial style with apocalyptic beats over classical samples and growling vocals. ‘Arconi Radgost Inda’ samples monastic vocals as its core drone before adding hard beats, spacey electronics and female vocals that are done in a way reminiscent of early LAIBACH tracks such as ‘Brat Moj’ and ‘Drazava’, whereas ‘Yaincoa Flintz Egis’ feels more accessibly industrial with its apocalyptic sound, propelled by an underlying groove. ‘Tagotis Ilia Isgen’ is an understated ambient electronic-based track with samples mixed low into the mix for a disconnected feeling. ‘Dibus Deabus Deseri’ revisits the LAIBACH sound with its contrast of slick, cinematic industrial with harsh authoritarian vocals. ‘Vagadonnaego Adar Gens’ is harsh post-industrial droning ambience that evokes the more nightmarish side of the Cold Meat Industries back catalogue.
‘Endouelico Nebo Kar’ returns to the apocalyptic martial sounds for another aggressive track. ‘Ora Sule Elake’ is another slice of understated nightmarish ambience in the same vein as ‘Tagotis Ilia Isgen’. The penultimate track ‘Ace Ebire Erun’ slowly builds from sparse ambient drones into a full-on martial industrial barrage, before fading back into the low synth drones. The final track on the album ‘Elias Kus il’ is the most relaxing song, if still somewhat malevolent in feel which firmly rounds this offering off.
Fans of bands such as LAIBACH, TOROIDH, A CHALLENGE OF HONOUR, and THE PROTAGONIST will certainly want to give this a listen, as will anyone remotely interested in neo-classical ambience by way of totalitarian martial.
Tracklist
01. Baraeco Sin Eske
02. Arconi Radgost Inda
03. Yaincoa Flintz Egis
04. Tagotis Ilia Isgen
05. Dibus Deabus Deseri
06. Vagadonnaego Adar Gens
07. Endouelico Nebo Kar
08. Ora Sule Elake
09. Ace Ebire Erun
10. Elias Kus il
Line-up
Marc Merinee
Merce Spica
Website
http://www.eldarband.com/ / http://www.myspace.com/eldarmerinee
Cover Picture
Rating
Music: 8
Sound: 7
Extras: -
Total: 7.5 / 10
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