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Hellveto - In The Glory Of Heroes

Published March 02 2007


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=Staff's pick

One Day From Medieval
In The Glory Of Heroes
Baltic Tale
Last Moments
In The Depth Of Red Sky
Thousand Years Of Slavery
My Hymn From Carpathian Mountains


Genre Black Metal
L.O.N.
Vocals
Tracks 7
L.O.N.
Guitar
Runningtime 40 Min.
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Guitar
Label Pulverised Records
L.O.N.
Bass
Release 31 Oct. 2006
L.O.N.
Drums
Country Poland
L.O.N.
Keyboard
Similar artists Drudkh

The polish one man army Hellveto's latest release In The Glory Of Heroes could just as well be called an orgy in melancholy and misery. In The Glory Of Heroes, released by Pulverised Records, is a taste of pagan black metal with all the following ingredients. Long songs with sections of quite monotone riffing and arrangements together with clean acoustic passages.

I don't know where to start but I'll try, Hellveto is a one man band founded and engineered by L.O.N. By reading the impressive release catalogue from the band I guess that the man behind the mystic initials or alias or whatever must have been quite busy doing demos, promos and albums since the start in 1995. Sad is the fact that you don't really hear it on In The Glory Of Heroes.

The best thing about this album are the great arrangements with acoustic parts, but I don't bow to the dark one and buy albums dedicated to him for some acoustic well sounding guitars. I seek a feeling of falling into the fiery flames of hell or something else appropriate and connected to the music, but when I listen to Hellveto I don't feel anything. Lack of intensity, aggression and something that at least could be somewhere near a rebellion makes this album quite harmless.

The production is bad with a sound that are way off my taste. I buy the concept of primitive and raw black metal but unfortunately In The Glory Of Heroes is neither of it. The vocals do sometimes sound ok and convincing in its raspy agony but the music are way too mediocre for my taste. Perhaps this album will appeal to some fans of Bathory, Drudkh or Xasthur but only temporarily.

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Vocals
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Summary



3 chalices of 10 - Tim


Related links:

www.myspace.com/hellveto