Limbonic Art

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Limbonic Art
General information
origin Sandefjord , Norway
Genre (s) Black metal
founding 1993, 2006
resolution 2003
Founding members
Daemon (Vidar Jensen)
Guitar, backing vocals,
keyboard
Morfeus (Krister Dreyer)
Singing
(on Moon in the Scorpio
and In Abhorrence Dementia )
 Morgana (Anne Aasebø)
Singing
(on In Abhorrence Dementia )
 Elizbeth F.
Current occupation
Vocals, guitar, keyboard
 Daemon (Vidar Jensen)

Limbonic Art ( English 'Limbonische Kunst', from Latin Limbus ) is a black metal band from Sandefjord , Norway .

history

Limbonic Art was founded in 1993 and for a short time consisted of a four-person cast. When they split up due to musical differences, only Daemon (Vidar Jensen) remained, who continued the band with Morfeus (Krister Dreyer) and forms its core with him. Daemon took on lead vocals, guitars and lyrics, while Morfeus was responsible for electronics, lead guitars and backing vocals.

In 1996 Samoth of Emperor and Nocturnal Art Productions offered the band a recording deal after hearing their material. It stayed there until it was dissolved. In April 1996 Limbonic Art recorded a promotional tape and released it on Nocturnal Art Productions. An album was also announced that would be released there later this year. Her debut album Moon in the Scorpio came out in the fall . In 1997 Limbonic Art toured Emperor and released the second album, which was recorded in a friend's studio in their hometown, as the group found the atmosphere at work in the previous studio awful.

Due to the demand for the promo recordings, Limbonic Art re-recorded the songs on them and brought them out in 1998 on Epitome of Illusions . In 1999 Ad noctum - Dynasty of Death followed , the last album with Morfeus' then girlfriend Morgana. After that, no further albums were released until 2002. A box set followed in 2000 and 2001, and in 2001 a contribution to Originators of the Northern Darkness - A Tribute to Mayhem . In 2002 The Ultimate Death Worship came out, on which Attila Csihar took part. In 2003, Limbonic Art disbanded as the members mainly focused on other things. Morfeus was active with Dimension F3H, Daemon with Sarcoma Inc. and the vocals on the debut of Samoth's band Zyklon .

From winter / spring 2006 Morfeus and Daemon had more contact again, and on June 6, 2006 (a game with the number 666 ) the reunion Limbonic Arts was announced. Legacy of Evil was released in 2007 , also by Nocturnal Art Productions. Morfeus ruled out new appearances.

The band is now a one-man project by Daemon, who also composed and recorded the current album Phantasmagoria single- handedly.

style

Limbonic Arts' first tape only hinted at their own approach to symphonic black metal, according to Nocturnal Art Productions. The 1996 promo cassette itself has "quite poor and chaotic sound quality" according to the group itself, as it was recorded on a home studio recorder, but should not give the listener a definitive picture of the Limbonic Arts soundscapes, but rather some insight into what is going on expected. In Abhorrence Dementia , according to Aedd.Gynvael of Mortem Zine, “is definitely 'more dysfunctional '” than the debut, to which Morfeus replied that he did not think anyone had ever called Limbonic Art sane and that it was probably a natural development.

Aedd.Gynvael described Ad noctum - Dynasty of Death as a milestone in the history of Limbonic Arts. The guitars came to the fore here over the keyboards and aggression over the melancholy; it was her main intention to introduce a certain aggression into this work, as Morfeus wrote. According to Aedd.Gynvael, the album draws a thick line on their early years and still influences the sound of the group. Lyrically, Limbonic Art moved from “space melancholy and madness to Egyptian culture and the cult of death”.

The following album The Ultimate Death Worship describes Jason Ankeny of Allmusic as "wild". It contains elements from Thrash Metal and Death Metal and is referred to by Aedd.Gynvael as their "least idiomatic album" which lacked many of the classic Limbonic art components. Morfeus called it the Limbonic Art album, which he probably disliked; the songs are good, but he is not satisfied with the production. Ankeny's colleague John Serba believes that the breakup of Emperors has left a void in the black metal scene and it is no surprise that Limbonic Art is making an effort to fill that void. The album, however, offers "enough convincingly strange avant-garde horror to stand on its own overgrown, pair of feet". It represents the "ugly, pockmarked side of symphonic Black Metal" and in the songs Suicide Commando and Interstellar Overdrive it combines spoken interludes and film music elements with blast beats and a guitar sound reminiscent of a swarm of locusts; the arrangement of Towards the Oblivion of Dreams is like a labyrinth.

The first post-reunion album, Legacy of Evil , is heavier and more powerful than their older recordings, according to Allmusic's Alex Henderson , but Limbonic Art is still relevant to symphonic Black Metal and still prefers an approach that is “more melodic, complex and more nuanced than harsher black metal artists like Marduk and Gorgoroth ”. Legacy of Evil is "slightly uneven", but most of the material is respectable, but not spectacular. The keyboards were used less prominently than on previous releases. According to Henderson, Phantasmagoria , the first single-handedly devised recording by Daemon, is possibly Limbonic Arts' heaviest album to date. It is still melodic and still has the symphonic element, but is not as polished as Dimmu Borgir or Cradle of Filth . The album strives “for nuance as well as for murderous urgency”. Phantasmagoria , like Legacy of Evil , is slightly inconsistent. For the most part, however, the disc is engaging, and Limbonic Arts' use of a drum computer does not prevent it from inflicting wounds and abrasions.

Discography

  • 1995: Promo Rehearsal '95 (Promo)
  • 1996: Promotion Tape (Promo)
  • 1996: Moon in the Scorpio
  • 1997: In Abhorrence Dementia
  • 1998: Epitome of Illusions
  • 1999: Ad noctum - Dynasty of Death
  • 2000: Chronicles of Limbo (Box)
  • 2001: Limbonic Art volume 1-4 (box)
  • 2001: De mysteriis Dom Sathanas on Originators of the Northern Darkness - A Tribute to Mayhem
  • 2002: The Ultimate Death Worship
  • 2007: Legacy of Evil
  • 2009: 1995-1996 (Best of)
  • 2010: 1996 (Best of)
  • 2010: Phantasmagoria
  • 2017: Specter Abysm

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Biography. Nocturnal Art Productions, accessed December 31, 2014 .
  2. ↑ a b c Jason Ankeny: Biography. Allmusic , accessed December 31, 2014 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Aedd.Gynvael: Interview with Limbonic Art. Mortem Zine, November 14, 2007, archived from the original on May 9, 2008 ; accessed on September 12, 2014 (English).
  4. ↑ a b c Limbonic Art: Promotion Tape . Nocturnal Art Productions, 1996.
  5. ↑ John Serba: The Ultimate Death Worship - Limbonic Art. Allmusic, accessed on December 31, 2014 (English).
  6. ↑ Alex Henderson: A Legacy of Evil - Limbonic Art. Allmusic, accessed December 31, 2014 (English).
  7. ↑ Alex Henderson: Phantasmagoria - Limbonic Art. Allmusic, accessed on January 1, 2015 (English).