Label:Les Acteurs de l'Ombre Productions
Tracklist:
1.The Vanishing of Matter
2.Eden
3.Third Path
4.The Apprentice
6.The Letter of Loss
7.Sulfur
8.Sutcivni Los
9.Smaragdina
Ten years after their debut (Aequinoctium first demo, in 2015 and a live EP in 2022), Mòr
delivers its first album, Hear the Hour Nearing! via Les Acteurs De L’Ombre.
With Mòr,
on The Vanishing of Matter we
immediately get to the heart of the matter. It's big, stifling black metal. Its
riff goes deep into your head before the break drives the point home with this
raw voice and maybe this is the sing to pay attention of this album
riffs coming from the cold on Eden. Paradise takes hellish turns here. The music is raw and heavy,
and after this the album becomes more atmospheric….you will encounter some little boring parts
The first instrumental Third Path lays the foundations where the bass has fun. A moment of
respite. A waiting period where the listener remains waiting for what will
happen next. Repetitive to the point of alienation as on the second
instrumental Cave of Shadows and its
hypnotic arpeggios.
The
Letter of Loss is quite binary
and obsessive at the beginning: it blasts, it belches before they give us a
very calm, not very boring atmospheric track so that we can regain our senses
before the dizziness comes to take us back into this frantic race.
Sulfur has bursts of riffs making us think of the early
hours of Immortal… a forced, Spartan march not afraid to rehash the same
nauseating riff.
Same thing with Sutcivni
Los, the good thing about Mòr is
that it’s difficult to pigeonhole them into black metal. Their music is subject
to many influences: it’s modern, daring with a lot of risk-taking ranging from
old school black metal……
the aggressive The Apprentice and his very “core”
voice. No respite, the sound is anchored in old school but the excruciating
voice opens towards more modernity with more classic breaks.
in any case I think you can add Hear The Hour Nearing! to your collection
