For those
who aren’t familiar with Nemrud, I should start this post by saying that they
are a Heavy/Psychedelic/Space Rock band from Turkey. Although they have many Progressive
Rock elements in their music, they are definitely not a Progressive Rock
band.
Their
discography consists of 3 studio albums so far, all of them really good and interesting
ones. First came ‘Journey of the Shaman’ in 2010, 3 years later they released ‘Ritual’,
and a few months ago their latest album named as ‘Nemrud’. All 3 albums, share
some common characteristics, such as the long hypnotizing compositions, (including
big instrumental passages in each one of them), and the few number of songs included
in each of their albums .‘Journey of the Shaman’ was including just 3 songs,
which were actually the 3 parts of one big song, with the shortest one being 12
minutes long. ‘Ritual’ was including 4 songs, with two of them being over 10
minutes long.
As you can understand, ‘Nemrud’ couldn’t be very different. It
includes 4 tracks, all of them over 11 minutes long, but there is a special (or
limited) edition as well, which is including 2 of the album’s songs in
“Radio edit” versions. This is something really good and helpful, especially for people
who are involved with radio stations. (Like myself for example). These 2 songs
are’ God of the Mountain’ and the really beautiful ‘Forsaken Throne’.
Although
their style in more or less the same like in their previous albums, I dare say
that this album sounds more “mature” more “sophisticated” and it seems as the
band members improved their technique and gained more confidence in comparison with
the previous albums.The only "weak" spot I found is the vocals, but it is something you get used to and stops bothering you after a couple of listenings.
I am
not going to write anything about each song separately, because when I am
playing the album I listened to it as a whole, but I should mention that the closing
song ‘Forsaken Throne’ is my favourite one. (In both versions). (Also Euphrates
is a fantastic tune).
The
important thing is that with each listening the album “grows” in you. You start
noticing more and more details and musical turns that you haven’t noticed
before, and that is surely something we should congratulate the band for,
because it means that these guys payed a lot of attention in the details, and
did a really good job.
I believe
that this is an album worth to become more famous and more people should listen
to it. Nemrud is a good band which shows significant improvement with every new
release.
My rating would be:
3.5 out of 5.0 stars
By clicking
on the following link you will be able to listen to the song ‘Euphrates’ just
to get an idea.
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