Altar Of Plagues - Mammal |
Published April 11 2011
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Neptune Is Dead |
| Genre | Black Metal |
J. O'Ceallaigh/D. Condon
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Vocals
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| Tracks | 4 |
James O'Ceallaigh
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Guitar
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| Runningtime | 52 Min. |
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Guitar
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| Label | Candlelight Records |
Dave Condon
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Bass
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| Release | 25 April 2011 |
S. MacAnri
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Drums
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| Country | Ireland |
James O'Ceallaigh
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Keyboard
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| Producer | --- | ||
| Similar artists | Wolves In The Throne Room, Agalloch | ||
Altar Of Plagues certainly doesn't lack ambition to produce some of the more disturbing kind of music known to mankind. On Mammal the Irishmen sure come close. For those of you, dear readers, that have heard Wolves In The Throne Room's The Black Cascade you will feel right at home.
The atmosphere in the songs is deeply atmospheric and haunting with a very big-room ambiance especially when it comes to the vocals. The songs in themselves are very demanding - 4 songs in total with a runningtime checking in at 52 minutes make for very long songs indeed.
The feeling of desperation and despair in the music is what strikes me most - the band is very good at creating the feeling of impending doom. This part of the music I very much enjoy, and the only thing I really dislike is the chanting in the end of When The Sun Drowns In The Ocean, since I don't think that anything folky should be mixed into metal at all.
Mammal is not an album that will end up on my top 10 list
this year, but if you're looking for something original, music that
will give you the chills Mammal certainly does the job.
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6,5 chalices of 10 - Martin |
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