Mòr - Hear The Hour Nearing! (2024)

 

Label:Les Acteurs de l'Ombre Productions

Tracklist:

1.The Vanishing of Matter           

2.Eden               

3.Third Path                

4.The Apprentice                

5.Cave of Shadows            

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

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Slave One – Disclosed Dioptric Principles (2016)

Label: Dolorem Records

Tracklist:

1.Deus Otiosus       

2.The Antikythera Mechanism    

3.Obsidian Protocol Achievement          

4.For Shiva Whispered the Universe                

5.Aeon Dissonance          

6.Liquid Transcendental Echoes                       

7.Degenesis       

     

At first I underestimated this album , The rhythm and the fusion sound of other musical style (it’s not acceptable like the long shity intro of track 5 Aeon Dissonance and track 7 Degenesis ) and progressive death metal riffs thing that gave me bad impression and other important thing in this album It’s lacks of brutality and old-school atmosphere approach .

………. Fortunately some beers help me to understand Disclosed Dioptric Principles because a great technical dose slaps me to my face (maybe the thing who save Disclosed Dioptric Principles) without forgetting the cover art of this album it’s fit perfectly with the concept . Its a nice portion of the mythological art perfectly reflects what the album is about. It has a metaphysical /mythological aspect  with a scientific approach…………………….. The technicality of the progressiveness of the multiple notes are well done .

Slave One use the methodology of majority of the new bands they do possess , which means modern death metal sound perfectly process and recorded , Drumming very attracted by drum triggers It allows to have gained great attention , riffs affected and accelerate, leads and solo well felt as well as precise and correct double-pedal shots, but all this does not come out of the ordinary …………… It's a bit what jeff walker said about modern death metal “people have been tolerating a kind of substandard product”

Slave one remind me two great names Necrophagist and Obscura but if you compare Necrophagist don’t miss brutality ….in brief Necrophagist brutal death metal a pure death metal followed with a great dose of technical brutality Obscura miss a lot the brutality who Necrophagist get but the great likeness is the technical playing except that’s more prog , so we can say in brief it’s progressive technical death metal the case of Slave one , in any case I think , you should have " Disclosed Dioptric Principles " in your collection if you want.

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