Eldamar

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Eldamar
General information
origin Norway
Genre (s) Black metal
founding 2015
Current occupation
Mathias Hemmingby

Eldamar is a Norwegian black metal band founded in 2015 by Mathias Hemmingby. The project is named after "Eldamar", a home of the elves in JRR Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth .

history

Just one year after Eldamar's official founding, the debut album The Force of the Ancient Land was released in 2016 by Northern Silence Productions in CD and LP formats . For the MC recorded Nebular Winter Productions responsible. Mathias Hemmingby played all the instruments himself.

The artist remained loyal to his record company and released his second work A Dark Forgotten Past on CD and LP in 2017 .

style

Eldamar plays Atmospheric Black Metal . For this u. a. a "harsh voice", "brutal guitar playing" and "frenzied drums" combined with a "playful synthesizer".

As references are u. a. Called Luster and Summoning .

reception

The debut album shows “ some of the best and worst elements that atmospheric black metal has to offer ” ( English “ some of the best and worst elements that the atmospheric black metal genre has to offer ” ), it said in a review. The quality of the production was positively emphasized in this context, while the songwriting was identified as a weak point. Elsewhere, the first work came off better in the core. The only criticism was that the artist had "dragged out the album a little too much" and that the listener "no longer perceived and followed everything as it was supposed to be".

In the case of the second work, the “most serious disruptive factor” was named as “widespread wordless female singing”. It was also critically emphasized that after the keyboard the "remaining instrumentation [...] leaves something to be desired". Even if the debut is preferable, Eldamar should "not be written off" because "the project is simply too interesting and promising" for that.

Discography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Jennifer Lipp: ELDAMAR - The Force Of The Ancient Land Review. In: metal.de. May 8, 2016, accessed November 3, 2019 .
  2. ^ A b Daniel Müller: ELDAMAR-THE FORCE OF THE ANCIENT LAND. In: crossfire-metal.de. Retrieved November 3, 2019 .
  3. ^ Meters: Eldamar - The Force Of The Ancient Land review. In: metalstorm.net. May 6, 2017, accessed November 3, 2019 .
  4. ^ Stephan Rajchl: Eldamar - A Dark Forgotten Past • Review. In: metal1.info. December 2, 2017, accessed November 3, 2019 .