Welcome to Samhain
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| Studio album by Morrigan | ||||
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2006 |
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December 2005, January 2006 |
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| Label (s) | Undercover Records | |||
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Format (s) |
CD, LP |
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
45 m 40 s |
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Welcome to Samhain is the fifth album by the German pagan metal band Morrigan . It was released by Undercover Records in 2006.
Emergence
The album was recorded and mixed in December 2005 and January 2006 in the Halls of Manannan by the band themselves and mastered in the Rape of Harmonies by Angel of Doom. Belive [sic!] In Eternity was formed in 1993 by the band Mayhemic Truth , in which Beliar and Balor played before Morrigan was founded, and remained unreleased until the release of Welcome to Samhain .
Track list
- We Are Possessed - 1:50
- The Eye of Despair - 4:31
- Welcome to Samhain - 5:12 am
- Bastard and Bitch - 3:21
- Cranking Battleharps - 3:40
- Life, Death and the Here After - 7:37
- Belive in Eternity ( Mayhemic Truth Cover) - 5:42
- Armor of Honor - 4:09
- Roaring Warlike and Victious - 5:39
- Poch Mo Hoine - 3:59
layout
The dark cover shows a flat landscape with a dolmen and a few stones, staring eyes in the background. The booklet contains a picture of the musicians in a Celtic cemetery and a greeting list on which right-wing extremist bands such as Totenburg and Absurd as well as their associated labels such as Nebelfee Klangwerke and WTC Productions are greeted.
Music genre
While the band's music became increasingly epic and less black-metal- heavy with each release , Welcome to Samhain was labeled as an album tending more towards its roots on the promotion slip . The atmosphere is created by “dense and imaginative arrangements” and is “favored” by the reverberation produced, and the bass “still favors the dark mood that ensnares the music”.
The album begins with We Are Possessed , “a nearly two-minute unison, consisting of a collage of groans, groans, groans and other infernal voices. Quite atmospheric, but maybe a little long. ”The first real song, The Eye of Despair , starts with roaring laughter, followed by quick drumming and black / thrash metal riffing similar to the earlier Mayhemic Truth track. After about two minutes, the song is interrupted by an atmospheric passage, “but without letting the piece lose its heaviness”, and after this goes back to the previous style. The title song is “much more epic”, with chorals underlaid by croaks and dominant, echoing drums. Bastard and Bitch is faster and thrashy again, the Interlude Cranking Battleharps "sounds similar to the unison, there is coughing, groaning, laughing, groaning and moaning and a big gong or bell sounds in the background." With Life, Death and the Here After chorales and croaks alternate, there is also clear, emotional singing. This is followed by the Mayhemic truth cover Belive [sic!] In Eternity , "which combines epic and hardness and sounds beautifully straight from the speakers", and Armor of Honor , which is played quickly and aggressively apart from a few calm and melancholy passages . Roaring Warlike and Victious is more epic again, the final Poch Mo Hoine is more aggressive again.
Reviews
According to Hendrik Brinkmann from Metal1.info, Welcome to Samhain shows "the old strengths of their predecessor band", which are "efficiently combined with the newer elements". The hardness and the simple, but direct song structures of Mayhemic Truth, the “dirty” Thrash riffing, the “clattering” drums are “in such a perfect symbiosis” with the “wide guitar walls”, the hymn, the “heroic Chorales [n] ”and the epic structure“ that it is a real celebration of joy. In addition, a production that simply couldn't be more suitable. ”The only thing to complain about was the“ extra-long intermediate piece ” Cranking Battleharps ,“ which should have been shortened enormously, or omitted entirely and thus filling the gap. ”It described it as annoying also Chaossphere from the Diabolical Conquest Webzine, but both see the following Life, Death and the Here After as compensatory. The interlude and the intro were described by Keith of The Metal Observer as to be ignored, the album, however, as “a worthy addition to the collection of every Pagan / Black fan”, but he could not imagine “that it will end up of the year will end up in too many top ten lists or otherwise make big waves. "
Metalglory's Vynter Vombat describes the album as "an elusive record". The album seemed "like a piece" and vocally "was extremely successful as usual, as both the choirs with their elegy and the screeching with its archaic and unbridled rage can impress across the board". It is "[...] finally [...] a big disc", but it lacks "the last spark of tragic, epic atmosphere". Still, all of the band's friends would certainly like it. He renounces the frequent comparisons with Bathory, the band "probably deserves to be called an independent band instead of constantly comparing them to Bathory". While the reverb "favors" the atmosphere in his opinion, according to Michael Meyer from Bloodchamber.de "the sound is not exactly the best, which is particularly evident in the black phases of the record. Undynamic, unpressurized and washed out, a real annoyance that sometimes spoils the enjoyment of the album a bit. "In his opinion, the album would have been " an absolute hammerwork " with a better sound than its predecessor Headcult . In retrospect, the editors of Bloodchamber.de "[a] owing to the not always very clear circumstances at the time this text was published or because of the statements, actions and relationships of the musicians concerned [...] that were not known until later" [...] expressly distanced themselves from any National Socialist way of thinking or propaganda ".
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Hendrik Brinkmann: CD Review: Morrigan - Welcome To Samhain ( Memento from October 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ a b c Vynter Vombat: Morrigan (Germany) "Welcome To Samhain" CD .
- ↑ a b Chaossphere: Morrigan - Welcome To Samhain .
- ↑ Keith: Review - MORRIGAN - Welcome To Samhain .
- ↑ a b Michael Meyer: Morrigan - Weltcome To Samhain .