LEDO TAKAS RECORDS

Brand, Larm website [USA]:

Right, Ledo Takas - same as the old 'zine. This 7" is limited to 666 hand-numbered copies, and was nicely pressed on violet vinyl. The packaging is incredible! So uniquely dark and brooding! The cover reminds me of a bleaker version of the Ancient 7" even.
Musically, the band has changed ever so slightly. Venomous's vocals are slightly more high pitched and pissed off sounding now, for example. Sounding almost like the fellow from Sammath, but with more control.
Musically, the band have taken the Bathory influence and moved away from it, and done the same thing with the typical Lithuanian keyboard bits. 'Mighose' reminds me of the first Immortal LP: mid-paced with the occasional blast (such as on 'Dvasios is amziu senu'), but still overflowing with tight and 'cold' sounding Northern style riffs. 'Genocidas', an instrumental, uses military style march drumming, backed by the heavy guitars, which is an obvious break from the rest of the recording.
A solid release. Nothing to make the mind shake with awe or other emotions, but still solid black metal from the quality Baltic scene.

Ferdi, Alternative zine [Turkey]:

Oh, no! I don't want to listen this. Bad sounded pagan black metal with shitly drum sound & drummer. I think that they didn't find a productor + money... [1 / 7]

Francesco Palumbo, Vampiria magazine [Italy]:

It is a long time I know this band, since their debut demo "Juodo Menulio Pasveikinta" that surely was an average Black Metal tape with Folk reminiscences. They continue on the same way to propose their slow, sick Black Metal with harsh vocals and very underground production in the typical Norse style but the Folk influences now seem to be not so present as they were in the debut release. This tape (I remind you that it is available on 7”EP too at the same address of Ledo Takas Rec.) features some pretty old songs, some of them have been composed during the years 1995, 1996 and so on. Surely this doesn't help in giving the right idea of what the band is now, but I think that is enough to have my own opinion and confirming that they are an average band and nothing more. Above all technically I find some limits. To close it I point out the presence of the Venom's classic Countess Bathory. [55/100]

Hector Noble Fernandez, She Divine And Existence Libertine website [Spain]:

The music: bellicose old (but their darkness isn't obsolete at all) black metal. A group that manages to imprint personality to their music without breaking in the slightest the rules of old black metal (although formerly they were more melodic); theirs is not a black metal characterized by vertigo velocities (far from it), since all their splendour and power is obtained by appealing to the 80's. A total old black metal genocide with obvious thrash and heavy metal influences; praising darkness, destruction and war. Very important to notice the production and the searched sound: sharp and cutting; with compositions giving an archaic and primitive musical sensation off; recreating a side drum military effect, like a march, by means of a particular rhythmic accentuation, that justifies that drums sound (and execution); so coarse and sharp. [7,8/10]

Nagel, Lords Of Winter webzine [France]:

Trois ans apres une premiere démo au nom aussi long qu'imprononcable, le trio Lituanien a sorti chez Ledo Takas ce «miglose», qui signifie en bon francais «dans la brume». L'enregistrement (7 morceaux pour 19 minutes) s'avere plutot plaisant, proposant un black aux accents thrash qui change assez de la tendance pagan/folk majoritaire des pays baltes et norsecore de leurs voisins scandinaves.
L'intro est typique de la scene black balte (j'ai en tete Nahash, Valefar et Anubi), comportant un léger coté cheap au niveau des claviers mais une ambiance suffisamment étrange pour convaincre et séduire au final. «Karo ugnys» se fait assez basique et thrashy pour débuter, avec des riffs est une batterie sonnant vraiment old school. «Miglose» rentre ensuite un peu plus dans le tas avec un rythme plus dynamique et des riffs plus lourds, le tout surplombé d'un chant black assez crédible dans ses intonations. «Dvasios» se fait un peu plus martial par le biais de la batterie et atmosphérique au niveau des riffs, peu acérés, complété par l'utilisation en son milieu d'un chant clair alcoolisé qui ferait sourire les détracteurs de celui de Nergal dans Grom! Suit ensuite la seconde face, avec un «genocidas» répondant a «karo ugnis» par un aspect thrash et «dvasios» pour l'aspect martial (la batterie vous rappelle immanquablement le tambour de guerre marchant vers le front). « Būk prakeiktas » se fait quand a lui assez accrocheur, par un mid tempo relativement puissant et une voix black tres en avant. Pour conclure l'enregistrement, un classique qui ne dépareille pas trop au final de la musique de Dissimulation, le fameux «countess bathory» de Venom; d'habitude massacré (sauf peut etre pour la version d'Unleashed), le trio a évité le pire et a su bien retranscrire le coté rock et sombre du morceau, tout en restant suffisamment original.
Au final, Dissimulation ne révolutionne absolument rien au genre par cette seconde démo, mais il faut admettre que, malgré un petit coté bordélique (voir «genocidas») ou redondant, l'ensemble est assez savoureux! A noter un artwork plutot soigné et une traduction des textes en anglais, apportant un petit plus non négligeable. [4 / 6]

Negru, Negura magazine [Romania]:

I would expected a lot more from Ledo Takas, I must say... Dissimulation plays on this really short demo [9 tracks, though about 15 minutes long] an extremely insipid death metal with some pale black touches [mostly due to the not so great vocals]. The cover though looks great, pro-printed, beautiful layout, both sides colour, lyrics and everything. It's way over the quality of the actual music.

Roberto Martinelli, Maelstrom webzine [USA]:

From the largely unknown metal depths of Lithuania comes this three-man project's Miglose… Dissimulation delivers slow, dark black metal.
Without knowing anything about Lithuanian folk music, I would guess that there are traditional music influences in Dissimulation's material, as some of the riffs have those unmistakable signatures that signal "folk music influence!"
The playing and recording sound very amateur, but not of the kind that makes you write the album off as shit. On the contrary, Dissimulation manages to make their less than perfect technique appealing on a limited level. While none of the material is anything really to take note of, the album is a decent effort.
Miglose… features five songs, one of which is an instrumental, and a good misty intro to kick the album off. The vocals are also respectable, as singer/bassist Venomous uses a gruff beer-swillin' style that still fits in the category of black metal. It is only when Venomous tries to do anything even approaching vocal melody that things get hairy.
The strangest thing about this 7" is that it's supposed to be played at 33rpm. Unless the 45rpm/33rpm button on my turntable got inverted somehow while I was sleeping, playing this 7" at 45 makes you sense that something's amiss when you notice the vocals have that tell-tale Alvin and the Chipmunks effect to them. It's too bad, too, cause the record actually sounds cooler at the faster speed: the riffs sound folkier, and the drumming is more cold. Well, there's nothing to stop you from playing it at 45 and pretending not to notice anything peculiar.

Scribe, Metalland webzine [France]:

Décidément, la Lituanie recele beaucoup de talents cachés, et ce ne sont pas les p'tits gars de DISSIMULATION qui viendront me contredire. Imitant leurs voisins scandinaves, ce groupe s'est engouffré dans la breche Black et compte bien y faire son trou. Les compos comportent quelques originalités, comme par exemple des rythmes martiaux assez inhabituels dans ce style musical, et le chant est dans les normes syndicales, c'est-a-dire haineux et aigu. Le son des guitares est quant a lui a rapprocher d'un SATYRICON premiere période, et la production est minimaliste sans etre trop pourrie, ce qui garantit un son potable tout en restant dans l'esprit Black. Honnete sans etre dément, "Miglose" est un album sympathique qui permet de se faire une bonne idée de ce que sait faire DISSIMULATION. A encourager.


	Brand, Larm website [USA]: Right, Ledo Takas - same as the old 'zine. This 7" is limited to 666 hand-numbered copies, and was nicely pressed on violet vinyl. The packaging is incredible! So uniquely dark and brooding! The cover reminds me of a bleaker version of the Ancient 7" even. Musically, the band has changed ever so slightly. Venomous's vocals are slightly more high pitched and pissed off sounding now, for example. Sounding almost like the fellow from Sammath, but with more control. Musically, the band have taken the Bathory influence and moved away from it, and done the same thing with the typical Lithuanian keyboard bits. 'Mighose' reminds me of the first Immortal LP: mid-paced with the occasional blast (such as on 'Dvasios is amziu senu'), but still overflowing with tight and 'cold' sounding Northern style riffs. 'Genocidas', an instrumental, uses military style march drumming, backed by the heavy guitars, which is an obvious break from the rest of the recording. A solid release. Nothing to make the mind shake with awe or other emotions, but still solid black metal from the quality Baltic scene. Ferdi, Alternative zine [Turkey]: Oh, no! I don't want to listen this. Bad sounded pagan black metal with shitly drum sound & drummer. I think that they didn't find a productor + money... [1 / 7] Francesco Palumbo, Vampiria magazine [Italy]: It is a long time I know this band, since their debut demo "Juodo Menulio Pasveikinta" that surely was an average Black Metal tape with Folk reminiscences. They continue on the same way to propose their slow, sick Black Metal with harsh vocals and very underground production in the typical Norse style but the Folk influences now seem to be not so present as they were in the debut release. This tape (I remind you that it is available on 7”EP too at the same address of Ledo Takas Rec.) features some pretty old songs, some of them have been composed during the years 1995, 1996 and so on. Surely this doesn't help in giving the right idea of what the band is now, but I think that is enough to have my own opinion and confirming that they are an average band and nothing more. Above all technically I find some limits. To close it I point out the presence of the Venom's classic Countess Bathory. [55/100] Hector Noble Fernandez, She Divine And Existence Libertine website [Spain]: The music: bellicose old (but their darkness isn't obsolete at all) black metal. A group that manages to imprint personality to their music without breaking in the slightest the rules of old black metal (although formerly they were more melodic); theirs is not a black metal characterized by vertigo velocities (far from it), since all their splendour and power is obtained by appealing to the 80's. A total old black metal genocide with obvious thrash and heavy metal influences; praising darkness, destruction and war. Very important to notice the production and the searched sound: sharp and cutting; with compositions giving an archaic and primitive musical sensation off; recreating a side drum military effect, like a march, by means of a particular rhythmic accentuation, that justifies that drums sound (and execution); so coarse and sharp. [7,8/10] Nagel, Lords Of Winter webzine [France]: Trois ans apres une premiere démo au nom aussi long qu'imprononcable, le trio Lituanien a sorti chez Ledo Takas ce «miglose», qui signifie en bon francais «dans la brume». L'enregistrement (7 morceaux pour 19 minutes) s'avere plutot plaisant, proposant un black aux accents thrash qui change assez de la tendance pagan/folk majoritaire des pays baltes et norsecore de leurs voisins scandinaves. L'intro est typique de la scene black balte (j'ai en tete Nahash, Valefar et Anubi), comportant un léger coté cheap au niveau des claviers mais une ambiance suffisamment étrange pour convaincre et séduire au final. «Karo ugnys» se fait assez basique et thrashy pour débuter, avec des riffs est une batterie sonnant vraiment old school. «Miglose» rentre ensuite un peu plus dans le tas avec un rythme plus dynamique et des riffs plus lourds, le tout surplombé d'un chant black assez crédible dans ses intonations. «Dvasios» se fait un peu plus martial par le biais de la batterie et atmosphérique au niveau des riffs, peu acérés, complété par l'utilisation en son milieu d'un chant clair alcoolisé qui ferait sourire les détracteurs de celui de Nergal dans Grom! Suit ensuite la seconde face, avec un «genocidas» répondant a «karo ugnis» par un aspect thrash et «dvasios» pour l'aspect martial (la batterie vous rappelle immanquablement le tambour de guerre marchant vers le front). « Būk prakeiktas » se fait quand a lui assez accrocheur, par un mid tempo relativement puissant et une voix black tres en avant. Pour conclure l'enregistrement, un classique qui ne dépareille pas trop au final de la musique de Dissimulation, le fameux «countess bathory» de Venom; d'habitude massacré (sauf peut etre pour la version d'Unleashed), le trio a évité le pire et a su bien retranscrire le coté rock et sombre du morceau, tout en restant suffisamment original. Au final, Dissimulation ne révolutionne absolument rien au genre par cette seconde démo, mais il faut admettre que, malgré un petit coté bordélique (voir «genocidas») ou redondant, l'ensemble est assez savoureux! A noter un artwork plutot soigné et une traduction des textes en anglais, apportant un petit plus non négligeable. [4 / 6] Negru, Negura magazine [Romania]: I would expected a lot more from Ledo Takas, I must say... Dissimulation plays on this really short demo [9 tracks, though about 15 minutes long] an extremely insipid death metal with some pale black touches [mostly due to the not so great vocals]. The cover though looks great, pro-printed, beautiful layout, both sides colour, lyrics and everything. It's way over the quality of the actual music. Roberto Martinelli, Maelstrom webzine [USA]: From the largely unknown metal depths of Lithuania comes this three-man project's Miglose… Dissimulation delivers slow, dark black metal. Without knowing anything about Lithuanian folk music, I would guess that there are traditional music influences in Dissimulation's material, as some of the riffs have those unmistakable signatures that signal "folk music influence!" The playing and recording sound very amateur, but not of the kind that makes you write the album off as shit. On the contrary, Dissimulation manages to make their less than perfect technique appealing on a limited level. While none of the material is anything really to take note of, the album is a decent effort. Miglose… features five songs, one of which is an instrumental, and a good misty intro to kick the album off. The vocals are also respectable, as singer/bassist Venomous uses a gruff beer-swillin' style that still fits in the category of black metal. It is only when Venomous tries to do anything even approaching vocal melody that things get hairy. The strangest thing about this 7" is that it's supposed to be played at 33rpm. Unless the 45rpm/33rpm button on my turntable got inverted somehow while I was sleeping, playing this 7" at 45 makes you sense that something's amiss when you notice the vocals have that tell-tale Alvin and the Chipmunks effect to them. It's too bad, too, cause the record actually sounds cooler at the faster speed: the riffs sound folkier, and the drumming is more cold. Well, there's nothing to stop you from playing it at 45 and pretending not to notice anything peculiar. Scribe, Metalland webzine [France]: Décidément, la Lituanie recele beaucoup de talents cachés, et ce ne sont pas les p'tits gars de DISSIMULATION qui viendront me contredire. Imitant leurs voisins scandinaves, ce groupe s'est engouffré dans la breche Black et compte bien y faire son trou. Les compos comportent quelques originalités, comme par exemple des rythmes martiaux assez inhabituels dans ce style musical, et le chant est dans les normes syndicales, c'est-a-dire haineux et aigu. Le son des guitares est quant a lui a rapprocher d'un SATYRICON premiere période, et la production est minimaliste sans etre trop pourrie, ce qui garantit un son potable tout en restant dans l'esprit Black. Honnete sans etre dément, "Miglose" est un album sympathique qui permet de se faire une bonne idée de ce que sait faire DISSIMULATION. A encourager.