SUMMONING

Release Year: 2001
Artist Origin: AUT
Style: mysterious epic atmospheric black metal

on the fifth full-length album the Austrian duo continues dramatic evolution of their unique sound beyond the boundaries of traditional black metal, employing a thoroughly synthesizer-based, computer-constructed approach in which sharp guitars and harsh vocals are no longer the main elements but rather particular parts of specific texture that sustains an atmospheric narrative built on rhythmically ordered sequences and heroic, grandeur-like mood, allowing the music function as an epic sound chronicle, where darkness takes on a symbolic, metaphysical hue, turning this eight-part offering into a link between different forms of expression - black metal becomes the means to create a world where sound turns into an unwritten story; recent Austrian repress comes with authentic design