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Post by andrewwerdna on Feb 13, 2020 11:42:55 GMT -5
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Post by skirmisher on Feb 14, 2020 10:16:30 GMT -5
Wow. This is great. It's too clean and polished for my tastes but the arrangements sure sound epic. You guys were wondering if there was anything much like Summoning back in the day. Bachus from Belarus came around the Dol Guldur / Stronghold era but I think it was one of the closest relatives to Summoning. I think this demo is very good. The way the bass drums just crushes the shit out of that compressor is great! |
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Post by crystallogic13 on Feb 14, 2020 16:11:56 GMT -5
Great find man, endless thanx and please keep us informed of such great discoveries, I'm gonna listen it in an appropriate moment, my sword by my side  Regards and many thanx!! |
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Post by skirmisher on Feb 15, 2020 8:29:45 GMT -5
Another good early band reminiscent of older Summoning. If I'm not mistaken they are also Austrian and there's even a Summoning cover song on this one.
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Post by leyland on Aug 17, 2020 7:39:51 GMT -5
When speaking of summoning, I'm comletely biased, cause they made very strong imprint in my memory when I was a kid. My first album I ever heard was Oathbound, and he still my favourite. As I just wanted to post SOMETHING here, I'll leave here Minas Morgul demo, maybe someone never heard it before. It's very interesting to listen to this somehow.
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Post by dungeonsynthzine on Aug 18, 2020 7:02:12 GMT -5
This demo is the more interesting taking into consideration the fact that it has no guitars and vocals, and is thus 100% DS.
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Post by crystallogic13 on Aug 12, 2022 2:28:19 GMT -5
I'll check Summoning out. I can't stand the gyms taste in music. Nothing about it is inspiring at all, which is, in my opinion, the highest providence an artist can strive to manifest. But that music, I just find it genuinely repulsive, it's so clean and safe and commercial. It is, all of it, the music of modernity, which I hate so much. I can't work out to that. So headphones are a must. They're very keyboard-fantasy atmospheric black metal, but they are generally considered one of the progenitors of the dungeon synth style. Flammifer, a track from one of their recent albums, Old Mornings Dawn, is pretty fuckin inspiring. I could squat to it for sure. replying in this thread since the other one got off-topic and you're talking about beloved Summoning : with such a huge great backlog Summoning have it's a battle to check which songs are most "inspiring" but for, I'd choose of course Caradhras, a perfect success in combining the lyrical side (about Mountains) and the actual music being feeling like you're on top of one of the tallest mountains or, your whole trek/journey to it... In general I think Old Morning's Dawn was not that appreciated but it also as the entire of their discography up at the top, next to the other masterpieces... |
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Post by Texas Dungeon Synth on Aug 12, 2022 16:09:31 GMT -5
They're very keyboard-fantasy atmospheric black metal, but they are generally considered one of the progenitors of the dungeon synth style. Flammifer, a track from one of their recent albums, Old Mornings Dawn, is pretty fuckin inspiring. I could squat to it for sure. replying in this thread since the other one got off-topic and you're talking about beloved Summoning : with such a huge great backlog Summoning have it's a battle to check which songs are most "inspiring" but for, I'd choose of course Caradhras, a perfect success in combining the lyrical side (about Mountains) and the actual music being feeling like you're on top of one of the tallest mountains or, your whole trek/journey to it... In general I think Old Morning's Dawn was not that appreciated but it also as the entire of their discography up at the top, next to the other masterpieces... I am an old soul of a Summoning fan, been listening since I first heard Stronghold in, I believe, 2003 or so, and I typically never like an artist's later-life releases after I've been a fan for a while, but Old Mornings Dawn absolutely held up to the rest of their catalog. Honestly it eclipses much of it. Just a great, well-made album, a true refining of their sound. If the thread is getting revived, I've got to mention my softest of soft spots for the Nightshade Forests EP, particularly Kortirion among the Trees. Such a unique, mystic atmosphere on that one. There's been nights where I've just left it on repeat for hours haha. |
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Post by crystallogic13 on Aug 12, 2022 23:32:00 GMT -5
Yeah man, totally agreed on Nightshade Forests and its atmosphere as each of their release as they're all emitting a unique atmosphere of their own... My Summoning gateway was Dol Goldur but Stronghold also is up there with as many countless listens and great times.. Very tough to choose.. Not enough great words for Summoning can do them justice imho, always nice to see them dear in metal and of course in dungeon synth crowds  ... It's been some years since the last now again so I hope they might release at least another LP before our time is past.. |
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Post by cryptzzz on Aug 19, 2022 17:22:00 GMT -5
One of the greatest bands in existence, at least in my book I still cannot choose between Old Mornings Dawn and Dol Guldur, both are amazing in their own ways, with my favourite tracks being probably The White Tower (the main melody always cracks me) and Kôr (absolutely mesmerizing, just like the whole album). Dol Guldur is magickal in how they chose some sounds. Sounds almost otherwordly, weird. It's probably my favourite when it comes to compositions, very stable. Old Mornings however has some of the most beautiful tracks the band made, especialy the melodies are so strong here. |
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Post by crystallogic13 on Aug 25, 2022 4:47:16 GMT -5
cryptzzz and in my and others book I would add!! My personal struggle to choose the best, already tough in such a great discography, probably ends up between Dol Goldur and Stronghold.. Stronghold is dark and bleak but in a very picture-sque way, an album that has held me strong a thousand times, but on the other hand Dol Goldur is more epic and evokes all LotR imaginery and magic... On one hand you have an anthem like "A Distant Flame Before the Sun" where music combined with changed lyrics of LotR poem make for a song I'd love to listen before I die and again on the other you have "Kyr" which with its music and lyrics makes it the first song I listen in general every time I visit my home village which as years go by gets more desert... And all other songs of each album, such two masterpieces....
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Post by Texas Dungeon Synth on Aug 25, 2022 10:16:53 GMT -5
Loud Music of the Sky off Stronghold is actually the very first Summoning track I heard, and I don't know whether it's that factor or not but Stronghold has always remained the one I've gone back to the most. It has a much more minimalistic, solitary sound than the rest, that is perfect for late night listening.
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Regards and many thanx!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGukgJ2-0OI
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