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Band Name Aäkon Këëtrëh
Album Name The Dark Winter
Type Demo
Data de lançamento 1997
Labels Self-Produced
Estilo de MúsicaAmbiant Black
Membros têm este álbum11

Tracklist

1. Untitled 03:17
2. Untitled 05:12
3. Untitled 01:45
4. Untitled 02:26
5. Untitled 03:16
6. Untitled 01:04
7. Untitled 01:41
8. Untitled 01:49
9. Untitled 01:00
10. Untitled 03:04
11. Untitled 01:22
12. Untitled 01:24
13. Untitled 01:12
14. Untitled 01:17
15. Untitled 03:45
Total playing time 33:34

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Aäkon Këëtrëh



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Crítica @ giganticbrain

10 Agosto 2008
I stumbled across this album when searching on Google Image search for "dark winter". I took a gander at it, and I ecstatically grabbed myself a copy of it.

What could possibly go wrong ?! A demo album, dark ambient, ultra-black metal album art, and a promising title.
Right ? Wrong.
What I got was an unorganized jumbled mess of simple dark ambient and occasionally a distorted guitar. And all of this was lo-fi to the point where the sound started getting distorted, the obvious sound of a cassette recording. Unfortunately, I can't reference any of the songs, because Aäkon Këëtrëh decided that he was too good for actual song titles. Either that, or he's just purely lazy.

If your going to make dark ambient, it expected that the quality should be good, as to envelope the listener (the definition of ambient music). This does anything but envelope me. No, I take that back. It envelopes me with anger and eventually gives me a headache. The bass-deprived music in the album sounds like it was recorded in the basement of a black metal teenager elitist's basement of his parents on a Fisher Price microphone. That's about as typical as it gets. Now, I'm not trying to go against the natural circle of life in the world of black metal, but it's time to bring something new to the table, and Aäkon Këëtrëh, sure as hell, isn't doing anything to help that.

Also, Aäkon Këëtrëh needs to be a tad bit more organized with his music. It's sounds sometimes that he's hitting random notes. Maybe that's not organization and just pure lack of skill at the instrument that he's playing (which is just about all of them), but whichever one it is, he needs to work on it.
Also, parts come in at random times. Aäkon Këëtrëh doesn't seem to get the concept of symmetry… this is very important in music (or else, the listener won't know what the fuck is going on). For example, he'd doing something like this :
Song begins with two measures of an acoustic guitar, then a piano would come in. That goes for 3 measures and then a distorted guitar cuts in. See ?

All in all, this album was quite lame, even if it was dedicated to the guy from Mutiilation (as I can barely read from Metal Archives).
My tip to the artist, go out and buy a new microphone, get outta your parent's basement, and learn the instruments you so crudely try to play in this album a little better.

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Eyvindr - 10 Agosto 2008: I think there are very any who disagee with this statement.
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