Manes "Be All End All"

Country: Norway
Sub Genre: Art Rock, Electronica, Trip Hop
Label: Debemur Morti Productions
Format: CD, vinyl, digital
Release date: October 10, 2014
Tracklist: 

1. A Deathpact Most Imminent - 05:08
2. Ars Moriendi (The Lower Crown) - 03:42
3. A Safe Place In The Unsafe - 04:06
4. Blanket Of Ashes - 03:29
5. Broken Fire - 03:51
6. Free As In Free To Leave - 03:31
7. Name The Serpent - 05:32
8. The Nature And Function Of Sacrifice - 05:17
9. Turn The Streams - 04:21

Line-up: 
Tor-Helge Skei - Guitars, Keyboards, Programming
Torstein Parelius - Bass
Rune Hoemsnes (The 3rd and the Mortal) - Drums, Percussions
Eivind Fjoseide (Atrox) - Guitars
   With
Asgeir Hatlen
Rune Folgerø (Atrox)
Morten Schrøder

Description/Reviews: 

So what exactly is this album? A very curious hybrid of genres, but black metal is most definitely not one of them. From opening track "A Deathpact Most Imminent," you're introduced to this rather relaxed and roomy clean guitar groove, draped in space and accompanied by sombre vocal lines. It immediately put me to mind of the atmosphere of doom metal bands such as Warning and 40 Watt Sun, without the distortion. What made it a rather unique first few minutes was the little bits and pieces that followed: the rather nicely harmonized guitar riffs, fuzzy synth bass and complex drum sequences that kept building on top of each other in a post-rock fashion. Kind of curious, but I felt like it moved me in some way.
It felt like there was something there that I couldn't quite put my finger on, so pressing onto track 2, something I could only describe as "the essence of '80s post-punk" kind of started coming through. The track in question, "Ars Moriendi," has two distinct moods, but they both overlap in strange ways: one was the heavy, groovy, tension-building electronic part and the other being the minor key, Killing Joke-esque spacious verses. Strangely, this is also the rare instance where there's something even remotely like a typical black metal melody/chord progression, it makes the song rather dark compared to the first.

 Read the full review by Joseph Quigley at ultimate-guitar.com

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